About the Author

Scott is Editor, Publisher, and co-founder of Photoshop User magazine, is Publisher of Light It! and Lightroom digital magazines, and is co-host of the weekly webcasts The Grid (a photography talk show) and Photoshop User TV.

He is President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), the trade association for Adobe^® Photoshop^® users, and he’s 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 50 books, including The Digital Photography Book, parts 1, 2, 3, & 4, The Adobe Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image, and The iPhone Book. His book, The Digital Photography Book, part 1, is now the top-selling book on digital photography ever.

For the past three years, Scott has been honored with the distinction of being the world’s #1 best-selling author of books on photography. 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.

Scott is Training Director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, and Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. He’s featured in a series of online courses (from KelbyTraining.com), and has been training photographers and Adobe Photoshop users since 1993. He is also the founder of Scott Kelby’s Annual Worldwide Photowalk, the largest global social event for photographers, which brings tens of thousands of photographers together on one day each year to shoot in over a thousand cities worldwide.

For more information on Scott, visit him at:

His daily blog: http://scottkelby.com

Twitter: @scottkelby

Facebook: www.facebook.com/skelby

Google+: Scottgplus.com