Our Photoshop Writing Team
Barbara Zukin Heiman, Ph.D.
I have been teaching in the Computer Studies Department at Santa Rosa Junior College since 1990, and have taught a wide range of courses from operating systems and telecommunications to desktop publishing, graphics, and Web design. In the summer of 1995, I taught the first computer classes in Photoshop in our department —on version 2.5. I have since developed and taught Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced Photoshop as well as classes in photo restoration and digital archiving. I am Adobe Certified in Photoshop versions 5, 6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4 and Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. (No CS5 tests yet.) This will be my sixteenth year teaching beginning Photoshop.
My Ph.D is in Anthropology from UC Berkeley where I studied the evolution and the biological foundations of language. It has been a logical jump from natural languages (the kind people speak, not "natural" programming languages) to programming languages, and then to communicating in pixels and web.
Donald Laird
I've been teaching in the Computer Studies Department at Santa Rosa Junior College since 1993, during which time I've taught a wide range of courses. Over the last several years I've specialized in Photoshop. I have taught Intro, Intermediate, and Advanced Photoshop as well as our photo restoration class, Fixing Photoshop Images. I am Adobe Certified in all Photoshop versions from 5 to CS4. I will re-certify in CS5 as soon as the test is available.
When I'm not teaching, I seem to have no trouble finding things to keep me busy:
Corrine Haverinen
Designer of the Practical Photoshop CS5 cover
I have a Fine Arts background, earning a B.A. in Fine Arts from Washington State University in 1980. I moved to San Francisco in 1982 where I worked as a graphic artist and continued to work on drawing and painting. In 1996, I moved to Sonoma County. After dropping in to Santa Rose Junior College to take courses in web design, I taught in the CIS Department in 2001-2003. I have been working at the college's Center for Advanced Technology in Education since 2000. My specialties are web design and lately accessability.
Windsor Green
I have a BFA in Photography from University of San Francisco/Academy of Art University. I have taught at SR JC for about 10 years. Before that I worked as a photographer for newspapers, and before that I owned a photography studio in San Francisco, shooting magazine ads and catalogues. After spending many hours a day in the darkroom, I found that I love the possibilities of Photoshop, and don't miss the chemicals at all. Photoshop allows you to reproduce images much more easily, with much more control doing it. I have been an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop since version 5.5 and certified in Adobe InDesign versions CS3 and CS4.
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