Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

Online Digital Design diploma requirements

As a prerequisite for admission to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh — Online Division, students must be a high school graduate with a minimum, cumulative, final high school CGPA of 2.0 or higher, or hold a General Education Development GED Certificate, or associate's degree or higher.

Software requirements

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• Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription (Contains Adobe Acrobat Professional, After Effects, Animate, Audition, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere Pro)
• Microsoft Office Professional (Version 2010 or higher) or Microsoft Office University 365
• Antivirus Software (Latest Version)
• Skype (Recommended)

Recommended plugins

Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, Windows Media Player, and Java

Minimum technology requirements

• PC:Users should have systems with the following specifications: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor, Windows 7 with SP 1 or higher, 4 GB RAM (8GB recommended), 20 GB available hard disk space recommended, 1366 x 768 minimum (1920x1080 recommended) with 16-bit color, 512 MB VRAM (1GB recommended), and OpenGL 2.0-capable system.
• Mac: Users should have systems with the following specifications: Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support, *Mac OS X v. 10.7 or higher, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB available hard disk space recommended, 1366 x 768 minimum (1920x1080 recommended) with 16-bit color, 512 MB VRAM (1GB recommended), and OpenGL 2.0-capable system.
  

*Mac users must have a minimum of OS 10.7 in order to run Adobe Creative Cloud.

Web browser requirements

Windows Users: The two latest releases of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome are supported.

Mac Users: The two latest releases of Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome are supported.

Hardware Requirements

• Color Inkjet Printer
• Color Flatbed Scanner
• Digital Camera
• Mouse