Cyber Atelier: a creative learning environment assisting non-professional multimedia productions

“Cyber Atelier” is a creative learning environment that draws upon art history and design principles to assist non-professionals in producing better images. This environment relies on abstracting expert practices from art masterpieces in order to help the users achieve the required level of control over the image creation process. More specifically, colors, textures, compositions, and so on, are utilized to effectively convey the intended artistic message. We propose a set of tools and a database of multimedia elements