ABSTRACT
Another way of sharing a digital portfolio is by maintaining a website. Files that have been saved on computers or CDs can be imported to personal websites. “While there are a number of programs that can be used to create the content of a site, Adobe Photoshop is by far my most important tool,” says Kristina Tollefson, who serves as the Vice-Commissioner for Communications, Costume Design & Technology Commission of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Kristina finds that Photoshop is extremely easy to use and it offers many shortcuts and tricks to make repetitive tasks (such as resizing photographs or preparing image maps of graphic creation) less taxing. She adds that even renderings that are bigger than a scanner bed can be scanned a couple of times and then pieced together. “Photoshop makes piecing the images together pretty simple.” Kristina is considered a wizard of digital technology among her colleagues. She earned her M.F.A. in Costume Design and Technology from Purdue University, is currently an Assistant Professor and Resident Costume and Makeup Designer at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and is also a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
