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- Marte Thompson

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Services I Can Render for You

Photoshop

Every design project requires expert image manipulation. Whether you are starting from scratch, or have corporate product endorsement photos already approved by your legal department, they all require professional handling.

I can take digital or scanned photos and bring them into Photoshop to edit according to the project specifications. My specialty is creating subtle, effective photo montages with the layers feature in Photoshop. But I can also handle the creation of tiny icons where every blasted pixel matters.

Of course, the "save for web" feature of Photoshop is indispensible.

Macromedia Flash

One of my favorite webdesign tools is Macromedia Flash. A clone of Director, Flash drawing tools are vector, rather than raster (pixel) based, and so it produces graphics that are rasterized by the browser on the fly. This means that the image quality is always crystal clear. Entire sites, or just key parts of sites, can be created in Flash.

Not to be outdone by Adobe, Macromedia provides every imaginable design tool for the ultimate in cutting edge webdesign. More than just an animation tool, Flash has evolved into a complete webdevelopment studio.

I knew that when Macromedia merged with Allaire (Coldfusion and Homesite) there would be a new generation of software second to none.

Illustrator

In 1997, I created over 200 Adobe Illustrator drawings that were published in technical white papers, Powerpoint presentations, and online for the release of Oracle 8. I have also drawn a great many technical illustrations for Lockheed (1986-93) Loral (1995) and Northrop Grumman (1996).

HTML

Since 1999, I have been a fulltime webdesigner, bringing both my raster (pixel) and vector skillsets to the web. I handcode HTML and DHTML plus Javascript, and I am very familiar with Cascading Style Sheets. I prefer to handcode, but I can also use any of the WYSIWYG tools, such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, and Homesite. I also like to design Flash sites. I have been principal designer on several e-commerce websites, including an intranet portal for Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, CA.

marte48@gmail.com