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Photoshop Fling 5 Speakers

Eastern Caribbean • February 16th – 23rd, 2008

 

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DAN MARGULIS

Dan Margulis is considered to be the father of modern digital color correction. Design Tools Monthly calls him "The expert's expert on the logical and effective ways to make any image look its best when printed." He is the author of Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction (Fifth Edition, Peachpit Press, 2006). His 1993-2006 column, "Makeready," focusing on practical production issues, appeared in Computer Artist, Electronic Publishing and Photoshop User magazines, and in five different European venues. In 2001, he was one of the first three individuals, and the only writer, inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has offered small-group classes internationally, in Spanish, German, and Italian as well as English.

Dan Margulis' 2005 book, Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace, became the top-selling title in the entire computer field shortly after its release. David Biedny, author of Photoshop Channel Chops, called it "the most deeply advanced, inspiring, maddening, awesome, demanding and illuminating educational effort ever created for Photoshop." Scott Kelby, the best-selling Photoshop author of all time, said, "This book is going to radically change how we all do color correction from this point on. Anyone not using the techniques Dan unveils in this books will soon be a digital dinosaur. It's that revolutionary."

BERT MONROY

Artist, Author, Lecturer

"I consider myself a Hyper-realist artist. I love to paint. I use the word paint for lack of a better word. My medium is actually light. I have a passion for making things happen on the screen. Finding a new way of doing something and finding a new room in my imagination is what I love about the work."

Bert Monroy was born and raised in New York City where he spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies as well as his own.

Upon discovering computers with the introduction of the Macintosh 128 in 1984, he embarked on a new digital career. He embraced the computer as an artistic medium and is considered one of the pioneers of digital art. Bert's work has been seen in every major trade publication of the computer industry. His work has also been featured in scores of books which include Making Art on a Macintosh, The Photoshop WOW Book, The Illustrator WOW Book, The Art of Digital Painting, The Grey Book and The Photoshop A to Z in Japan.

His work has also been used to introduce many software products such as Photoshop, VideoWorks (predecessor to Director), PixelPaint, SoundCap and ImageStudio.

Bert was a founding partner in the New York firm Incredible Interactivity that was responsible for interactive multimedia presentations as early as 1986 before the terms had been coined. Presentations were created for such clients as General Motors, American Express and Knoll International.

Bert Monroy co-authored The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook, which was the first book on Photoshop and the only one for almost two years. It won various awards. He also co-authored Adobe Photoshop: A Visual Guide to the Mac which was published in 14 languages, Photoshop 4, published in Japan by Agosto and BNN, and Photoshop Channel CHOPS, co-authored with David Biedny and Nathan Moody, which concentrates on the most advanced features of the program not covered anywhere else. In 2000 he released is first solo book from New Riders called Bert Monroy: Photorealistic Techniques with Photoshop and Illustrator. It concentrates on the techniques he has established over the years in the creation of his fine art works. It is available at Amazon.com. His second solo book Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy, also from New Riders, is another compilation of his techniques specifically for Photoshop 7.0. January 2004 saw the introduction of Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy, also from New Riders. It is also a compilation of techniques but deals with Bert's commercial illustrations where photographs are sometimes used. This book deals with aspects of production that the two previous technique oriented books did not such as image retouching.

Bert is an accomplished teacher and lecturer who has served on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts (NYC), Center for Creative Imaging (ME), Dynamic Graphics Educational Foundation (IL), California College of Arts & Crafts (CA) and lectures at many other institutions and conferences around the world. He currently teaches at San Francisco State University. He teaches a long roster of corporate clients which includes Pixar Animations Studios. Bert is also a featured speaker at many world-wide conferences and is part of the Photoshop Dream Team of Photoshop World. Bert now lives in Berkeley, California. He continues to serve his installed base of clients which include Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Pioneer Electronics, Fujitsu, SONY, AT&T, Chevron and American Express. Bert has also done a considerable amount of film work for Industrial Light & Magic, Pacific Data Images and R/Greenberg Assoc.

Bert has appeared in countless television and radio shows around the world. Since May of 2001, Bert has been a regular guest on the G4/TechTV channel show The Screen Savers. He appears every month to share tips and techniques.

In 2004, Bert Monroy was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

DEKE MCCLELLAND

Pioneering electronic publisher Deke McClelland is a popular expert and lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and the larger realm of computer graphics and design. He serves as host to the interactive Video Workshop  CD that ships with Photoshop CS2 as well as the exhaustive and entertaining DVD, Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS2. Having written more than 80 titles translated into 25 languages with 3 million copies in print, Deke is the author of the bestselling full-color tutorial Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One.

Deke McClelland is one of the most award-winning writers in the business, Deke won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book in 1989. Since then, he has received more than 20 honors, including seven independent citations from the Computer Press Association (between 1990 and 2000). He is an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, and a contributing editor for Photoshop User magazine. In 2002, Deke was inducted into the National Association of Photoshop Professionals’ Photoshop Hall of Fame.

BEN WILLMORE

A senior engineer from NASA once said that this man gave the best technical seminar he ever attended. That same year a computer-phobic who had been struggling with Photoshop for years proclaimed that "He takes the Boogie Man out of Photoshop!" This seems to be Ben Willmore's special gift; he has an uncanny ability to connect with users of every level and mindset; whether it's first-timers taking their first sniff of Photoshop, or razor-sharp nerds and nerdettes who are on the fast track to technical illumination. The common echo that Ben leaves in his wake seems to be "Aha! I finally GET Photoshop!"

To date, Ben Willmore has personally taught over 60,000 Photoshop users on three continents. His descriptions of Curves and Channels are thought to be the best in the industry and his breakthrough teaching style of "not-just-how-but-why," has made him the in-house instructor of choice for companies such as Mercedes Benz, Adobe Systems, America Online, the U.S. Airforce, Lexis Nexis and Fisher-Price Toys. His award-winning, best-selling book, Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques is said to be "Arguably, one of the best Photoshop books ever written." by Photoshop User's publisher, Jim Workman. His latest book Photoshop CS3: Up to Speed is a new concept in books and is the only book focused exclusively on the new features in Photoshop CS3. He is also co-author (with Jack Davis) of How to Wow: Photoshop for Photographers, and creator of the best-selling Master Series videos.

He continues to be a featured speaker at publishing conferences and events worldwide, including Photoshop World, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the Royal Photographic Society of England. He's a member of the Dream Team for NAPP and writes for numerous digital imaging and photography publications, including a monthly column for Photoshop User magazine. In 2004 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. His reputation as the "expert's expert" prompted NAPP's president, Scott Kelby, to say, "When we get stuck, we call Ben!"

Ben Willmore sold his house in the mountains of Colorado in early 2006 and started to live a mobile lifestyle. His home is a 1997 40' Prevost bus (often referred to as a Rock Star Bus) that was converted by Liberty coach into a motorhome. The bus is pretty much a one bedroom apartment on wheels. Ben spends his time driving to speaking events and photographing National Parks and small town America.

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