I use Photoshop Elements 11 to manipulate my images quite a bit in both my printmaking and digital art. At times it is very laborious when I am creating an image to be used for paper lithography but, at other times, when I am working strictly to create a photographic image as an end in itself, I admit, it gives me instant gratification. Before the days of “photoshop” when I was working in corporate theater, an image would take great skill and precision to create. Working with Rubylith masking film to generate a positive and negative film, it would be sandwiched with original images; then rephotographed on a pin registered piece of film which could have multiple exposures to capture the final image. I have found that experience has greatly influenced the way I work in printmaking because I have to think the image through as to how to layer the ink and images. It is disheartening to come to your final layer and realize I didn’t get it right and the entire print has just been ruined. Not so with my digital work which for me is pure unpolluted joy. I could sit for hours and play with an image until I get exactly what I want to see. I am always amazed at how the image can be transformed and when I feel the frustrations of printmaking, I always turn to a digital image where I know I can find success. I print my images on Canson edition etching rag 310g/m2 paper.