Foreword

I wear a lot of hats at my day job, where since 1999 I lead a company dedicated to teaching people Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography. One of my roles there (and one I particularly enjoy) is my role as Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. That’s a fancy-sounding name for “the guy who gets to choose who speaks at the conference.” It’s a job I take very seriously.

People from all over the world come to this three-day conference and we had decided from the very beginning that if this truly was going to be a world-class event, we had to hire nothing but absolutely the very best instructors on earth—the thing that would make our conference so unique. If you come to Photoshop World as an attendee, you know ...

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