About the Author

Scott Kelby

Scott is Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine, Editor and Publisher of Layers magazine (the how-to magazine for everything Adobe), and is Executive Editor of the Photoshop Elements Techniques newsletter.

Scott is President and co-founder of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and is President of the software training, education, and publishing firm KW Media Group.

Scott is a photographer, designer, and award-winning author of more than 37 books, including Photoshop Elements Down & Dirty Tricks, The Digital Photography Book, Photoshop Classic Effects, and is Series Editor for the Killer Tips books series from New Riders. His books are translated into dozens of different languages, including Russian, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Dutch, and Taiwanese, among others. For the past two years straight Scott was awarded the distinction of being the world's No. 1 best-selling author of all computer and technology books, across all categories.

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 Adobe Photoshop training DVDs and has been training Adobe Photoshop users since 1993.

For more information on Scott, visit scottkelby.com.