David Blatner

Seattle, WA USA

David Blatner is the author of 15 books on topics such as InDesign, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress -- including Real World InDesign, InDesign Breakthroughs, and Real World Photoshop. He is the co-host of InDesignSecrets.com, the editorial director of InDesign Magazine and The InDesign Conference, and a contributing editor to CreativePro.com. Over a half a million copies of his books are in print in 12 languages, winning him awards and praise from readers. He has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa.

Gloria Antonelli

Chicago, IL

Gloria Antonelli is an artist, designer, trainer, and consultant in multimedia design, photo imaging, and web technologies. Early career iterations include fine artist and educator. Gloria holds a BFA in traditional fine arts media. In the mid 90's, she taught 'Hyper Media' later known as multimedia - digital images, text, graphics, sound and interactivity.  Flash forwarding, she began working with Adobe and Macromedia software in the late 90's. Rapid prototyping, she added Web Standards, Color Management, Print, Usability, Informational Architecture, and Search Engine Optimization - training with the best. An expert in Cascading Style Sheets, Gloria is currently developing hybrid Multimedia and Web Standards Designs. She guest speaks on Design + Web Standards and teaches at Harrington College of Design, Chicago, IL. 

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.

Anne-Marie Concepción

Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepción is an accomplished design studio owner, consultant, trainer, author and speaker on all things related to digital design and production. Her Chicago-based firm Seneca Design & Training creates print, web and interactive PDF projects for clients including the Joyce Foundation, the International Housewares Show and LobsterGram. Anne-Marie is also a seasoned Adobe and Quark authorized trainer with clients across the country, recently helping BBDO, McDougal Littel, Loyola Press, Playboy Enterprises and McDonalds Corp. move to Adobe InDesign, often helping them incorporate Adobe InCopy as well. Her free bimonthly e-zine, DesignGeek, with "tips and techniques for the digital designer" is enjoyed by thousands of designers around the world. Visit DesignGeek Central at her studio's web site, senecadesign.com.

Jori Curry

Jori Curry is President and Director of Training for Ascend Training, and an Adobe Certified Expert. Jori has been teaching Photoshop since 1996, and has an Art degree with an emphasis in Graphic Design from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She started out her career in the Advertising biz doing computer design in addition to keyline pasteup. She then went on to serve as an Art Director at Anixter International. She has also worked as a Technical Advisor to Pearson in their Photoshop Que series. Jori has also lectured at the HOW Design Conference and the Mac Design Conference. She continues to do design work in the print and web fields, in addition to being an avid photographer.

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.

Jim Maivald

Jim Maivald is a graphic designer and consultant who has over 25-years' experience in design, and 20-years' experience in computer-based design and publishing. Jim teaches for Ascend Training, in addition to other clients around the country such as Purina, WorldBook, Grainger and others. He is an Adobe Certified Expert, and teaches InDesign, XML, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. His course in XML and InDesign has been groundbreaking in bringing the publishing and web development fields together. Jim is the author of Photoshop Complete, and was the Technical Editor for Personal Publishing/Business Publishing magazine, and the Editor of Design Graphics World Magazine. Jim is also a regular featured speaker at the Chicago InDesign User Group meetings.

Deke McClelland

Pioneering electronic publisher Deke McClelland is a popular expert and lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. Having written more than 70 titles translated into 25 languages with 3 million copies in print, Deke is perhaps best-known for his long-running Photoshop Bible, the most successful third-party book about digital imaging. He is an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, and a contributing editor for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines.

Colin Smith

Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning new-media designer who has caused a stir in the design community with his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed entirely in Photoshop. He is founder of the world's most popular Photoshop resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com. He is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine, PlanetPhotoshop.com, and the official site of the National Association for Photoshop Professionals. He has authored or co-authored more than fifteen books on Photoshop, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS and CS2 and award-winning Photoshop Most Wanted: Effects and Design Tips. Colin is also creator of the Photoshop Secrets Video training series (PhotoshopCD.com). You can see more of Colin's portfolio at pixeloverload.com.

Terry White

Terry White has been with Adobe for almost a decade, and has extensive knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite product line. In his current position as Technical Resources Manager for North America, he leads a team of applications engineers who focus on professional publishing, web authoring, and digital video. Terry has been active in the industry for almost 20 years, and he is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit. He is also a columnist for Layers Magazine, and author of the InDesign Personal Seminar and the co-author, with Scott Kelby, of InDesign Killer Tips.

Ben Wilmore

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!”