Ben Willmore is an American
photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
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, author and founder of Digital Mastery, a training and consulting firm that specializes in photography and Photoshop. He is best known for his
digital imaging
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expertise and for writing the book Photoshop Studio Techniques.
Career
Willmore, who attended the
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is a private college specializing in the visual arts and located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MCAD currently enrolls approximately 800 students. MCAD is one of just a few major art schools to offer ...
and the
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is a Photoshop instructor and a featured speaker at publishing conferences and events. He is a regular contributor to
MacWorld magazine and had a monthly column in ''
Photoshop User'' magazine. His book, ''Photoshop Studio Techniques'' is printed in nine languages: English, French, German, Greek, Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Japanese, Polish.
In 2004, Willmore was a recipient of a Photoshop Hall of Fame Award.
''Up to Speed'', one of Willmore's books, was described in Rob Galbraith's blog as "perhaps the most useful book we've picked up on Photoshop in a long time ... because it painstakingly outlines what's new in CS2." About his book ''Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques'',
Blogcritics' T. Michael Testi wrote that it "covers all of the fundamental techniques that you need to become proficient with Photoshop and it shows you how to accomplish tasks by teaching."
Willmore lives in a 40-foot bus and spends his time photographing America in between speaking engagements.
Books
*''Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Studio Techniques'' (1999, Adobe Press) ()
*''Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Studio Techniques'' (2001, Adobe Press) ()
*''Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques'' (2002, Adobe Press) ( paperback, eBook)
*''Adobe Photoshop CS Studio Techniques'' (2004, Adobe Press) ()
*''Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques'' (2005, Adobe Press) ()
*''Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques'' (2007, Adobe Press) ()
*''Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques'' (2009, Adobe Press) ()
*''Adobe Photoshop CS2: Up to Speed'' (2005,
Peachpit Press
Peachpit is a publisher of books focused on graphic design, web design, and development. Peachpit's parent company is Pearson Education, which owns additional educational media brands including Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, and New Riders.
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*''Adobe Photoshop CS3: Up to Speed'' (2007,
Peachpit Press
Peachpit is a publisher of books focused on graphic design, web design, and development. Peachpit's parent company is Pearson Education, which owns additional educational media brands including Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, and New Riders.
Fo ...
) ()
*''Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed'' (2008,
Peachpit Press
Peachpit is a publisher of books focused on graphic design, web design, and development. Peachpit's parent company is Pearson Education, which owns additional educational media brands including Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, and New Riders.
Fo ...
) ()
*''How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography'' (2004, Peachpit Press) ()
References
External links
digitalmastery.com Official Digital Mastery sitePublisher's biography of Willmore
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American photographers
American technology writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)