Sean Duggan

Sean 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. He is a co-author of Real World Digital Photography (2nd Edition, Peachpit Press, 2003), Photoshop CS Artistry, Mastering the Digital Image (New Riders, 2004), and is an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert. In addition to writing the Photoshop tutorials for Layers magazine, he has also penned articles on Photoshop and digital imaging for Digital Photo Pro, Mac Design, PhotoshopFIX, PCPhoto, and Outdoor Photographer magazines.

In an imaging career spanning more than twenty years, he has been a studio and location photographer, worked as a custom black & white darkroom printer and has supervised the digital imaging department of a professional photo lab. 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 SLRs and advanced 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. He also teaches annual workshops at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, the Palm Beach Photographic Workshops, the Golden Gate School of Professional Photography and the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging. 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 websites can be seen at www.seanduggan.com and www.digitalphotobook.net. He also posts regularly to his photoblog at www.f1point4.com.