Techniques, Collections and Expositions of Digital Art

For those who are less familiar with the concept, digital art is reserved almost exclusively for pictures taken to be modified by photo editing programs on the computer. In 1990, Kodak began the transformation of art photography, the transition to digital camera with the release of DCS 100. Art prints, printing digital images on canvas or paper is the final form of digital creations.

Using brushes in electronic versions, filters, numerous sources of information and techniques, digital artists such as painters, designers, graphic artists, architects or only amateurs are now creating images that were 20 years ago impossible by traditional methods. There are many computer programs that process and can modify digital images at the user’s will. The most common operations are: color optimization, contrast and brightness, crop, placement in a digital frame, zooming, compression, increasing or decreasing sharpness and a whole lot of other changes and artistic effects. Many of them are based really simple actions developed in Photoshop. This is now a faster and much cheaper way of creating modern art whether it is an obscure or an abstract painting or a stunning landscape.

One of the major benefits digital art presents is that most digital artists do not need any photography course or art course and they just need imagination and vision. As to another advantage to the development of digital art is the distribution of pictures and their storage, there are a lot of photography sites on which amateurs or artists compete in their creations or just display the beautiful scenes they captured.

The digital art and art prints are accepted as legitimate creations and on an international level, many museums began to collect pieces of digital art and most of them hold significant collections gathered from professionals but not only. The most famous museums with this profile are LACDA, the Center for Digital Art from Los Angeles and the Digital Art Museum from Berlin.