About the Author

Scott Kelby

Scott is Editor, Publisher, and co-founder of Photoshop User magazine, is Publisher of Light it! digital magazine, and is co-host of the weekly video-casts The Grid (the weekly 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 award-winning author of more than 50 books, including The Digital Photography Book, volumes 1, 2, and 3, 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.

For the past two 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 training DVDs and online courses, and has been training photographers and Adobe Photoshop users since 1993.

For more information on Scott, visit him at:

His daily blog: www.scottkelby.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/@scottkelby
Facebook: www.facebook.com/skelby
Google+: Scottgplus.com