Art and Graphic Design

Art for the real world

Hardware & software requirements for Arts and Humanities online courses

Required hardware for all classes

  • A computer with microphone input
  • Sound output
  • Camera input or attached web camera.

NOTE: If your computer doesn’t have a microphone or camera you could use a smart phone or tablet for the video conferencing.

  • A high speed internet connection. 

 

Review each tab for software requirements for each course:

Lecture only classes
Graphics
Animation &  Motion Graphics

 Software Requirements

 Software Requirements

  • Adobe Creative Cloud software (Photoshop, InDesign, etc)

NOTE: Following the COVID-19 outbreak Adobe provided LMC students with a semester-length license free of charge. They may or may not repeat the offer for Fall 2020. 

The Foundation for Community Colleges is offering a semester license to Creative Cloud for $39.00.  store.collegebuys.org/

 Software Requirements

  • Adobe Creative Cloud software (Photoshop, InDesign, etc)

NOTE: Following the COVID-19 outbreak Adobe provided LMC students with a semester-length license free of charge. They may or may not repeat the offer for Fall 2020. 

  • Expand for system requirements

    Technical Details Table (minimum required)

        Art Humanities Art Studio Graphics Animation Motion Video
    Phone / Tablet (a smart phone or tablet manufactured in the last 2 years)            
    Laptop / Desktop          
    Processor 4- 6 core processor (Intel I5+ / AMD Ryzen 5+)            
    Operating system Windows 10+ / Mac OS 10.14+                
    RAM 4 GB+ of RAM            
      8 GB+ of RAM          
      16 GB+ of RAM          
    GPU 2 GB+ of VRAM (Open GL 2.0+) Intel GPU            
      2 GB dedicated video card          
      4 GB+ of VRAM
    Intel GPU (not recommended, has issues for any video and or animation, Maya)
    recommended cards
    Nvidia GTX 1600+/ RTX 260+
    Radeon RX570+
             
    Hard disk space 1TB standard drive (spinning magnetic disk)             not ideal
      solid state HDD (256GB+)              
      External drive (500GB+ SSD preferred for video and animation)          
    Internet Reliable internet connection (no data penalty recommended)                
    Software Adobe Creative Suite            
      Autodesk Maya / Mudbox          
    MISC Webcam (on laptop or desktop or cell. phone)                
      Headphone or earbuds w/ mic          
      dependable cell phone for photo/video of projects              
      3 button travel  mouse (to plug in at school)