My Art

		My Art
	I know what you're thinking, but no. I'm not going to use this section to brag about my art work. More to give general information about it. I mostly work in traditional media now for pictures I have drawn. almost entirely for convenience I'm afraid to say. Although I have been told coloured pencil is one of my best (If not THE best) of the media I use. Many people also tell me they prefer my digital work in Photoshop. Web design and Graphic design are new additions to my art skills, so please be patient if I don't display the knowledge of a seasoned fourty year old programmer yet. These skills mostly came about when I was given my first USB stick. My boyfriend, being a fan of Open Source Software, installed a program onto it called Portable Apps (Basically making it a computer in itself) Which came with a rather useful 'start' style menu. I began designing themes for this as well as buttons.
	Programs I Use
	For Digital Art, Graphic Design and Web Design I use Photoshop CS2. hopefully I will be upgrading to CS3 soon. I also use Dreamweaver8 and also GIMP when pictures need to be scaled down or converted to .ico format. I use a drawing tablet almost all of the time. An AIPTEK HP12000U which is more or less the same size as the computer monitor. It is a pressure sensitive drawing tablet, which comes in particularly useful when colouring in Photoshop if you set the brush properties correctly (and have the latest version of the tablet driver. I found that the pressure function did not work in PS untill I installed the newest version of the Driver for it)