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Great to learn more about you guys! 
I'm Petra. I live in northern Sweden (close to the arctic circle) with my Canadian husband and our two Siamese cats, Sam and Suzy.
I've been a Mac geek since 1986, when I first played with a Mac, then in february 1987 I could take a loan to afford my first own Macintosh (SE). I've been working in the graphics buisness since 198' (crap I'm old!) and started working as a repro photographer then. Later I added on some other skills, went to school and studied business and graphic design.
I've always photographed. I even dreamt about becoming a photographer, but here in Sweden (at that time) you had to have school grades matching the ones to apply to medical school to become a photographer. So I flunked (and that's why I started in the graphics business). My frist digital camera I picked up 1999 and the summer of 2''5 was the first time I charged to shoot - shooting weddings.
I don't shoot many weddings and I don't work full time as a photographer. I don't work full time as a graphic designer either. I actually do little of everything! I translate books for a Swedish publisher and most of the books I translate are written by Scott Kelby (I'm currently working on the Photoshop CS3 book for digital photographers). I also write articles about Photoshop and photography in the Swedish MacWorld magazine and my next assignment will be key commands in Photoshop CS3 - not my strongest side, but I learn more and more to use key commands.
I started using Lightroom almost as soon as it was out in a first beta, I posted very little on the old Lightroom forum at Adobe and that earned me a thanks when the full version was released.
The stuff I know about Lightroom I've picked up from the NAPP site as well as from Victoria. She and I are members of DWF (Digital Wedding Forum) and I think she's brilliant!
I'm Petra. I live in northern Sweden (close to the arctic circle) with my Canadian husband and our two Siamese cats, Sam and Suzy.
I've been a Mac geek since 1986, when I first played with a Mac, then in february 1987 I could take a loan to afford my first own Macintosh (SE). I've been working in the graphics buisness since 198' (crap I'm old!) and started working as a repro photographer then. Later I added on some other skills, went to school and studied business and graphic design.
I've always photographed. I even dreamt about becoming a photographer, but here in Sweden (at that time) you had to have school grades matching the ones to apply to medical school to become a photographer. So I flunked (and that's why I started in the graphics business). My frist digital camera I picked up 1999 and the summer of 2''5 was the first time I charged to shoot - shooting weddings.
I don't shoot many weddings and I don't work full time as a photographer. I don't work full time as a graphic designer either. I actually do little of everything! I translate books for a Swedish publisher and most of the books I translate are written by Scott Kelby (I'm currently working on the Photoshop CS3 book for digital photographers). I also write articles about Photoshop and photography in the Swedish MacWorld magazine and my next assignment will be key commands in Photoshop CS3 - not my strongest side, but I learn more and more to use key commands.
I started using Lightroom almost as soon as it was out in a first beta, I posted very little on the old Lightroom forum at Adobe and that earned me a thanks when the full version was released.
The stuff I know about Lightroom I've picked up from the NAPP site as well as from Victoria. She and I are members of DWF (Digital Wedding Forum) and I think she's brilliant!
It's great to have you on board.
