Annesa Hartman

About Annesa:

Annesa Hartman holds a Masters in Teaching with Internet Technologies, focusing her attention on instructional design for online technologies, and web and graphic design concepts and programs. Currently, she is the Manager of the Technology Learning Center at Landmark College in Vermont, where she coordinates and instructs technology teaching and learning programs for the college’s faculty, staff and students. She also teaches computer graphic courses online, and is the author of a previous book called “Producing Interactive Television”. When she is not pushing pixels, she is digging dirt in her garden or teaching yoga classes.
Formerly, Annesa was the director and Softimage instructor for Mesmer Animation Labs in Seattle, Wa (1994-1998) and was co-founder and consultant for Sway Design, Inc (2000-2002). Specializing in graphic art production, corporate training, online learning, and curriculum development. Annesa has developed and taught unique training programs for Accenture, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, AOL/Moviefone, St. John's University, and Macromedia. Annesa also is a certified Photoshop instructor and was the subject matter expert and curriculum designer for Macromedia's Design Techniques with Flash course.

contact: ahartman@landmark.edu

Behind Exploring Illustrator and Exploring Photoshop:

I’m a teacher at heart, and enjoy finding creative instructional approaches to computer technology and graphics’ learning and training. The writing of the Exploring Illustrator and Exploring Photoshop books is just another opportunity for me to find ways to engage the artistic learner, and share from my own experience the successes and pitfalls of working innovatively with a medium comprised of a bunch of zeros and ones, bits and bytes, pixels and light.
When writing software books there are many challenges; mainly, the short time frame in which to write the books, and the creation and acquisition of the materials, lessons sources, and images for the book. I tend to find my material for the books through close friends, family, and professional colleagues. For example, most of all the photographs used in the creation of the lessons were taken by my mother, Carolyn, who is never without a camera around her neck, as she is a graphic artist by profession. Many of the ideas for the actual lessons come from instructors of Illustrator and Photoshop at Modesto Junior College, where I am an adjunct online instructor, alumni, and daughter of one of the college’s devoted fine arts and computer graphics faculty, Terry Hartman. Also, the Adventures in Design scenarios throughout the books are actual experiences I have had or colleagues have had with clients.
As an author, my hope is to stay true to my own experience with these programs and along the way ignite the creative sparks of my students and readers. - Annesa Hartman

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