World-Class Seminar Instructors

Scott Kelby

Editor, Photoshop User magazine

Scott is editor and publisher of Photoshop User magazine and Layers magazine (the how-to magazine for everything Adobe). He also is the president and co-founder of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and president of the software training, education, and publishing firm Kelby Media Group.

Scott is a photographer, designer, and an award-winning author of more than 40 books, including Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, The Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers, The 7-Point System, The Photoshop Channels Book, Photoshop Classic Effects, and The Digital Photography Book.

Since 2004, Scott has been awarded the distinction of being the world's #1 best-selling author of all computer and technology books, across all categories. His books have been translated into dozens of different languages, including Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Taiwanese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, and Portuguese, among others, and he is a recipient of the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award.

In addition, Scott is training director for Kelby Training and technical chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. He's featured in a series of Adobe Photoshop training DVDs and has been training Adobe Photoshop users since 1993. For more information on Scott, visit scottkelby.com.

Bert Monroy

Artist, Author and Lecturer

Bert Monroy is considered one of the pioneers of digital art. He co-authored The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook, which was the first book on Photoshop and the only one for almost two years. His current books, Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy and Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy, concentrate on the techniques he's developed in the creation of his work. He is a contributing columnist for Photoshop User magazine, and has lectured at many institutions and conferences around the world. Bert was induced into NAPP's Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2004.

Ben Willmore

Best-Selling Author

Ben Willmore is author of the award-winning, best-selling book, Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques and co-author of another bestseller, How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography. His hit seminars, "Photoshop Mastery" and "Photoshop for Photographers", have established Ben as one of America's favorite Photoshop instructors. He has personally helped over 30,000 design and photography professionals make the transition from blindly following step-by-step techniques, to "Aha! I finally GET Photoshop!" His breakthrough teaching style of "not-just-how-but-why" has made Ben the in-house instructor of choice for companies such as Mercedes Benz, Adobe Systems, America Online, and Fisher-Price. He's a member of the Dream Team for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), a featured speaker at design and photography conferences in America, England, and Australia, and writes for numerous digital imaging publications, including a monthly column for Photoshop User magazine. In 2004, Ben was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Dave Cross

Author and Trainer

Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education and Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is involved in all aspects of the training that is provided to NAPP members, including the content of seminars, conferences and workbooks. He also creates very popular weekly QuickTime-based tutorials that appear on the members' website. Dave is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2 and is a Certified Technical Trainer.

Terry White

Technical Resources Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Terry has been with Adobe for over a decade and has extensive knowledge of Adobe's Creative Professional product line. In his current position as Sr. Product Specialists Manager for North America, Terry leads a team of Solution Engineers that focus on Professional Publishing, Web Authoring, and Digital Video.

Terry is an Adobe Certified Expert and Creative Suite Master, and has been active in the industry for over 20 years. He is the founder and president of MacGroup Detroit - Michigan's largest Macintosh users group and is a columnist for Layers magazine and X-Ology Magazine.

Terry is the host of the top-ranked Adobe Creative Suite Podcast, and the best selling author of Secrets of the Adobe Bridge and co-author of InDesign CS/CS2 Killer Tips. Terry is a key presenter at major industry shows around the world.

Taz Tally

Artist, Author and Lecturer

Dr. Taz Tally is President of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer publishing, consulting, and training company. Taz is the author of numerous books, including his most recent book Acrobat and PDF Solutions, as well as Electronic Publishing: Avoiding The Output Blues a textbook on electronic publishing fundamentals and Postscript file preparation, and Avoiding The Scanning Blues, a comprehensive guide to desktop scanning, which was chosen as a featured selection of the DoubleDay book club. In addition, Taz has published the UMAX MagicScan Manual and SilverFast: The Official Guide, which are distributed worldwide.