Marcia Beales

marcia_beales@yahoo.com

Since coming to City College in 1997, Marcia Beales has taught beginning and advanced Photoshop, Digital Scanning and Correction, Digital Prepress, and Introduction to the Macintosh. An Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, she also works at Graphic Arts Institute in San Francisco, where she has taught Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Preflighting, Trapping, Color Correction and all other aspects of electronic prepress production. She also works as a color printing and prepress consultant, and trains privately. Her twenty years in the printing industry include early experience as a magazine editor, proofreader and advertising typographer, then as a production artist and account manager for one of the first national ad campaigns to be entirely produced electronically —an experience she likens to Macintosh boot camp. She gained high-end experience as an electronic prepress operator at Star Graphic Arts Company in Brisbane, and also worked there on quality control systems and employee training. Eventually she became Star's full-time electronic prepress trainer, teaching Macintosh programs and electronic pre-press to journeymen, apprentices, and CSRs.

Marcia has a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley.

She loves to travel, garden, hike and bike, and she is a perpetual student of foreign languages. She is currently at work on a second novel, entitled Our Zombies, Ourselves, which she describes as an Inferno for the modern age. Her first novel, Heartbreak Hotel, draws on experiences during her youth in Mississippi at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.