About Deke McClelland

Electronic publishing pioneer Deke McClelland is a popular lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and the larger realm of computer graphics and design. He has hosted the in-box "Video Workshop" DVDs that shipped with many versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for industry leaders lynda.com and, prior to that, Total Training. In addition to his video work, Deke has written over 80 books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print. These included many For Dummies books and the bestselling title ever published on Photoshop, the Photoshop Bible. (He has since parted ways with that knucklehead publisher.)

One of the most award-winning writers in the technology market, Deke received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book in 1989. Since then, he has garnered more than 30 honors, including seven independent citations from the Computer Press Association and an elegant-looking Russian citation that he's never been able to read. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Association of Photoshop's Photoshop Hall of Fame. (Interestingly, this was Deke's second Hall of Fame induction. His first one was in high school for his art and theater work. Another interesting twist: In Deke's high school, there actually is a hall.)

In 2004 Deke created the One-on-One™ book series, which uses video, step-by-step exercises, and hundreds of full-color illustrations to provide readers with the closest thing possible to private instruction from a recognized expert. These ambitious, self-paced guides include the bestselling Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One and Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One. Late in 2006 Deke teamed up with vanguard online training company lynda.com to bring the One-on-One training strategy to a line of video products, beginning with Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One, the first series available for the public beta of Photoshop CS3. His other One-on-One videos include Photoshop CS3 One-on-One, Illustrator One-on-One, and InDesign One-on-One: Style Sheets.

In the design and graphics space, lynda.com is the most popular video training company and Deke is the company's most popular and award-winning trainer. In 2007 and 2008, his videos (which also include Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks and Photoshop CS3 Sharpening Images) have won an unprecedented nine industry awards, including The Communicator, Horizon Interactive, Omni Intermedia, Ava Platinum, DV, and Hermes Creative Awards; two Videographer Awards; and the highly coveted 29th Annual Telly Award.

In Summer 2008, Deke introduced dekePod, his series of free, irreverent, once-every-other-weekly videos on computer graphics and digital imaging.

Deke is an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, and a regular speaker for the Photoshop Fling cruise seminars. Deke lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, two super-powered monkey boys, dog, cat, turtle, three-year-old tadpole, and frog. Not to mention a bunch of bugs that the youngest child keeps hiding in his room.