Ben Willmore | |
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 Willmore in 2015 | |
| Born | 17 June 1967 |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Photography |
| Notable work | Up to Speed, Photoshop Studio Techniques, Crafting the Landscape |
| Movement | Photoshop |
| Awards | Photoshop Hall of Fame |
Ben Willmore is an American photographer, author and founder of Digital Mastery, a training and consulting firm that specializes in photography and digital imaging. He is best known for his digital imaging expertise and for writing the book Photoshop Studio Techniques.
Willmore, who attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is a Photoshop instructor [1] and a featured speaker at publishing conferences and events. He has contributed to MacWorld magazine [2] and had a monthly column in Photoshop User magazine. His book, Photoshop Studio Techniques is printed in nine languages: English, French, German, Greek, Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Japanese, Polish.
In 2004, Willmore was a recipient of a Photoshop Hall of Fame Award. [3]
Up to Speed, one of Willmore's books, was described in Rob Galbraith's blog as "perhaps the most useful book we've picked up on Photoshop in a long time ... because it painstakingly outlines what's new in CS2." [4] About his book Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques, Blogcritics' T. Michael Testi wrote that it "covers all of the fundamental techniques that you need to become proficient with Photoshop and it shows you how to accomplish tasks by teaching." [5]
Willmore is known for the decade of time he spent living full-time on a 40-foot motorcoach that he used to photograph America in between speaking engagements.
He spent eight years restoring a 1963 Flxible Starliner bus [6] which he spent a year living on full-time before purchasing a home in Clearwater, Florida. The bus has been named the Creative Cruiser and has appeared on the Extreme RVs TV show #502 "Keep on Trucking" Season 5, Episode 2 [7]
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