I have always liked drawing and painting and loved watching the works of great artists, Rembrandt, DaVinci, Dali and Magritte, to name a few. Was fascinated when found the possibilities of digital art, my first programs were Corel Draw, Photopaint, Ulead Photoimpact, PSP, and lately Photoshop since version 5, Ilustrator makes me mad, cause I can use only the mesh and trace tools and none of the other great stuff. Oh well ... I'll learn sometime. Also use Fireworks and my last version is 8.
Have made a few templates and implemented them in Dreamweaver using CSS only. Expect to dedicate myself to photoretouching as soon as I manage to get my retirement papers finished --yes I am that age ... ...