Archive for August, 2009

A Webinar Event, All Things Painter with Painter Master John Derry

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

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Digital Art Academy is proud to present a live webinar event on Friday, August 28th at 11:30 am Pacific Daylight time with Painter Master and Corel Painter Ambassador John Derry.

You design the content of this session with John! John will be taking topic submissions which you can add once you are registered for the webinar. John will organize the webinar around the most requested topics. Painting, printing, portraiture…ask away! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to ask one of the original Painter authors your questions. John will also share a few of his—shhhh!—secret Painter techniques with attendees. You come away from this session with new insights and get your creative Painter juices flowing.

Webinars are live events and easy to join, don’t miss the fun! Space is limited so sign up now.

Register Now

… and Here It Is!

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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Welcome, everyone, to the new Digital Art Academy. We’ve been hard at work for the past few months to improve the site for you all and make the experience a a lot richer and easier.

There are a ton of new features including:

  1. Redesigned Interface
  2. Global Gravatar support
  3. Global “Sticky” Navigation
  4. Personalized Student Menu with quick access links
  5. Reorganization of the main site sections
  6. New and improved course catalog
  7. Tabbed course descriptions
  8. Student Blogs – use this feature to share your work with other students
  9. Image display resizing in case you forget to resize
  10. Real buttons in forum topics
  11. Multiple image attachments in class forums (max. 5 attachments per post)

Of course there’s more – navigate around and see if you can find everything. The site as a whole should be a lot easier to use.

As with any brand new site, you may run into a bug we didn’t catch during our private beta test. Please feel free to report those to us using the contact form (please do not put bug reports in the comments section, but do let us know what you think!). Also, don’t be surprised if things change from time to time as we continue to add enhancements. This giant first step is only that – the first step – in the continued growth at DAA.

With that – have fun exploring! Registration for Session 5 classes is officially open.