Ben Willmore
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| works = Up to Speed, Photoshop Studio Techniques, Crafting the Landscape
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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.
Career
Willmore, who attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is a Photoshop instructor{{cite web|last=Sorrel |first=Charlie |url=https://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/12/twelve-strobe-r/ |title=Twelve Strobe Rig Blots Out the Sun | Gadget Lab |website=Wired.com |date=1959-02-06 |accessdate=2013-02-11}} and a featured speaker at publishing conferences and events. He has contributed to MacWorld magazine{{cite magazine|last=Blatner |first=David |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1040637/novcreate.html |title=Photoshop Top Tips |magazine=Macworld |date=2004-11-11 |accessdate=2013-02-15}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://photoshophalloffame.com/inductees/ben-willmore/ |title=Ben Willmore |publisher=Photoshop Hall of Fame |accessdate=2013-02-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902002713/http://photoshophalloffame.com/inductees/ben-willmore/ |archivedate=2012-09-02 }}
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."{{cite web |url=http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-7885-7944 |title=Rob Galbraith DPI: Three books that changed our digital world |publisher=Robgalbraith.com |accessdate=2013-02-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121053422/http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-7885-7944 |archivedate=2013-01-21 }} 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."{{cite web |url=http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-adobe-photoshop-cs3-studio/page-3/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414125449/http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-adobe-photoshop-cs3-studio/page-3/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-14 |title=Book Review: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques By Ben Willmore - Page 3 - Blogcritics Books |publisher=Blogcritics.org |date=2008-03-07 |accessdate=2013-02-15 }}
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{{cite web|url=http://creativecruiser.com |title=Creative Cruiser project web site |accessdate=2024-02-06|archive-date=29 Jan 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129081649/http://creativecruiser.com/|url-status=live}} 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{{cite web|url=https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/extreme-rvs/episodes/keep-on-truckin |title=Travel Channel Episode web page |accessdate=2024-02-06|archive-date=23 Mar 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323042543/https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/extreme-rvs/episodes/keep-on-truckin|url-status=live}}
Books
- Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Studio Techniques (1999, Adobe Press) ({{ISBN|978-1568304748}})
- Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Studio Techniques (2001, Adobe Press) ({{ISBN|978-0201716122}})
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques (2002, Adobe Press) ({{ISBN|978-0-321-11563-8}})
- Adobe Photoshop CS Studio Techniques (2004, Adobe Press) ({{ISBN|978-0-321-21352-5}})
- Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques (2005, Adobe Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321321893}})
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques (2007, Adobe Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321510464}})
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques (2009, Adobe Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321613103}})
- Adobe Photoshop CS2: Up to Speed (2005, Peachpit Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321330505}})
- Adobe Photoshop CS3: Up to Speed (2007, Peachpit Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321514295}})
- Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed (2008, Peachpit Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321580054}})
- How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography (2004, Peachpit Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321227997}})
- How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography-Second Edition (2005, Peachpit Press) ({{ISBN|978-0321357502}})
- The PhotoshopWorld Dream Team Book (2005, Peachpit Press) ({{ISBN|978-0735714212}})
- Crafting the Landscape Photograph with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop (2023, Rocky Nook) ({{ISBN| 978-1681989891}})
References
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External links
- [http://www.digitalmastery.com/ digitalmastery.com Official Digital Mastery site]
- [https://mastersacademy.com/ mastersacademy.com Official Training site]
- [https://rockynook.com/author-info/ben-willmore-9999/ Rocky Nook Publisher's biography of Willmore]
- [http://www.peachpit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=5ea7f8b1-ff2e-4fec-98fa-5c928ca56e75 Publisher's biography of Willmore]
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Category:American photographers