I was now semi-retired and couldn’t justify the expense of having a professional graphics package when I wasn’t bringing in any income to offset it.
When I sold out of my printing company in the mid 2000’s, that was the last time I had access to the latest version of CorelDRAW. Although, I did still order the CD’s because I wanted to have them “just in case”. I upgraded every year religiously (well, almost – I would skip a year or two here and there) and was with them when they converted to CD from floppy and then watched as they transitioned to downloaded. I applied the things I learned in CorelDRAW and began learning the ropes on Corel PHOTO-PAINT, which was my first introduction to pixel-based art.
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Remember, this was in the days of Windows 3.1, so seeing your project on the screen and having it match the output perfectly was a huge step in home-based designing. Obviously, the wedding program was done in time using much of the included clipart for borders, fancy fonts for the type and sized perfectly on the WYSIWYG interface. Little did I know that not only would this be my tool for making a wedding handout, it would jump-start a career in the printing industry that lead to company ownership, a sellout and a second career as a game designer! I learned about layers, vector art, shading, kerning and more. I spent the better part of the next two months learning the ins and outs of the software, what it could do and all of its shortcuts. After much research, and being greatly swayed by the freebies included by Corel, I went with the CorelDRAW package – version 3.0. I needed to purchase one or the other and begin the learning process so we could have “fancy” programs to hand out that July. For the most part there were only two players – Adobe and Corel. And while we were both well-versed in word processors (WordPerfect) and spreadsheets (do you remember Lotus 1-2-3?), full-blown graphic programs were very new. There weren’t places like VistaPrint or Amazon to help us out. The internet was hardly a thing other than a few online games like Doom and we spent more time on CompuServe than we’d like to admit. There really was no place to find the extra money. We already had family members doing the catering, her brothers decorating and the ceremony was in the local church, which wasn’t costing us a thing. Fancy printed wedding programs was an expense we just couldn’t afford unless we gave up something else for the wedding. Both of us had less than three years out of college and money was very tight. Way, way back in the Spring of 1993, Nicole and I decided to save a little money on wedding programs and print them ourselves.
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