Elaina lives in Florida with her husband, her 2 cockatiels, and several finches. After spending 15 years at IBM, she never expected to have a computer in her own home. In 1997 her husband decided he wanted to be “plugged in” and he bought a MacIntosh with a whopping 32 megabytes of RAM. He finally convinced Elaina to give it a try and she was immediately hooked, but soon got tired of sharing, so she bought a PC for herself and got a free version of PrintMaster with it.

Once she followed the instructions and created her first greeting card, Elaina decided she loved computer graphics. She tried several other printing programs and finally settled on The Print Shop. While making her own cards, she also began making her own graphics and became a Paint Shop Pro junkie. Eventually she began writing PSP tutorials and became a Beta tester for both Jasc and Corel.

As her interest in computer graphics grew, Elaina discovered the exciting world of Corel Painter. After taking several classes she began using the program to create digital paintings, and at last was able to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming an “artiste”.  You may view some of Elaina’s digital paintings here:

http://www.nightshadowfx.com/Gallery/imagegallery.php

These days, in addition to creating custom cards and gifts for friends and family, Elaina hangs around on the web talking to other graphics addicts, teaching, and taking more classes at LVS.

Elaina’s website: www.nightshadowfx.com