Ken Milburn: Digital Photographer/Digital Photography/Photoshop Expert

Ken Milburn started his career as a professional photographer when he was still in high school by specializing in weddings and portraits of his classmates. Since then, his photographic career has included starlet publicity photos for Universal Pictures, album covers for several labels (including Capitol Records), editorial work for a number of publications (including The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and TV Guide), and for a long list of advertising clients (including Southern California Gas, Cole of California, Strega Liqueurs, and the Fleur Corporation).

He also sells his photographs and digital art at art festivals and fine art galleries. This work has been featured three times in Design Graphics Magazine and twice in Computer Graphics World.

Milburn's photographic career has been paralleled by a long career as a writer. He started by writing two feature films.

Most of his writing, however, has been in the form of columns, how-to articles, and technical books on the subject of computer graphics. He has written over 300 columns and articles (many of which have featured his photographs) for such national trade magazines as Publish, DV Magazine, MacWorld, Computer Graphics World, PC World, and InfoWorld.

He has also been a contributing editor and columnist for Computer Currents and MicroTimes.

In addition, Ken Milburn is the principal author of 20 computer books. The most recent of these is Digital Photography: Expert Techniques from O’Reilly Associates as one of the first books in their studio series. The majority of Ken’s other books focus on various versions on Photoshop and digital photography.

Ken is the author of both the first and second editions of The Digital Photography Bible (Wiley) as well as Digital Photography, 99 Easy Tips to Make You Look Like a Pro, and Cliff’s Notes on Taking and Sharing Digital Photographs. His Photoshop books include Photoshop Elements 2.0 Complete (Osborne), The Photoshop 7 Virtual Classroom (with live-motion lessons on the CD-ROM), Master Visually Photoshop 6.0, Master Visually Photoshop 5.5, and Photoshop 5.5 Get Professional Results.


Ken has also taken his Photoshop and digital photography expertise to an even broader user base by working as a contributing editor for the MSNPhoto Web site, and authoring user hints for the PhotoWorks on-line film processing and printing service and authoring 100 Ways to get More from Your Digital Camera (Virtual Training Company).