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Philip Andrews

Philip Andrews is a photographic professional who is consumed by two great passions: making great images and showing others how to do the same. He is an international best-selling author, publishing with such companies as Focal Press, Watson and Guptill, Thames and Hudson, Rotovision, and Carlton Books, and currently has 30 titles to his name. He is the co-editor and co-publisher of Better Photoshop Techniques (Aust.), contributing editor for What Digital Camera (UK), and contributes regularly to ShutterBug (USA). He is an accomplished teacher and demonstrator who has lectured in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia at trade shows, schools, colleges, universities and online in the UK, USA, and Australia. But above all he is a passionate photographer whose drive for taking and making great images is what fuels his working life. He is a professional with 20 years experience shooting commercial, editorial, and documentary pictures that have been published in over 40 magazines and newspapers worldwide.

Sandee Cohen

New York, NY USA

After a career in advertising, Sandee Cohen began teaching computer graphics over sixteen years ago. She has taught for New York University, New School University, the University of Hawaii, City College in New York, as well as many private organizations. A dynamic and entertaining speaker, she has been a frequent participant at Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and Thunder Lizard events. She is the co-author of Real World Creative Suite 2, which covers how all the applications in the Creative Suite work together. She is the author of the InDesign Visual QuickStart Guide -- the only book to have covered all versions of InDesign. She is also the author of books on the Acrobat, Illustrator, FreeHand, and Fireworks. She is the senior contributing editor to InDesign Magazine where her column, InQuestion, answers reader's questions.

Peter Eastway

Having worked in most areas of professional photography, Peter Eastway’s passion is for landscapes. He first exhibited with the Cavé Group in 1979, but it is over the past ten years that he has been exhibited more regularly with his award-winning imagery. Peter is also a Grand Master of Photography, one of only two in the world and earned from a career spanning nearly 30 years. He's been twice awarded the AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year. He was thrice awarded the Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year, Australian Illustrative Photographer of the Year in 2004, and thrice the NSW Professional Photographer of the Year. Recently he won the Grand Award for the Commercial Category at the 2005 WPPI Exhibition in Las Vegas. His limited edition prints are exhibited in selected galleries around Australia and are held by private collectors in England, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and the USA.

Mark Galer

Mark Galer is currently a senior lecturer in Digital Imaging at RMIT University on the BA Photography program (the leading commercial course in Australia) and has published ten titles for the International publisher Focal Press including the International best seller Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills. He has a commercial background in editorial photography (travel/landscape) and is currently a regular contributor to magazines in the USA, Australia and the UK. He is an Adobe beta tester for Photoshop, Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements, a leading educator in Photoshop training and is an Adobe Ambassador for Photoshop training in Australia.

Mordy Golding

Mordy Golding, an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist, has served as a hands-on trainer and has spoken at worldwide events and seminars including Macworld, Seybold, NAB, and PhotoshopWorld. His books include the soon-to-be-released Real World Illustrator CS, SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite All in One, The Web Designer's Guide to Color and SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator in 24 Hours. Mordy has also recorded several training videos including Illustrator Fundamental Techniques and Advanced Techniques by Software Cinema (www.software-cinema.com) and Learning Adobe CS Integration and Version Cue by Lynda.com (www.lynda.com). Mordy worked at Adobe as the product manager for Adobe Illustrator 10 and Adobe Illustrator CS, and in October of 2003, Mordy was named a 'Champion of Graphic Design' by Graphics IQ.

David Harradine

David is a Melbourne based Photographer, trainer and Adobe Photoshop beta tester, who since 2001 has trained many of Australia's and New Zealand's leading photographers, graphic designers and imaging professionals. Coming from a traditional photographic background David has embraced the solutions of the digital age and his areas of expertise are Photoshop, digital photography, colour management and the points at which they intersect. David is also a regular contributor to DG magazine and his photography and articles can be viewed at www.whack.com.au.

Mike McHugh

Mike McHugh is Australia's Premier Photoshop & InDesign Trainer. A Certified Adobe Expert, Certified Training Provider Mike has partnered with Adobe for four years. As a contractor Mike is often called upon by Adobe to speak at functions and provide support Adobe customers. Mike comes from a Pre-press, Finished art and Graphic Design background. With many large Publishing, Advertising and Design clients in Melbourne and Sydney Australia, Mike has years of practical knowledge he can put into practice.

Michael Stoddart

Adobe Systems

Initially trained as a graphic designer, Michael Stoddart was previously a 'Quark consultant' before joining Adobe in 1996. His various Adobe roles have been in technical, marketing and sales positions, and he is now the Business Development Manager for Adobes Creative Professional market. Over the past four years Michael has been heavily involved in helping Adobe's publishing, advertising and design clients transition to Adobe InDesign.

Les Walkling

Les Walkling is an artist, educator and consultant. His work is in many public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and The National Gallery of Victoria. Les is the former Director of Media Arts at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where he is now a Postgraduate Research Fellow and Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant recipient in the School of Art. He conducts regular digital imaging courses through the Centre for Contemporary Photography, the AIPP and ACMP, and his consulting services include the design-implementation of production workflows, and quantitative-qualitative digital systems analysis.