Have you thought of trying your hand at designing?
With information utilizing Both Photoshop (7+) and Paint Shop Pro
this course should help you achieve your dream!


Due to the extensive information supplied in this course
NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN AT ANY TIME.

Sessions are ongoing and are completed 'at your own pace' (with a suggested time frame of 8 weeks)

Here are some of the topics that will be covered in the course :

Lessons detailing ways to verify the quality, detail accuracy
and legal copyright of all your available resources.
(including resources from your computer, 'found' and purchased tools)
Industry Standards
File types and Saving sizes
Copyrighted Items and Fonts and Piracy
Checking your tools
Quality Control
Creating a TOU ,antipiracy ad, visual TOU
Standard Product Packaging and Logo Creation
Color theory and color palettes
Making sure that your monitor correctly adjusted
Defining your style,
Finding Inspiration
suggested creative areas to explore
Essential items for a good kit
Preview Making
Product Packaging and Logo Creation
Kit naming and standard file naming
Product pricing
Writing a product description
Blogging 101
Promoting your Designs through all available means
(Creative Teams, and all other advertising areas)
Creating 'blinkies' and banners
Basic design principles for the following items:
creating a brush
creating a pattern
creating a texture
creating an overlay
making a paper using all of these techniques
creating some standard basic elements and the
basic techniques of creation that can be applied to create
hundreds of others
Critique and limited one on
one coaching is available
creating a kit from beginning to end
with critique using all lessons applied
FTP basics
applying to a store
1 hour weekly live video chats in the DDA chatroom for discussion and Q&A.
One on one tutoring available by appointment for additional inquiries.
questions answered via e-mail as well and through
online Question Center Forum for each lesson
Online lesson review quizzes,
multiple opportunities for student interaction
student blogs through DDA
Numerous links to online resources available to assist you as a designer

Yahoo instant messaging service will be used for One-on-One coaching services

Alumni Membership Reinstatement Fee Clause

if you choose to suspend your $5/mo. membership for a period of time and renew it later, the renewal fee will be 5 dollars per suspended month from your last access date up to three months.

If your membership has lapsed for more than three months, the full course fee will be required to re-join.