A fast, reliable freelance editor with over 15 years' experience in the UK trade and academic publishing industry. Whether you are an author, publishing house, academic or else, I can help you to ready your content for publication.
• Typesetting books, catalogues and flyers • Creating styles and templates from scratch, following a brief or based on predefined styles • Generating print-ready PDFs with press quality settings on
Expert
Acrobat Pro
• Amending text and images using advanced editing tools directly in unlocked PDFs • Tagging PDF files with comments and queries • Transforming Adobe PDF files into ebooks and slide presentations • Combining PDF files to reveal text amendments • Extracting, replacing, adding pages to PDF files
Expert
Photoshop
• Optimising images for press • Tweaking images • Manipulating and amending scanned or PDF text
Advanced
Illustrator
• Converting graphs, timelines and other numerical-type of illustrations (png, excel or pdf files) into high-quality eps files • Drawing maps and graphs from screen grabs, pictures or scans • Designing logos and banners
Advanced
Microsoft Office
Word
• Formatting layouts using styles and templates • Using track changes and including comments and queries • Compiling mathematical formulas, table of contents, indexes, glossary • Comparing and merging Word documents
Expert
Excel,
• Creating production planning schedules and budget tracking spreadsheets • Generating graphs
Intermediate
Powerpoint
• Designing dynamic presentations
Intermediate
Web Tools
iThenticate, JAMS
• user knowledge of both the peer-review and production interfaces of JAMS • generation of plagiarism reports
Advanced
Google Analytics, Statcounter
analyses and tracking of followers flow data to increase blog visibility by actioning online campaign, such as social media engagement and improving SEO tagging
Good
Wordpress, Blogger
Le Stitch en Folie [blog - discontinued]
• writing engaging contents on a weekly basis • branding by designing bespoke banner/logo and web layout using HTML or Illustrator • retouching/refocusing, optimising pictures to improve faster streaming