Macs Are Indispensable to Artists Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman

Many tattoo and piercing fans must know about tattoo artists Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman of Hyperspace Studios. The couple relies on Macs to make their designs and then work with the details. Both their styles and artistic approaches are distinct, according to Elise Malmberg, but, as she reveals in her Apple Ink piece, both artists use Macs to research, develop, and share their work with the world.

Sure, you can do all this without the Mac, but not as good, as fast and as easy as with the Mac. After all, Apple's goal, among other things, has always been to offer everything that was available at a certain given time, using up less space and throwing in a bunch of innovative features too. Add that to the speed demon inside every Mac computer and you've got yourself the perfect work tool on the planet.

"I've used a Mac to create almost all my designs since I started tattooing," says Wortman. "We both understood how we could grow from it and integrate it into our art. When we first started using Photoshop, we realized, 'Wow, we can scale up photos, modify them, and collage things together.' With the Mac, we can take our art much further."

Aitchison agrees: "Our Macs are indispensable. We do plenty of analog projects, from painting to sculpting, but at some point it all gets funneled through the digital world. The ability to function smoothly between multiple creative applications makes it very easy to move between different media, and between the digital and analog worlds."

The Mac also comes in quite handy because Guy and Michele sometimes have to perform full-body mods (so to speak) which clearly asks for a good solution (or bundle) and a computer to match. Imagine messing up someone's idea of a full makeover.

"Michele has had some enormous clients this last year - including a woman who was almost seven feet tall," Aitchison explains.

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