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I would highly suggest the following Books/Films: Start by showing the students how you work and let them use that as a launching point.

Just remember that there is not right way to do anything in art. The goal is to get the students up to speed so that they can begin to develop their own style. It is formated with the professors sharing their design work with the students, and teaching their personal techniques. This was easily my favorite class I have ever taken. Here at WWU in my department all design majors are required to take a course called 'Introduction to Design Communication,' this is a basic overview art course that teaches drawing, painting, illustration, and drafting.

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I would suggest that you use the format of assigning work and teaching skills on monday, free work for the middle of the week, and then on friday have the students show their work to the class and discuss their experiences. Give the students a photo to manipulate and have them show their work to the class. I come from a technical drawing background and find that AutoCad is my favorite vector drawing program, although it is very-much overkill.ДЄfter vector drawing I would introduce them to photo manipulation, take inspiration from the photoshop contests. It should be pretty easy though to adapt existing self learning tutorials for your students.ДЇor learning 2D I would suggest a brief intro to vector drawing, using Illustrator, or my personal preference AutoCad.

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Look into a site license for photoshop it is really not as extravagantly expensive in an educational license as the commercial ones.ДЄs for a pre-made curriculum, I suspect that you're SOL. I for one don't like Gimp, although it is a powerful tool, it lacks some of the most powerful and useful tools available for photoshop. Have them come up with a project, I would highly suggest starting with a building, as it is much easier to deal with than modeling living things. I can speak for learning blender, and the tutorials are pretty good, I would start by walking them through the building a castle tutorial, and then pretty much set them free. I like to approach art education form a goal oriented standpoint.

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In the grand scheme of things, both free and non-free software needs a lot of work to improve in the HCI area. It's more about familiar layout than anything. As for the UI side of things, it would be an interesting project to develop an alternative Gimp interface designed for current Photoshop users.

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At the rate that Gimp and Blender are improving, there will soon be no valid technical reason why they cannot be used even for the most professional of tasks. The key is educating the next generation on F/OSS tools from the beginning so that we can finally move away from the rip-off proprietary standbys.

But I find it just as difficult to use Photoshop after years of using Gimp, so I can understand where they're coming from. People sometimes scoff at the new generation of F/OSS graphics software because it's not what they're used to. It takes just as much time to learn Photoshop and Lightwave as it does to learn Gimp and Blender. if its to engage others, I'd stay away from most Free and Open Source apps.Д«TW - I cut my teeth in 3D using POVRay on a 486DX (it was soooooooo slow on the SX), so I hope I'm geek enough not to be considered a troll. If the goal is to engage geeks - this is a good idea. To a techie? its a bit infuriating at times because you can't do everything you want to do, but to others its a godsend if you can afford one (that and I generally have a terminal window open at all times so the interface doesn't get on my nerves so bad :-)

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And I use a Mac for my personal needs - why? because it was set up to be invisible to the end user. I run a programming / research office for my university, but I still make more money through music activities.

I'm on the other end.I'm an artist first and foremost, and a geek secondary. I've seen a LOT of great sutff come out of it, but almost always, the person on the other end has been a techie first and foremost and an artist second. I've shown them things like Gimp and they just scoff - and its understandable why they do so.ДЇ/OSS software is generally software designed by geeks for use by geeks. I've got good friends that make their entire living with this stuff. How many artists want to use an app that is more in line with geeks than actual true artists.