I am a huge fan of classic artists like Salvador Dali, Calder and Leonardo da Vinci, but am also strongly influenced and inspired by the works of contemporaries like Jack Pedota, David Ho, Luis Royo, Olivia and many of my fellow Renderosity artists who continue to inspire me on a daily basis. My other tools of the trade include Hexagon, Silo, ZBrush and Vue, and I also do black & white digital photography and photo restoration on the side. My art is a mixture of DAZ Studio, Poser, Photoshop CS5 and Filter Forge. Now I'm equally obsessed (if not more so) with all things 3D as well. I had always been a little intimidated by 3D graphics, thinking it was way too hard to do, but I decided to give it a shot anyways. About two years ago I came across an ad in a magazine for DAZ Studio. Since then I have been teaching myself all things Photoshop. A few years later a friend introduced me to Photoshop, and it was love at first sight. I went home that day and created some silly little piece and after that I was totally hooked.
I first became interested in computer graphics some time circa 1995 when my dad gave me this CD package of some new, up-and-coming computer software at the time which included Aldus Photostyler and KAI PowerTools. Hi there! My name is Victoria, and I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California (but live elsewhere now). ↑ Bruce Chizen Biography, Encyclopedia of World Biography.↑ Adobe Systems Continues Product Line Rebranding, Adobe Systems.↑ Macromedia's purchase of Altsys raises questions by Pardhu Vadlamudi, InfoWorld p.24.↑ Aldus and Adobe Systems Finalize Merger, Computer History Museum.↑ Aldus and Adobe Lay Claim to Digital Publishing by Laurie Flynn, The New York Times.↑ Aldus Corporation History, Funding Universe.↑ Aldus to Add Products, Enhance Pagemaker, InfoWorld p.125.
By December 2000, Bruce Chizen had become the CEO of Adobe. Knowledge of and experience with IBM personal computers, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Microsoft Works for Windows 2.0, Aldus Pagemaker 5.0, Aldus Photostyler 1.1. Other products from the Aldus line were rebranded to Adobe in May 1995. Altsys sued to regain marketing rights to FreeHand, citing a non-compete clause because of Adobe's development of Adobe Illustrator. Īldus itself was absorbed by Adobe Systems in a merger that was completed on August 31, 1994. Aldus appointed Bruce Chizen as the VP and general manager of the studio in San Diego. In February 1990, Aldus announced its intention to acquire Silicon Beach Software, which was completed for US$25.5 million in stock. Logo of Silicon Beach Software at the time of its acquisition by Aldus. In the fall of 1987, Aldus licensed a graphical program from Altsys Corporation and released it as Aldus FreeHand, with Altsys retaining development rights.
Aldus was founded by Paul Brainerd, Jeremy Jaech, Mark Sundstrom, Mike Templeman, and Dave Walter in Seattle, Washington in February 1984.