Although my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is in Theatrical Scenic and Lighting Design where I first began my professional career, I have since left prop fabrication and made the switch over to digital and computer graphics. For over five years I studied graphic design, typography, and photography. I have learned, explored in depth, and have been using Photoshop CS2/3 extensively, and have even been named as a Finalist in Photoshop Retouching at the Photoshop Users' Photoshop World West in Los Angeles, February 2003. And won for Best Digital Illustration the following year. I also have advanced knowledge of many design and graphics products such as
Quark 4, PageMaker, InDesign, Illustrator 10/CS, Image Ready, Dreamweaver & Flash MX, After Effects 5, among others.

I was previously employed at Cinetech Imaging and Luna Imaging. My duties included color matching and correction of digital scans from their original source.
The work is then archived for the client, which can include museums, galleries and film studios. Scanning of original prints were part of my duties as well.

Before that, I worked at American Dreamwear dba Zaftique.com, an online clothing merchant. It was vitally important that when our clients look through our online catalogue, the digital images they see correctly reflect the item they may be ordering from our website. I was responsible for digitally photographing all merchandise, and retouching all the images to be published on the web, color-correcting and balancing to make sure that the digital files look as good and as close to the original merchandise as possible.

At my position with Arabesque, I developed many of the retouching techniques and procedures used at the photo studio, one of which has been included in the book, Photoshop for Digital Photographers. I digitally retouched and color-balanced images that our clients have ordered, and I was able to work with a variety of different types of images, which ranged from single portraits to multi-shot panoramas that sometimes had to be pieced together from underexposed and over exposed images to be composited into a seamless whole. I was also responsible for teaching and supervising all over-hire workers brought in throughout the year during the company's busy seasons.

Also, since October 2005, I have been teaching an 'Intro to Photoshop' class at Studio Arts here in Los Angeles. It is a ten week class that teaches the very basics of Photoshop and covers optimizing your computer for the best performance of the software. My students are mostly traditional animators and designers who need to learn and quickly get up to speed in the digital world.

Robert Dennis