Curtis M Carlson has worked in the early days with light tables, ruby-lyth, exacto knives and rubber cement, Since he has done extensive work working on Mac and PC platforms using many different and varied software programs. Vector graphic software programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand . Bitmapped Image software programs such as Adobe Photoshop, and Correl Draw and Paint programs. Curtis M Carlson has worked with word processing programs such as MS Word, Word Perfect, and Quark. Curtis M Carlson has worked on a collegiate and professional level with multi-media programs such as Power Point, Director, Swish, and Flash. And have worked with Html editing software programs such as Front Page, and Dreamweaver.

Though well versed in the modern computer technology Curtis M Carlson is not afraid to pick up a pen or pencil and make beautiful drawings manually.