For the past several years, I have experimented with several ways to create different graphics. My first experience with a paint program was when I was very young, and I can barely remember it. There was an application on a very old computer compared to these ones out now. The computer only had two colors if I remember blue and white. The paint program had the standard tools: a paintbrush, a pencil, a spray can, line maker, etc.

Past that point we got our first "better" computer, a Windows 95 that was later upgraded to Windows 97. The paint program forced me to use creativity to create the graphics with the limited tools available. I still have several of the images I drew back then, and I consider them quite well-down given what I was able to work with!

Then I got my first taste of a fancy editor, Paint Shop Pro 7. It allowed me to create several whiz-bang photo effects on various gradient tools, and I got to experiment with using layers. However, I did not go too far past that, much of anything else was beyond what I could think about and was interested in learning.

However, after I cleaned up my computer (namely backed up data and then reformatted) I lost my Paint Shop Pro 7. School had started and I joined an extra elective Computer Arts class. I was given the opportunity to learn another graphics program in that class. Adobe Photoshop CS became my new best friend. Upon learning how the main functions worked, I experimented with it myself, developed my own methods and filled in anything I didn't know about the program already. Pretty soon, I was very well familiarized with it and able to use it to get astonishing things done.

Some of the main things that I have created as an artist were for some people at forums that I regularly visit. I opened a thread and began accepting requests for signatures and avatars from other people. Not only that, but for different competitions in that, as well as well as other forums, I have produced little graphical trophies for. You will see all of those here as well.