About the Authors

The authors are experts of photography and image retouching.

Their emphasis is primarily on practical application, in refreshing contrast to the vast majority of theoretical approaches in today's image editing industry.

Birgit Nitzsche has been working in photography for 20 years. The main focus areas of her work are business and lifestyle. Her experience stems from international photo projects as well as her own studio in Munich (Germany). For the last 15 years, she has been working with the composer and Photoshop lecturer

Karsten Rose (Macromedia Academy of Media, Photoshop-Convention), who is known from his many seminars and workshop. Together they have managed to perfect the interplay between photo-shooting and digital image editing.

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