About the Instructors
Sonja Shea:
Sonja has been a private beta tester for Paint Shop Pro for the past five versions of the program and is currently a C-Tech Volunteer for PSP. She has been an instructor at Leader in Virtual Studies Online Classes (LVS Online), which is a Corel Training Partner, for the past 6 years.
Sonja has worked as a technical editor on a number of beginner-level Paint Shop Pro and Photography titles by Thomson Course Technology PTR. Sonja is also an active moderator on several graphic filter lists. Even with her busy schedule, she still finds time to help “newbies” become successful with their new software purchases.
Sonja’s web site: www.psptoybox.com/
Carol Bartl:
Carol has been a Medical Technologist, Oil Painter, and Computer Programmer & Consultant. She is also wife, mother of 3, and grandmother of 5 (so far). Her current passion is digital photography with those grandkids being favorite subjects.
Since Carol bought her first computer in 1981 she has never stopped using one. One of her favorite things to do is learn. Discovering that she could learn without leaving the computer (i.e. on-line classes) has been wonderful.
Carol lives in Wisconsin and has a house in Florida where she hides away occasionally. She travels often; at this time most of her travels take her where her grandkids live.
Carol’s web site: http://www.cewbit.com
Sally Beacham:
Sally is the author of two books (along with fellow LVS instructors Ron Lacey and Lori Davis.) Paint Shop Pro 8 Zero to Hero from Apress/Friends of Ed, as well as Digital Scrapbooking, from Course Technology, are both available at national and local booksellers, as well as Amazon.com.
Sally has been writing about and teaching Paint Shop Pro for many years, and has been a private tester for Corel, Jasc, Auto FX, Alienskin, Microsoft and many other software companies. She’s been a featured presenter at CorelWorld. Her work has been featured in Simple Scrapbooks magazine, Making Memories Magazine and several scrapbook design books. Sally’s web site, www.dizteq.com is devoted to Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop-compatible plugin filters, and she has a special section, Dizteq Scrapstuff, with information and resources for digital scrapbookers.
Sally is currently teaching Paint Shop Pro and digital scrapbooking locally as well as online. Sally has a husband, John, son Wade, daughters Emilie and Brittanie, a soon-to-be third generation kidlet on the way (tentatively named Theodore Beckett), and kitty children Einstein,Moussie and Dame Edna Hilary. She sleeps every February 29, and occasional Ground Hog Days.
Sally’s web site: www.dizteq.com
Lori Davis:
Lori has been a writer and teacher in one form or another for most of her life. She has authored and coauthored several books on Paint Shop Pro, has coauthored two books on digital scrapbooking, and has contributed to Digital Camera Magazine. Over the course of more than a decade, Lori has taught online classes on computer graphics and basic JavaScript. And a few years back, she presented workshops on masking and on brushes in PSP at CorelWorld.
For fun, Lori explores a number of graphics programs and plugin filters, enjoys both film and digital photography, dabbles in several crafts, and gardens.
Lori’s web site: loriweb.pair.com
Phyllis List:
Phyllis is a retired paralegal with 25 years experience in the field, and has been a computer user for almost as long. Beginning with the first magnetic card typewriters in the early 70s Phyllis continued on to running a BBS in the early 90s, before deciding it was WAY too much work. She moved from there to the Net, web and graphic design in 1996 where she, both with a partner and as a sole designer, designs business and corporate websites. Phyllis has been using PSP in its various versions since 1996, and says that the day she stops learning is the day she’ll lie down and give up the ghost.
Phyllis’s web site: Wolfie’s Joint
Peggy Taranenko:
Animation Shop Peggy worked in the airline industry for 25 years, some of that time as a trainer who taught computer programs. The skills that Peggy learned working with the general public, writing technical help manuals, and supervising others, has lead her into a new endeavor – teaching classes online. Peggy is PC user with over 10 year’s experience. One day soon, she hopes to know it all and make the internet a better, prettier place by using the knowledge she has gleaned from all the others willing to teach.
Peggy’s web site: www.flashpowdergraphics.com
