Brad Dickinson

Background

About Brad Dickinson

I am a production artist with a design background experienced in prepress, packaging, large format printing, publishing and color. I am well versed in commercial, flexo, dry offset, newsprint, rgb and digital work flows. SKILLS: Adobe Softwares: file prep, product matching, image retouching, seamless image compositing, outlining and soft masking, natural drop shadows, total print density, under color removal, profile conversions such as flexo, dry offset, grayscale and duotone. I can also create electronic art and have some web page experience. Graphic Design; including electronic illustrating, logo and business card design or enhancement, copy editing, copy writing and page layout. SOFTWARE; Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat, Quark, Artpro, Freehand, Word, PowerPoint and Prinergy. HARDWARE; Macintosh, PC, Lambda Printers, Kongsberg I-Cut, Vutek UV inkjet printers, Barco, Kodak Approval, Dupont Digital Waterproof, Epson Integris inkjets, HP inkjets, DS Drum Scanner, Crossfield Drum Scanner, Hell Sapphire Flatbed Scanner and Epson Perfection Photo Flatbed Scanner. Specialties: • Photoshop expert product match, profiles and retouching • Converting 4 color images to spot color images for dry offset for printing on plastic cups. • Converting 4 color images to flexo friendly images for printing on plastic bags. • Accurate and fast oulines with drop shadows for catalog production. • Combining design and original art with prepress production.