Colleen Wheeler

Sacramento, California

Areas of Expertise:

Photoshop Elements

Adobe InDesign

Biography

Colleen Wheeler is the author of Photoshop Elements 8 One-on-One with Deke McClelland, editor of Digital Media titles at O'Reilly, and the Voice of Wisdom at dekeOnline. She is also the host of a weekly podcast, the Martini Hour, with aforementioned Computer Graphics Rockstar Deke McClelland, in which they sip cocktails and discuss the burning digital imaging issues of the day.

A sampling of recent book projects includes The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion, The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, Second Edition by Peter Krogh, Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few, and The New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg.

Colleen is currently trying to become a late-blooming Adobe InDesign expert, which is having the side-effect of making her a discerning consumer of software instructional material and a better, more compassionate editor. She considers herself lucky to work with smart, creative, geeky people all day, then go home to her son who shows definite signs of being all of the above.

Books

Photoshop Elements 8 One-on-One
by Deke McClelland , Colleen Wheeler
November 2009
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $35.99

Articles

You need to enable JavaScript to view more than 15 articles by this author. Deke McClelland's Video Tour of the Channels Palette
Publish Date: Jan. 15, 2009Photoshop masking isn't easy, in fact, the elusive alpha channel has been described as the least understood feature in Photoshop's enormous arsenal. In this video from Lesson 1 of Photoshop CS4 Channels & Mask One-on-One, Photoshop Guru Deke McClelland gives you a tour of the Channels palette in Photoshop. This handy palette is truly Command Central for your Photoshop masking operations. Basic Tonal Control in Lightroom 1.1
Publish Date: Aug. 29, 2007Using Lightroom's Develop module, you can do a lot to bring out the best tonal qualities of your images. Lightroom has easy-to-use sliders that allow you to react to the Exposure, Highlight/Shadow, and Brightness/Contrast needs of your images. In this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, Mikkel gives you a lushly illustrated overview of how to use the sliders in the Lightroom Develop module to quickly, easily, and satisfyingly make a variety of technical and aesthetic improvements to your photos. The Lightroom 1.1 Develop Module Revealed
Publish Date: Jul. 26, 2007In Lightroom's 1.1 Develop module, you'll find sophisticated yet easy to use tone and color developing controls. Other tools in the Develop module provide basic retouching ability, plus cropping, straightening and more. Our excerpt from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure provides a guided tour of Lightroom 1.1's shining glory. The Lightroom 1.1 Library Revealed
Publish Date: Jul. 3, 2007In Lightroom's 1.1 Library module, you can edit, rate and sort images, add keywords and perform basic image processing on one or multiple images at the same time. Join us for a quick tour of its key elements, including an explanation of the new "catalogs" (formerly known as libraries) concept. Creating Identity Plates in Lightroom
Publish Date: Mar. 14, 2007You can personalize the Lightroom environment by creating Identity Plates that appear throughout the application for a nice aesthetic touch. They also have very practical purposes as they can be used to identify slideshows, web galleries, and prints. Here’s how to set up an Identity Plate of your own. Organizing the Lightroom Workspace
Publish Date: Feb. 22, 2007The Lightroom workspace is extremely malleable. You can easily enlarge or shrink the various windows to suit your viewing and working preferences, whether you are on a laptop in the field or your cinema display in the studio. In this downloadable PDF excerpt from Photoshop Lightroom Aventure - Mastering Adobe's next-generation tool for digital photographers, Mikkel Aaland takes you on a short Lightroom tour of the workspace. Lightroom Revealed: The Modules
Publish Date: Jan. 30, 2007Lightroom is designed to streamline the process of importing, processing, and sharing your digital images. Although much can be discovered by simply experimenting on your own, there is a lot to the application that doesn't immediately meet the eye. In this first in a series of downloadable PDF excerpts from his book "Photoshop Lightroom Adventure - Mastering Adobe's next-generation tool for digital photographers," Mikkel Aaland gives you a quick overview of each of the modules available in Lightroom 1.0 (Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print, and Web).

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