Welcome to my non commercial website.The
focus of the content is mostly image editing for prepress using Adobe
Photoshop, with the level of information often geared toward
intermediate and more
advanced users.
After joining various internet graphic arts related discussion
groups in the mid 90's, I found
myself repeating a lot of information in the form of links to relevant
articles or comments of my own that I had made in previous posts or at
different discussion groups. I originally created this site to simplify
my forum posts. Over the last decade, This site has undergone numerous content and design
changes, although the core purpose has remained unchanged.
The
site has not had a serious content and design revision since 2003, so
this 2006 update is long overdue. This
is the first time that I have used frames on this site, so I would like
to apologise in advance to those who dislike this navigation method (a
home link is provided on each page if you prefer to view the content
outside of the original frame layout). I hope that you find the site
useful and that the articles and how to guides are informative.
I
would like to extend a special thanks to Dave Elfving for granting permission to use
his photography, found on
the main
home page. I love the dynamic style that Dave
used to capture the vault, as opposed to the more traditional views of
vaults which are more commonly photographed. Visit Dave's creative website or view more examples of his
photography
at flickr.
Thanks
for stopping by and reading this section. My name is Stephen Marsh. I
entered the prepress trade in 1980's as a compositor. This was
back when phototypesetting and camera ready, paste-up reflective artwork
was common. By the time I had finished my apprenticeship training, the Apple Mac and
the desktop revolution had sounded the death bell for traditional
typesetting and artwork assembly and the trade as many knew it. Graphic
reproduction remained unaffected at the high end for a few more years
than typesetting did. It was not until around 1995 that desktop systems
really started to threaten high end proprietary graphic reproduction
systems from Scitex and other prepress vendors. My original training was
in a high end prepress system from Purup Electronics that specialised in four colour and multiple spot
colour layout and separation for packaging and security print work, which did a
good job of preparing me for general prepress work on the desktop
platforms which later replaced these expensive proprietary systems.
During
my career I have worked for print and design firms in securities, forms,
packaging, advertising, magazine, newsprint and commercial print
settings. Over the last ten years I have been active in various graphic
arts and Photoshop related forums such as the Dan Margulis Applied
Colour Theory in Photoshop list, where I am part of the moderating team.
As a Photoshop Beta Tester, I have had the pleasure of interacting with
the Photoshop Development Team and my industry peers on the pre-release program. I have also made
contributions to and tested other Photoshop related software from other
software vendors, such as Curvemeister. I have been an instructor for an introductory
Photoshop course for the School of Graphic Arts, Sydney, as well as
performing freelance graphic arts consultation work. Performing
freelance technical editing of Photoshop books for Sybex Publishing has
also been another highpoint in my career.
Although
I am no longer as active in online graphic arts discussion groups as I
once was, I can often be found on the Dan Margulis Applied Colour Theory
list where I perform moderating duties and still manage to make the
occasional contribution. I hope that this site continues to be of use to
both regular visitors and new.
I
can be contacted at this email address:
binaryfx@ozemail.com.au