While most of the images started life inside the computer, some are based on photographic images taken with a Nikon D70 Digital SLR. The original images where RAW format and converted with a neutral default white-point to PSD files before being worked on.

Software

I have used Adobe Illustrator 12.0, part of Adobe’s CS2 Suite, as the mainstay tool but have finished the images in Photoshop 9.0 in some cases where I was trying to achieve a particular blending effect beyond the ability of Illustrator’s Postscript rendering engine.

The majority of work for this show was done on my trusty old dual processor Apple Mac G4 with 1 Gb of RAM. Even though it is now nearly four years old it was up to the job due to its rather unique hard disk sub-system. At times I can be working with 4 Gb scratch files, so to handle the intensive read/write operations needed to handle such large files I have added an Ultra160 SCSI card with 2 Ultra Fast and Wide 10,000 RPM 36 Gb Seagate Cheetah hard disks attached that do all of the grunt work.

The final images that I worked on - and re-worked for the show were done on my Dual Processor 2GHz G5 with 2.5 Gb of RAM with an internal 160 Gb 7200rpm SATA hard drive, an internal 70Gb 10,000rpm SATA scratch disk and an external 320 Gb Firewire 800 drive to store the large production files.

Production Artist's Proofs were produced on an Apple PowerMac G5 and printed on the Epson Stylus 2100 pigment inkjet printer using genuine Epson inks.

The original colour set proofing and Production Proof printing was done on a seven colour Epson Stylus 2100 using Epson pigment UltraChrome inks on Epson Premium Semigloss Photo paper.

The large format prints where produced on Canon Wide Format Printer using pigment inks.