About Digital Art
- Digital art is art created on a computer. There are three main categories of digital art: digital painting, digital photography and fractals. Digital art often uses software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or Corel Draw to use a palette of art tools to create, color and edit new or existing art samples such as photographs or scanned pieces. Other methods can be used and combined with these categories to create completely new methods of art creation.
- Digital painting allows the artist to create pictures and paint them in natural styles to look extremely realistic or in styles that are completely fabricated and unnatural. Digital painting can be done in 2D or 3D dimensions to capture either a painting feel or a sculpture feel.
- Digital photography starts with a picture. This can be taken with a digital camera and uploaded into a computer or a film captured photograph that is digitally scanned in. Photos can be altered, edited and adjusted in millions of ways. Whether a person wants to take the "red eye" out of a portrait or enhance the colors of a landscape, this can be done with digital photography methods.
- Fractals are computer-generated art creations. The screen saver that has a pattern scrolling around the screen is mesmerizing and is a fractal art creation. They are generated by algorithmic formulas that are mathematical equations that can be captured into a digital still or used as a free-flowing visual art.
- Digital art has helped traditional artists such as photographers and illustrators find a more cost-effective medium to play with and create in. The entertainment industry has banked billions on the use of digital art with captivating special effects such as explosions, time warps and space travel. Animation is becoming more lifelike with 3D-modeled subjects that move based on algorithmic scales. Architects and designers are able to render a realistic view of a proposed project and make adjustments based on visual observations. Art historians have also used digital art to closely scrutinize the details that make great artists great, comparing similarities across pieces by overlapping and observing the details. Digital art has made current art mediums more broad with greater applications.
