2021 Instructors

Karl Hill

Karl is an experienced Adobe Certified Trainer, technical writer, publisher, and consultant with Adobe Systems. He is an author and developer for Adobe After Effects, Premiere, and Illustrator ACE exams. Throughout his extensive career, he has provided training for a variety of clients including corporate, small business and individuals. Karl is certified to teach a long list of Adobe applications, including: Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Captivate, After Effects, Audition, Premiere Pro, and more.

Karl was also an Apple Consultant Network expert for 3 Years, specializing in Apple Final Cut Pro non-linear video editing, and he is a professional musician featured on recordings and live radio and TV performances with Ginger Baker.

Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher is an Adobe Certified Instructor with over 20 years experience developing enterprise-scale applications with ColdFusion for both the public and private sector. As ColdFusion Developer, he can speak to all aspects of web development: business logic, back-end architecture, unit testing, monitoring, optimization, implementation with RDBMS and others application server and/or gateway (i.e. AJAX, RESTful WebServices).

David Creamer

Sean Gallagher is an Adobe Certified Instructor with over 20 years experience developing enterprise-scale applications David Creamer of IDEAS Training is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Adobe Certified Expert since 1995. Starting with a background in traditional publishing since 1980, Creamer branched into web design and video production as markets have changed. He is an award-winning art/production director of multiple publications and has designed/produced hundreds of other various products for print, web, and video. Creamer teaches virtually the entire Adobe Creative Cloud software, the Adobe Technical Communication Suite software, the Microsoft Office, TechSmith Camtasia, and Articulate Storyline.

Jeff Schafer

Jeff Shaffer is an Adobe Certified Instructor, with extensive experience teaching Photoshop, Lightroom, and After Effects, both online and onsite. His advertising photography and video production has garnered numerous awards from art director’s clubs and other publication design groups. Based in Philadelphia, he has worked on national ad campaigns and annual reports for such prominent clients as Pfizer, Neiman Marcus, Ralph Lauren, Tanqueray, and Heineken. Jeff’s fine-art photography draws its inspiration from futuristic cinema and graphic novels, relying heavily on post-production manipulation in the style of computer graphics. He refined those skills while earning his Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography degree from New York’s prestigious School of Visual Arts, and then as an adjunct instructor in that same program.

Mike Witherell

Mike Witherell has been a moderator on the InDesign User Forum, an Adobe Community Professional, a DC Area InDesign User Group founding member, and a featured speaker at public events continuously for over a decade. Mike is a Certified Technical Trainer and Adobe Certified Master Expert (ACE) in InDesign, InCopy, Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator. His publishing and training experience spans over 20 years.

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