Introduction
Putting things together
My discovery of Photoshop came after I worked as a graphic designer and art director for a few years. Back then, in the pre-desktop publishing days, we learned to put things together from different sources. Photostats, illustrations, and typesetting all got pasted onto boards to create press-ready artwork. I think that the idea of putting stuff together is something that has always stuck with me, regardless of what it is exactly that I’m using or where it came from.
People are often surprised to hear me, as a digital artist, say that the computer is place to create finished ideas, not to develop one or brainstorm. But for me that is true. The computer introduces constraints in terms of interaction and reduces ...
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