After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the third course in the series. If you have a general understanding of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course will continue to help you understand musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into an intermediate level of harmony and ear training. The course will introduce you to new key signatures, and explore how they are constructed. You will continue to train your ear, learning to differentiate between the various intervals and chords that were explored in Developing Your Musicianship I and II. You will learn how to borrow chords from parallel tonalities (modal interchange), and how to write more common chord progressions. The course culminates with an assignment that asks you to compose and perform a composition using popular chord progressions. As with Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course is designed to share the joy of creating music.

Course 4: Introduction to Research for Essay Writing This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper. After completing this course, you will be able to: - choose appropriate research topics for college classes - write detailed outlines for research papers - find source material for research papers - take and organize good notes for research - use appropriate academic tone and language - document sources by creating a Works Cited list in MLA format - avoid plagiarizing your sources

Adobe Photoshop can be a useful tool in editing digital photography, but it can also be an overwhelming program to learn how to use. In this guided project, learners will walk through a step by step process to gain the basics of how to crop and resize images in Adobe Photoshop. First, learners will prepare Adobe Photoshop and images for cropping and resizing. Then, learners will walk through the basics of using the Crop tool in Photoshop. Next, learners will gain an understanding about how to edit images using more advanced cropping features. Then, learners will move on to understand and edit the Image Size. Finally, learners will be guided through some advanced features to resize images in Photoshop. Learners will finish this guided project with the skills to crop and resize images in Adobe Photoshop.

Digital Fashion Mindset is a collaboration between Parsons School of Design at The New School and The Digital Fashion Group Academy. This course teaches you to recognize the significance of the digital revolution in historical and present-day contexts and how it relates to the fashion industry’s ability to use technology creatively and collaboratively. Digital Fashion Mindset teaches you to recognize the significance of the digital revolution in historical and present-day contexts and how it relates to the fashion industry’s ability to use technology creatively and collaboratively. In this course, you will learn about the effects of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the automation of textile production, which allowed the commercial sale of clothing. You will examine the digital revolution and how data collection and smart devices have changed the climate of fashion in all aspects of business. You will discuss key players in the industry who have adopted the digital mindset and how they embrace 3D software to minimize waste, reinvent sustainable production processes, and decrease costly physical labor. Throughout the course, you will see the effects the digital world and digital empowerment have on fashion, and the way it is redefining the industry for designers, entrepreneurs, and consumers. At the end of the course, you will use the knowledge you have gained into the digital mindset to create a compelling Digital Fashion Mindset Vision Statement and develop your own approach to digitalization by comparing the potential of digitalization in your own practice.

During this project, you’ll use marquee tools, quick selection tools, and other selection tools to select, mask, and combine multiple images into a single composite. By the end of the project, you’ll be comfortable building selections of objects and people, two extremely useful abilities in Photoshop.

In this project, you will learn how to start using Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based design program in which you can design anything from logos, symbols, icons, patterns, compositions for posters, web, social media, and any other marketing material you want to create. You will know the main software tools and their uses to be able to create different arts for marketing purposes. Knowing the basics of graphic design is a great added value to any professional today. You can extend your opportunities in the professional world with the right tools. Today we will be creating a simple logo using the key tools in Adobe Illustrator and you will be able to customize yours. If you are a creative person and with a lot of desire to do things out of the box this is the pro With the tools that you will learn today you will be able to create any art, get excited!

In this course you will explore concepts and approaches involved in creating successful character designs that can be applied to video games. Following a first week delving into some foundational concepts for successful character design, each of the remaining three weeks are structured as a master class where you will observe three professional character designers at work in the studio: Andy Ristaino (Adventure Time), Jacky Ke Jiang (Journey), and Robertryan Cory (SpongeBob SquarePants). Each designer will take on two different design challenges on the fly and address the various issues in designing characters for games, such as movement, expression, and technical limitations. At the end of each week you will have an opportunity to try out some of the concepts from that week's lesson on characters of your own design. This is a fun and engaging class especially useful for students interested in animation in film and TV as well as games, and is suitable for students of any drawing ability.

Have you ever been glancing through a magazine, or walking down the street when a flash of color catches your eye? It’s something that stands out amidst the din of the pages, or the monotony of a rural street. This is the power of Adobe Photoshop. A power that is limited only by your imagination. Every color of the rainbow (and many that aren’t) are at your fingertips. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can wield this incredible array of colors to bring your imagination to life, whatever form it takes. In this project, you will learn how to use the Color Picker tool, change its color selection as you see fit, and create swatches that you have only seen before in the depths of your dreams. If that sounds like something that interests you, a single step towards unleashing the power of your creativity, then join me in taking this step in your journey.

Want to know how some of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists made abstract paintings? This course offers an in-depth, hands-on look at the materials, techniques, and thinking of seven New York School artists, including Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko. Through studio demonstrations and gallery walkthroughs, you’ll form a deeper understanding of what a studio practice means and how ideas develop from close looking, and you’ll gain a sensitivity to the physical qualities of paint. Readings and other resources will round out your understanding, providing broader cultural, intellectual, and historical context about the decades after World War II, when these artists were active. The works of art you will explore in this course may also serve as points of departure to make your own abstract paintings. You may choose to participate in the studio exercises, for which you are invited to post images of your own paintings to the discussion boards, or you may choose to complete the course through its quizzes and written assessments only. Learners who wish to participate in the optional studio exercises may need to purchase art supplies. A list of suggested materials is included in the first module. Learning Objectives: Learn about the materials, techniques, and approaches of seven New York School artists who made abstract paintings. Trace the development of each artist’s work and studio practice in relation to broader cultural, intellectual, and historical contexts in the decades after World War II. Hone your visual analysis skills. Use each artist’s works as a point of departure for making your own abstract paintings.

By the end of this project, you will create an animated GIF to be used in social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter using Adobe Photoshop CC. Throughout the tasks, you will be able to Create Video layers, create animation from layers, import videos to the photoshop timeline, create tradition-like animation, and finally, you will know how to export this animation in GIF format with different sizes and dimensions to fit different social media platforms and posts types like reels, stories, and normal posts. This guided project is for intermediate designers since we will develop from the basic knowledge of designing tools in photoshop like brush tools, Layer styles, and drawing basic shapes, also designers who are familiar with Animation and Timeline panel. This project will provide you with the ability to create Animated GIFs that can be used on social media platforms based on the amazing designing capabilities in photoshop which merge the fourth dimension to your creativity which is TIME. Knowing how to make animated visuals elevates your opportunities in many promising fields like e-learning, Retail business, SEO, and of course Social media! Photoshop is a very powerful designing tool with multiple built-in image processing tools and effects that can elevate your production, especially with the animation features. Photoshop also is compatible with all other Applications from Adobe which makes the integration more efficient and effective.