About the Author

Phillip Whitt is an author and small business owner. His professional experience spans more than three decades. Many of those years were spent in marketing and advertising managerial roles in the retail building materials business. Since 2000, Mr. Whitt has owned and operated a film-to-video and image editing/design business. Over the years, he’s learned that budgeting is an important factor that helps contribute to the bottom line of any business.

Phillip Whitt the author of Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP (Apress Publishing). He is trained and certified in the use of a number of open source software programs such as OpenOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and Ubuntu Linux.