Every so often, I think back to figure out why I made the choices to get where I am today. I can thank a great high school graphic arts program for helping me to get my first real job after high school, and that first job for introducing me to the world of computer graphics. After a decade in the trenches, I loved the cutting edge, and was primed to write about it. My writing has always been about sharing knowledge and helping folks learn how to get things done.

I initially got my feet wet in computer graphics in the newspaper industry. This was before the advent of the Mac and PC. It was all mini-computers back then. I soon transitioned to the corporate world and was doing some fairly sophisticated graphics stuff with mainframe output when the desktop publishing revolution dawned in the mid-eighties.

We initially scoffed, but Adobe, Aldus, Apple, and Linotype quickly changed our world. Bringing the first Apple into a corporate IBM shop was a real trip. I’ve laughed about it ever since, but those were some scary days, lemmetellya.

(I’ll share that story tomorrow…)

My first foray into writing books was happenstance. I was in the right place at the right time, and CorelDRAW was the right program to write about. Soldiering through six editions of that book changed my life. But through it all, the mission was clear: help my readers get their jobs to print.

While it’s been some time since I wrote a step-by-step graphics tutorial, I have penned more than a few pieces about getting thing printed over the last couple of years…

• Business card printing tips
• Postcard printing tips
• Color printing tips
• Print-on-demand tips
• T-shirt printing tips
• Digital photo printing tips

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