David Blatner

Seattle, WA USA

David Blatner is a consultant specializing in InDesign, QuarkXPress and Photoshop. He has authored or co-authored 13 books, including Real World Adobe InDesign, InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, the award-winning bestseller The QuarkXPress Book, Real World Photoshop, Real World Scanning and Halftoning, and QuarkXPress Tips & Tricks. David presents at workshops and conferences around North America and Japan, including at Seybold Seminars, The Photoshop Conference, and Digital Design World.

Russell Brown

Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated

As Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated, Russell Preston Brown facilitates the exchange between digital designers and software developers that is so vital to Adobe's product development. Russell's wacky and whimsical design work has been published in Photoshop User magazine, and Design Graphics magazine, and on the Web at www.adobe.com and www.russellbrown.com. Always delighting in testing the creative limits of his tools, Russell is the prolific creator of Photoshop, tips and tricks. His double treat of great information presented in a bold, zany style has won him a regular following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike.  

Sandee Cohen

New York, NY USA

After a long career in advertising, Sandee Cohen began teaching computer graphics thirteen 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 Acrobat 5 Master Class as well as author of books on InDesign, Fireworks, FreeHand, Illustrator, and desktop publishing.

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.

Kacey Crouch

Design? Technology? Education? Why not embrace it all! Kacey Crouch is an Adobe Certified Trainer that just can't stop at that. Formally trained in graphic design, Kacey identified a large gap in the industry in regard to technology. With amazing and powerful tools at her fingertips, she decided to focus on helping others understand and embrace the capabilities of design software.

Kacey trains internationally for Adobe products. She also art directs several publications, writes for well-known design magazines, and speaks at industry conferences.

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.

Lynn Grillo

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Lynn Grillo is an Application Engineer at Adobe Systems where she supports all of Adobe's products for creative professionals. She is an Adobe Certified Expert in GoLive CS, InDesign CS and Photoshop CS, and has taught master classes at conferences such as MacWorld and PhotoshopWorld. Lynn has co-authored 3 books on Adobe GoLive, the most recent, Adobe GoLive CS Tips & Tricks - The 200 Best, has received rave reviews by GoLive users around the world.

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.

Claudia McCue

Atlanta, GA

Claudia McCue incorporates more than 20 years of traditional and digital prepress production experience in her current incarnation as a consultant and trainer for the graphic arts industry. Claudia's company, Practicalia LLC (http://www.practicalia.net), provides custom onsite training for a national client base of design firms, publications, printing companies and marketing professionals. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and has been fond of InDesign since it was known as "K2."

Bert Monroy

Artist, Author, Lecturer

Bert Monroy 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.

Adam Pratt

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Adam Pratt is an Application Engineer at Adobe Systems where he supports all of Adobe's products for creative professionals. He's an Adobe Certified Expert in every application in Adobe's Creative Suite, and the first certified Creative Suite Master in the world. He's the co-author of three GoLive books including Adobe GoLive CS Tips and Tricks and he has extensive professional experience in Web, print, and multimedia design.

Matthew Richmond

Matthew Richmond is a Founding Partner and Creative Director at The Chopping Block, Inc. , a full-service graphic design studio founded in 1996 on the principle that good design spans all mediums. His work has won notable recognition from Communication Arts, ID Magazine, HOW Magazine and Flash Forward. In 2003, Matthew and the Block were featured in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum's Triennial Exhibition. Recent projects include work for MoMA, Snapple, XM Radio, They Might be Giants, Phish, Adobe, and Sony Pictures Classics.

For the past ten years, Matthew has presented and instructed on all aspects of digital and analog design, photography and illustration. When not in the studio, Matthew can be found teaching digital illustration, Flash and advanced techniques to the graduate students at the School of Visual Arts.

Ray Robertson

Scripting Matters Inc.

Ray Robertson has been referred to as a "world-renowned AppleScript expert" by Apple Computer, and has been working with script development and training since founding Scripting Matters in 1998. As co-leader of AppleScript Pro Sessions, he has much experience in introducing beginners to AppleScript, and teaching even veteran scripters some tricks for automating the Creative Suite. Having just returned from a very successful AppleScript promotional tour with Apple in Europe, Ray is now focusing on introducing more users to the exciting possibilities of using AppleScript, Automator and AppleScript Studio.

Steve Werner

Steve Werner is a trainer, consultant, and co-author (with David Blatner and Christopher Smith) of InDesign for QuarkXPress Users. He has worked in the graphic arts industry for . He has worked in the graphic arts industry for . He has worked in the graphic arts industry for more than 20 years and was the training manager for ten years at Rapid Lasergraphics. He has taught computer graphics classes since 1988.

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!”