The purchase, download and file expansion steps are just like any other download from the Internet you may have done before. It's quite easy really. However, if this is your first time, you may want to read or print our detailed instructions first.

1 - Purchase, The current price is US $19.95. The introductory price was $27. Use the "Buy it" link at the top left of most pages. Or click here to start your order. You'll be taken to the Order page. Clicking on the "Click Here to Purchase" button of the Order page will take you to the secure credit card transaction. These cards are accepted:

2 - Download

After you complete the credit card transaction, you'll receive an email confirmation and receipt. You'll also be taken to our download page, where you then download the 'Art Head Start' ebook file with the "Click Here to Download" button. Be sure to save the file to a location on your computer's hard drive which you will remember for the next step. Some Windows users find it convenient to save downloaded files to their Windows desktop.

3 - Expand

Next, for Windows users of WinZip, locate the compressed ZIP file you downloaded, ArtHeadStart10.zip, using either "My Computer or "Windows Explorer". To extract the ebook from the ZIP file, right-click on it, and select "Extract to here..." (or to some other location where you want to store your ebook).

If you are a Windows user without WinZip, Windows XP has a built in ZIP file expander. To use it, open "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" and locate the compressed ZIP file you downloaded, ArtHeadStart10.zip. To extract the ebook from the compressed ZIP file, right-click the Zip file, and then click Extract All. The Extraction Wizard will run. Specify where you want to store the extracted ebook file.

Macintosh users will probably use the most popular ZIP file extractor for the Mac, Stuffit.

If you have a problem, try downloading and using the latest version of WinZip for Windows or your favorite tool for the Macintosh - most likely Stuffit.

4 - View

PDF files, such as the 'Art Head Start' ebook are viewed by using the Adobe Acrobat reader. Many computers come with Adobe Acrobat already installed.

There are many PDF files used on web sites and in business, so it's a very handy program to have. If you don't already have Adobe Acrobat, you can download a free copy from Adobe here.

Purchasing 'Art Head Start' is pretty standard, but can vary somewhat from one vendor's web site to another's. If you buy directly from us, see above, or check out my detailed instructions. The price is usually the same everywhere.

We've taken great care to make sure our ebook PDF file and ZIP file are clean, using the best available products. And our resellers also test for any problems. If you like, you can run your own security software against the downloaded ZIP file, before opening it.

Art Head Start may be available for sale on several vendor's web sites and each may have a different refund policy. If you purchased here, then our policy, which conforms with that of our ClickBank secure transaction service, applies as follows:

First, we'd like to help you solve any problems you might be having, so we encourage you to email support@art-head-start.com or call the phone number at the bottom of this page (please note our office hours), before asking for a refund.

When you buy from here, our money back guarantee is as follows:
Your full purchase price will be refunded, during a period of 8 weeks from the purchase date, if you first let us try to help with any problem you might have.

Please request a refund by email at refunds@art-head-start.com within 8 weeks of your purchase date. Be sure to include your full name, the email address you used to make your purchase and your postal address, so we can verify your order. If we were unable to help, you will be refunded your full purchase price by U.S. Postal Service mail. You can also contact us using the information at the bottom of this page.

After a refund, the ebook can no longer be viewed legally.

We would like to know how to improve things, so any suggestions you may have will be much appreciated.

All our policies are also detailed on the Guarantee & Policies page.

'ebook' stands for 'electronic book'. It's usually a book meant to be read on your computer.

Ebooks have some advantages and some disadvantages, compared to physical books. They can contain movies, sounds and other media, as well as live links to the Web and to internal book navigation aids - very much like web pages and also very good for teaching and learning.

On the other hand, display screens have lower resolution than books, making them harder to read from. And a computer is hardly as convenient as a physical book.

Not for our ebook. It's an Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) file. You read it with the very popular and cross-platform Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Many computers come with Adobe Acrobat already installed. There are many PDF files used on web sites and in business, so it's a very handy program to have. If you don't already have it, you can download a free copy of Acrobat from Adobe here.

It's about how boost your art skills. How to communicate using images and how to do that better.

Many digital artists and digital art students don't have formal training in art or design, in visual communication. 'Art Head Start' is our way of helping to fill that void by providing much of the information you would get in an art school, plus info from the author's own extensive experience in 2D and 3D computer graphics and other image making.

We've provided a sample chapter in PDF format (be patient, takes a while to open) and a copy of the first 2 levels of our Table of Contents. There is so much information that we didn't have room to detail the lowest levels of the ebook's actual Table of Contents.

'Art Head Start' is written for digital art students and others in the computer graphics community who don't have formal art training, but would like to learn more about the practice of visual communication and how to add realism, meaning, clarity and drama to their images, without necessarily going back to school.

$19.95 in U.S. dollars. This is a new, lower price than our introductory price of $27. Marketing costs are rising, so we don't know how long we can hold this low price point. So it's to your advantage to buy right away.

Art Head Start has over 150 pages, more than 180 custom illustrations and several tables and charts.

No.

Please see author's bio.

No. In the U.S. and most other countries, when you create an original book, song or some other content, and you are not doing so as an employee, they belong to you exclusively.

Except for certain types of "fair use", such as scholarly studies or critiques, no one can use your creations without your permission - they are "copyrighted".

Copyright law is necessary to help prevent people from stealing the works of others and claiming them as their own, or even selling them as if they owned them.

Please see the U.S. Copyright Office Web site for more information on copyright.

The 'Art Head Start' ebook and the contents of this site are copyrighted. If you would like to use any of our materials, please ask us first, preferably via email at info@art-head-start.com. Thanks!

We use high technology tools to scan the Internet, e-Bay and other locations for copies of our content. We have an official copyright registration at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C. to prove our content ownership.