9/6/01 - Tampa, FL - The Agfa Bookstore, a division of the Agfa Corporation and a Platinum sponsor of Photoshop World East Conference, is proud to sponsor "Meet the Authors" at the event being held at the Tampa Conference Center in Tampa, Florida on September 6th, 7th and 8th "The Meet the Author" program will allow attendees to personally meet some of the most respected Photoshop gurus and authors of numerous books; Jack Davis, Deke McClelland, and Ben Willmore and other authors will be present. The authors will also be conducting Photoshop workshops during the three day conference devoted to Adobe Photoshop software. The authors books will be among dozens of digital imaging, Photoshop, Illustrator, and web design books on sale at the Agfa Bookstore in the Photoshop World exhibit area. Their books can also be purchased on line at http://www.agfabooks.com/photoshop.html. Meet the Author Schedule: 9/7/01 Noon to 12:30pm & 9/8/01 10:00am to 10:30am: Jack Davis, author of the Photoshop 6.0 WOW Book (just out), the Web Design Wow Book and other books 9/7/01 2:30pm to 3:00pm & 9/8/01 2:30pm to 3:00pm: Deke McClelland, author of the Photoshop 6.0 Bible, Photoshop 6.0 Look and Learn, Real World Digital Photography, and Real World Adobe Illustrator 9.0 9/7/01 3:00pm to 3:30pm  & 9/8/01 Noon to 12:30pm Ben Willmore, author of Photoshop 6.0 Studio Techniques (just out) Photoshop World East is expanding on Photoshop World West held in April 2001, by including: New Sessions and expansion of sessions attendees indicated they liked best at prior conferences, including new sessions on Photoshop Shapes, more retouching sessions, more digital-camera specific sessions, a new Web animation session, and a new session on unlocking the power of Type in Photoshop 6. More advanced sessions for high-end Photoshop users will be added including new sessions on "Advanced Image Adjustments, "Advanced Tips for Advanced Users," and another new advanced session we're still developing. Digital Photography and Photoshop Shootout. A new after-hours extended session where attendees learn from a group of the hottest digital photographers in the business. A Tell Adobe session will give the attendees a chance to tell Adobe what they want to see in the next version of Photoshop. For more information and online registration for Photoshop East, visit: http://www.photoshopworld.com/ or call 1-800-738-8513. Photoshop World is produced by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) located at 1042 Main Street, Suite 201, Dunedin, FL. The Agfa Bookstore was established in 1990. Its goal is to provide the most useful resources for anyone working in design, publishing, web design, color imaging, prepress or print production. The award-winning publications explain complex processes and technologies in concise, objective and highly graphical ways. Since Agfa s first volume, An Introduction to Digital Color Prepress (now in its 6th printing), more than 1.3 million publications and CDs have been distributed worldwide in many languages. Over 1000 schools, colleges and universities use Agfa s publications for classroom use. The online store at http://www.agfabooks.com is in the process of adding more than 200 new titles with an ultimate goal of becoming the industry s most important site for graphic arts tools and resources. For more information, or to order books visit http://www.agfabooks.com or call toll free 1-800-395-7007.