Streamline Your Digital Art Lessons with These 9 Media Arts Hacks

Are you a busy art teacher juggling tight budgets and minimal prep time? If so, this series is just for YOU! Welcome to the Art of Education’s Art Room Hacks—round 2! Join Chay Ross (@chayarts_edu), a secondary art teacher in California, for all things media arts and hacks to make teaching media arts so much easier. Plus, stay tuned for a fun art lesson idea that merges literacy and technology, all about comic strips! Watch for these media arts hacks to save you valuable time and resources: ➕ Duplicate layers to experiment without fear. ⊖ Merge layers to reduce file size and streamline workflow. ⠛ Maintain even spacing with Win/Cmd + D. ⌨️ Provide keyboard shortcut cheat sheets. 🛠️ Build templates to jump straight into creating. 📸 Blur backgrounds on a cell phone with Portrait mode. 🗂️ Stay organized with automated file naming. 🎙️ Turn cell phones into microphones. 🎨 Generate a custom palette from an image. Don’t miss more innovative art medium hacks on: ✏️ Drawing, 🧵 Embroidery and Sewing, 🎨 Painting, 📸 Digital and Darkroom Photography, 🏺 Ceramics, 📄 … and Printmaking! Subscribe so you don't miss this exciting new series! Catch up on the first season of Art Room Hacks now!    • Art Room Hacks   🔎 For more art teacher resources, please visit our website. https://artofed.info/3TxUDcc 🧠 Discover more about media arts and how to incorporate this medium into your art room by enrolling in Digital Illustration and Visual Storytelling or Studio: Graphic Design. https://artofed.info/digital-illustra... https://artofed.info/studio-graphic-d... 📱 Follow along on social media for more art education tips and tricks! https://theartofeducation.edu/magazin... Facebook   / theartofed   Instagram   / theartofed   ❓ Do you have more questions? Join us in The Art of Ed Community! https://community.theartofeducation.e... #digitalart #graphicdesign #arthacks