Faculty Spotlight: Alison Cattelona
Alison Cattelona has been a computer instructor for the past 13 years teaching in 30 desktop applications. Her experience comes from a background in the graphic arts including paste-up/mechanicals, design and art direction. She took the solid production experience she gained having worked in a print shop to her art director/designer jobs within the advertising and marketing industries. The freelance work that followed rounded out her expertise in the many industries, applications and techniques that she uses today in her instruction. Alison founded and grew Mobile Mac & PC Training to be the highly successful, multi-platform, multi-application training company it is today. Alison holds ACE and ACI credentials with Adobe and is the co-chapter rep of the Central NJ InDesign User Group.

Check out Alison's new contribution to the Graphics.com/Learning library SPRY Widgets in Dreamweaver

Tip of the Week from Alison:
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign CS3 & 4 can share the same swatch color library. Click on the fly-out menu from the Swatch palette from any of the applications and choose Save Swatches (InDesign), Save Swatch Library as ASE (Illustrator), Save Swatches for Exchange (Photoshop). This creates an ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange file) that can be opened in any of the other apps. Gradients and patterns cannot be exchanged.