Real World Digital Photography: About the Authors

Katrin Eismann is an internationally recognized artist, author, and educator who has been working with digital imaging tools since 1989. She is the author of the award-winning Photoshop Restoration & Retouching (New Riders). This book, now in it's 2nd edition, is commonly regarded as the definitive source for using Photoshop to retouch and restore photographs. In 2004 she also authored the best-selling Photoshop Masking & Compositing (New Riders). Katrin's extensive teaching and speaking engagements address the latest tools and techniques of digital imaging and the impact they are having upon professional photographers, artists, and educators. She speaks German and English and has taught and presented in Europe, Asia, South America, and throughout North America.

Katrin studied photography and electronic still imaging at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Upon graduating at the top of her class in 1991, she had the good fortune to become the first intern at the Kodak Center of Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. Three years later she was the Director of Education and had implemented a rigorous curriculum that focused on imaging, design, and multimedia. In 2002 she received her MFA degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Katrin's website can be seen at www.photoshopdiva.com

Seán Duggan is a photographer and digital artist who combines a traditional fine art photographic background with extensive real world experience in the field of digital imaging. In addition to co-authoring Real World Digital Photography, he is a co-author of Photoshop CS Artistry, Mastering the Digital Image (New Riders), and an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert. His Photoshop tutorial column can be seen regularly in MacDesign magazine and he also writes articles on Photoshop and digital imaging for Digital Photo Pro , PhotoshopFIX and Outdoor Photographer magazines.

In an imaging career spanning more than twenty years, he has been a studio and location photographer, supervised the digital imaging department of a professional photo lab, and worked as a custom black & white darkroom printer. Equally at home with both low-tech and hi-tech approaches, his visual tool kit includes everything from pinhole cameras to 35mm and medium-format film SLRs, digital cameras and advanced digital imaging techniques. His photographs have been exhibited at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California and at galleries and exhibitions throughout California.

He is an instructor in the photography departments of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension in Silicon Valley, where he teaches regular classes on Digital Photography and Digital Imaging for Photographers. Seán provides Photoshop and imaging consulting services for photographers and companies and also teaches custom Photoshop and digital photography workshops at his studio in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Sean’s web site can be seen at www.seanduggan.com and he posts regularly to his photoblog at www.f1point4.com.

Tim Grey enjoys sharing information about digital imaging as much as he enjoys learning it in the first place.

Tim's love of photography and writing started with an effort to have a really easy course schedule one year in high school. He had completed his "real" courses, and needed to complete a number of elective courses to meet the graduation requirements. Seizing on the opportunity to "slack off" for a semester, his course schedule included photography and journalism. Part of the appeal was that these courses would be fun. Little did he know that they would become the foundation of his future work. With a strong background in computers, Tim is well-suited for the digital darkroom, and has developed a great deal of knowledge on all aspects of digital imaging.

Tim does a great deal of writing related to the use of digital tools in photography. He regularly contributes articles to magazines such as Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro and PC Photo magazines. He has also written for PEI, Digital Capture, NaturePhotographers.net, ApogeePhoto.com, and others. Tim is editor of The Digital Image, published quarterly by George Lepp & Associates. Tim also publishes an almost-daily Digital Darkroom Questions (DDQ) e-mail service, where he answers questions related to the digital darkroom.

Tim is also the author of Color Confidence: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Color Management,(Sybex) and the co-author of Photo Finish: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Printing, Showing and Selling Images, (Sybex).

Besides writing, Tim also lectures and teaches courses on digital imaging, including a number of courses at the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging.

With such a busy schedule, Tim doesn't get much time to actually take pictures. When time allows, he enjoys photographing birds, flowers, and just about anything else that catches his eye near his home in Redmond, Washington.