I wanted to design in my own personal style after years of trying to design in someone else's style, whether that be a client logo or company website.
What I quickly found was that many of you liked my style, which allowed me to use all of those fancy, foo foo fonts and ornate, intricate designs I hadn't been able to in the past with my corporate clients and reserved news media job. The year was 2006 and I was just realizing the opportunity in front of me!.
After a couple years on my own, I taught my sister, Becky McQuade, how to use Photoshop and was amazed at the designer that had been hiding behind nursing scrubs for 20 years! Once she started cranking out designs with me, we needed to bring in my mother, Sandy Prive, to take care of the daily sales and emails while we focused on the designs. In January 2009, I quit my full-time job as Art Director/Webmaster at WWLP-TV22 to give my full focus to my part-time business.
After 2 years, my sister was able to hang up her stethoscope and scrubs and devote her attention to designing full time along side me. There is no better partnership in the world than what we have and I am thankful EVERY SINGLE DAY.
As a graphic designer for over 25 years, I've acquired extensive Photoshop knowledge, starting in Adobe Photoshop 1.0. My training began on a Mac Plus (yes the one with the built-in 9" monitor!) which I later used for a foot stool...it was the perfect size. I have since moved to the Windows platform. My experience includes not only print and website design, but broadcast design as well...having spent 15 years at a local NBC affiliate. I absolutely love designing and am so happy to offer my designs to you.
At Ashe Design, we understand that your clients will want a lot of personalization and customization. We provide you with the ability to meet your clients' expectations with a full line of templates that are both easy to use and fully customizable. As Art Director, I work closely with my team and personally guarantee the usability of all of our products.
The difference between these templates and others is they are totally customizable. Our templates are NOT simple "knockouts" in the background, under which a photo is placed. We provide you with instructional tutorials that will walk you through the simple steps to create clipping groups in Photoshop with your photos, thus allowing the individual layers to be moved around and turned on or off. This allows you to lessen the number of photos on the template or change colors or text on any of the individual layers.
Ashe Design is dedicated to bringing you, and your business, templates that are easy to use and customize. If we can help you in any way, please don’t hesitate to ask. We love helping photographers grow their business.
