With further investigation it is clear to me that I will have better luck working with Flickr than with the tools available through Photoshop.com. I enjoyed looking at tutorials and examples from Photoshop tools likeLightroom3 and Adobe Illustrator CS5. I sent myself a dynamic "peek" at the vector artwork and perspective drawings that a student could create using this program, so that I can show it to my students and let them get excited about perspective and the possibilities of drawing on the computer, but I doubt that my school would be able to afford the price tag of $599.
I will be looking at Flickr, since it is free--at least some of it is free. I see that there are many applications within Flickr, and some of them do require a fee. I understand that I can create groups so that I control who views the web galleries of student artwork, or images of other groups of artists' work (or cultural exemplars). I can connect my high school with galleries from colleges, so that they can get a glimpse of what kinds of projects are done at the college level. I also noticed some little photo-editing games that I think would be a lot of fun for my students, such as "Photoshop Tennis," which has participants taking turns editing one image until it is completely transformed. I plan to try some of the apps to see what we can do in our "digital" art room this year.
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