In order to keep your documents, artwork, web pages, and all of your artist activities organized on your computer, you need to make folders.  And you don’t want to line your desktop with rows of folders, so you’ll need to create folders within other folders to build your artist filing system. (more…)

Word document programs and photo programs all have the two options of  “Save” or “Save As”  If you are not paying attention and you click “Save” when  you should do a “Save As”…  You could lose a file!

And many programs list the two together, so you need to pay attention to make sure to click on the correct one. (more…)

The easiest method for you to get your art images onto the computer is to take pictures with a digital camera.  Since the images that a digital camera captures is in electronic form, it is a language recognized by computers.

This language is called pixels, tiny colored squares represented by ones and zeros that make up the picture that you just took.  The images can be transferred straight from the camera to the computer via a cable or the memory card.

Let’s take a look at some factors to consider if you are thinking about buying a new camera. (more…)