SAN DIEGO BASED DIGITAL ARTIST DESIGNER

The creative multimedia design studio of Gary G. Ballard, a commercial digital imaging professional photographer in San Diego County for advertising, plus website copywriter, and commercial graphic designer, provides specialized personal boutique creative services to international business and corporate clients, including the greater Southern California area and West Coast of United States of America, USA.

Gary G. Ballard has more than 20 years daily work experience directing people for photo shoots in the studio and on location while working closely with top professionals and in-house design and creative teams, including photography, writing and motion-picture production assignments around the world.

Extensive on-line DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIOS specializing in:

People Pictures for Advertising, Editorial Marketing
Active Lifestyle Photography Photographer
Environmental Portraiture
Portrait Artist, Corporate Mug Shots, and Personal Pictures
Photojournalism, Documentaries, News Photos, Photojournalist
Exclusive Private Events, Back Stage Celebrity Photographer
Model and Actor Professional Portfolios
Director of Photography, Photo Editor Editing
Creative Engineer
Colorist

Gary Ballard offers personal EXPERT LEVEL professional Adobe® Photoshop® digital production services for print and internet publishing; guru Mac consulting for professional creative artists, and free professional Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

Extensive free PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS and downloads, including specialized white papers on professional desktop publishing color management and print and desktop publishing work flow:

Work flows exposing the Heart and Soul of Digital Color
Photoshop, Epson, ColorSync "Print Matches Monitor" Workflows
Large-Format Ink-jet Digital Photo Print Printing Specialist
Color Management System CMS Theory, White Papers Articles
Extensive Mac and Photoshop Troubleshooting Guides Resources
Apple Macintosh DEADLINE-Driven Desktop Publishing Workflows
On-Site Training Seminars Consulting

In addition to specialized high-quality DIGITAL BOUTIQUE photography, graphic design and creative copywriting services, the San Diego art director creative engineer and multimedia producer is available for hire as a creative and production consultant specializing in on-location and creative in-house digital production services.

PRINTING SERVICES IN SAN DIEGO

G. BALLARD Studio offers the finest specialized professional in-house commercial ink-jet printing services in San Diego.

Epson Stylus Pro 7880 color inkjet printer (newer than 7600 and 7800)

Epson UltraChrome K3 eight-color archival inks

PK Photo Black ink usually loaded

Professional photographic-quality archival prints up to 24 inches by banner sizes poster printing for fine art, commercial and trade display, portfolios, including picture framing.

Archival heat mounting services using Seal Masterpiece 210M-X heat press.

Gary Ballard knows how to use this Epson printer in a color-managed workflow and does all the printing himself in house to the highest personal and commercial standards.

The G. BALLARD design studio is setup and hardware calibrated to first accurately PROOF and evaluate the color on high-end 30" Apple and NEC 24-inch LCD state-of-the-art monitors, then send the project to Ballard Epson printers, or out to off-set CMYK printers to four-color printing presses.

Whether the job calls for second opinions on color proofing or color correcting digital color for web publishing, large format ink-jet printing or preproduction prepress proofing, the Ballard design studio can help and train clients get predictable color. Gary Ballard also helps creative designers setup color-managed Adobe® workflows, and troubleshoot color problems in Epson printing work flows.

WEB SITE DESIGN & DIGITAL GRAPHIC ARTIST

Affordable web design featuring professional graphics and design, intuitive user interface.

Extensive WEB DESIGN PORTFOLIOS on the internet, specializing in:

Professional Graphic Designer, Publisher, Digital Publishing
Webmaster, Domain Registration to Published Site, E-mail Setup
Web Designer
Custom Web Site Design
Professional Custom Graphic Design
Unique Custom Logos, Logo Designer
Company Corporate Logos Design
Company Branding
Web Site Branding Strategies
Internet Marketing
Corporate Branding
Internet Branding Strategy
Project Data Backup, Digital Archiving Services
Search Engine Optimization Specialist Consultant

WEBSITE COPYRIGHTER SEO COPYWRITING

G. Ballard is a Syracuse University educated photojournalist who received extensive daily writing experience in the U.S. Navy under strict deadline pressure while working with highly-motivated professionals, talented team players.

Specialized professional writer for the internet, including:

*SEO Search Engine Copyrighting, SEO Copy
Website Copywriting, Web Page Copy
Advertising Copywriter, AD Copy

*Search engine results based on research, focused approach.
Page ranking results demonstrated on request.

SAN DIEGO DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION

Affordable, budget-orientated DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION SERVICES in San Diego, Southern California, West Coast, including:

Natural-Born Cut Cameraman
Script Writer, Final Draft AV
Digital Video Editor and Editing, Final Cut Pro
Sony DVCAM and MiniDV Digital Video formats
Sennheiser Wireless and Wired Microphones
Experienced Interviewer, Photojournalist

FINAL CUT STUDIO 6 Mac workstation
Final Cut Pro 6
DVD Studio Pro
Soundtrack Pro
Compressor
LiveType
Motion
Cinema Tools
DV, SD, HD, High Definifition Editing

Finished video movie and film production services to:

Video and Movie DVD CD
QuickTime .mov
Two-pass VBR MPEG-2 encoding
Video transfers to video iPods, MPEG-4 .m4v, .mov
Internet Compression for Internet Streaming, .html Ready
Project Data Backup, Archiving Services

GREATER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA

San Diego County down town Gas Lamp, La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, El Cajon, La Mesa, Alpine, Lakeside, Santee, Spring Valley, Vista, Julian, Jamul, Encinitas, Carmel, Chula Vista, National City, Bonita, Imperial Beach, Ocean Beach, Lemon Grove, San Ysidro, Tecate, Tijuana, Baja California, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Imperial County, Orange County, Riverside, Imperial Valley, Colorado River areas. In Baja California, Mexico: Mexicali, Tijuana, Tecate, Ensenada, Rosarito, San Jose de la Zorra, Juntas de Neji, San Antonio Necua, Santa Catarina and La Huerta.

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Adobe® Photoshop® and Apple® Macintosh® are registered trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc., and Adobe Systems, Inc. G. Ballard has no affiliation with these companies.