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.

Diane Burns

San Francisco, CA

Diane Burns is one of the pioneers in electronic publishing, and in 1984 founded TechArt International. TechArt was one of the first Macintosh-based design firms in the country and today is one of the leading firms for print and web design specializing in East Asian languages. She has presented publishing courses and seminars for Stanford University, MacWorld Expo and Seybold Seminars in both the United States and Japan, and is the author of many articles and several books on publishing, including The QuarkXPress Handbook (Hungry Minds/Wiley Publishing, Inc.).

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.

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.

Rufus Deuchler

Florence, Italy

Rufus Deuchler is a communication designer who has always been fascinated by technology that makes creation easier. In 2002, after many years of freelancing as a graphic artist specializing in editorial and corporate design, Rufus was asked by Adobe Italy to become 'cross-media guru' and help spread the word around the country. This new activity brought him to evangelize the Creative Suite and Adobe solutions to the creative pro market; he now provides consulting and training on Adobe software and workflows to major publishing companies in Italy. He has authored interactive courses, writes for specialized publishing magazines, webmasters the first InDesign User Group in Italy and still collaborates very frequently with Adobe on many projects. Rufus has also been teaching graphic design to US students for over ten years.

Olav Martin Kvern

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Olav Martin Kvern is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, software developer, and writer. He is the author of Real World Adobe InDesign, Real World FreeHand, and the coauthor of the groundbreaking Real World PageMaker. He is currently the InDesign scripting guru on the Adobe Development Technologies team.

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, trainer, and author devoted to 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, printing companies and marketing professionals. She is the author of "Real World Print Production" (Peachpit Press, 2006), and a frequent presenter at industry conferences.

Branislav Milic

Brussels

Branislav Milic is one of Europe's most acclaimed InDesign gurus. Based in Brussels, Branislav is a freelance columnist and journalist for many web sites and magazines, and is known as an experienced DTP operator and editor of the only website completely dedicated to InDesign (since version 1.0 in September, 1999) : milic.net/indesign. Branislav is also an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor in Acrobat 7.0 Professional, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, Photoshop CS2 and his training center in Brussels is an Adobe Authorized Training Center. Due to the current InDesign frenzy among pressgroups, institutions, and agencies, he works as a full time consultant and trainer in a dozen European countries.

Michael Ninness

Michael Ninness moved to Seattle in 1989 to study for a Graphic Design BFA at the University of Washington. He paid his way through design school by teaching professional designers and photographers digital imaging tools and techniques. He also has over seven years experience in the graphics software industry as a product manager and user interface designer of products for creative professionals at Extensis, Microsoft, and Adobe. In early 2005, Michael returned to his training roots and joined the team at Lynda.com, an award-winning education provider of self-paced online video training, CD-ROMs, books and events for creative professionals. He is the author of several training videos including Photoshop Power Shortcuts and Photoshop CS2 Essential Training.

Thomas Phinney

Thomas Phinney is involved in the technical, design, historical, forensic and business aspects of type, as well as working closely with other font developers and customers. His typeface "Hypatia Sans" is an upcoming Adobe Originals release. Thomas started doing desktop publishing in 1987, and got hooked on typography shortly thereafter. He has worked with Adobe's type group for nine years, currently as program manager for fonts and SING technologies, based in Seattle. Thomas has a Master's degree in typography and design from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Dave Saunders

Brought up in Southampton, England, by the mid-70s he was ready to leap across the Atlantic to New Jersey, where he still lives. In the mid-80s, during the demise of the minicomputer industry, he crossed paths with PageMaker version 1.2, and in 1990, he and his eagle-eyed wife, Pam, launched their own business, PDS Associates. They specialize in automating publishing processes and have pumped out a seemingly endless series of textbooks using PageMaker and now InDesign with workflows built around extensive suites of scripts that Dave created to overcome the tediousness of staring at pages all day. He seized the opportunity to go cross-platform by embracing InDesign CS's JavaScript as his scripting language of choice. Thanks to his role as a host of the Adobe InDesign User-to-User forums, he is probably the best-known JavaScripter of InDesign in the world.

Peter Truskier

Peter Truskier is co-owner of Premedia Systems, Inc. With over 30 years experience in the graphic arts, his current work includes providing technical support to print service providers as well as software development and workflow automation.

Russell Viers

Russell Viers is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator who specializes in print production. He has spent the past 25 years of his career using the technology of the day, starting with CompuGraphic, then PageMaker, then XPress, prior to using InDesign. He travels the globe teaching newspaper and print production professionals who to get the most from the software. The slogan of his company DIGIVersity.TV is "You work too hard and I'm here to fix it."

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.

Brian Wood

Brian Wood, Director of Training and Co-Owner of eVolve Computer Graphics Training, is an Adobe Creative Suite 2 Master (certified in InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator and GoLive), and the author of InDesign CS2 Hands-On-Training, published by Peachpit Press, as well as InDesign and Illustrator CS2 video titles for Lynda.com. In addition to training eVolve¹s many clients, Brian has spoken at events hosted by GAG, AIGA, STC, XEROX, CASE and other organizations.