Mike's background is in Photography and Digital Media. He attended Art School where he attained a Diploma in Photography. Mike is a Certified Photoshop Instructor, an Adobe Authorized Training Partner as well as an Adobe Influencer. He also holds a Diploma in Multimedia Authoring Mike lectures Photography and Digital Media at various educational institutions. The subjects that he lectures are: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects and Blender. The Photography lectures that he presents, range from Photographic theory and getting to know your camera, Expressive Photography and Studio lighting techniques. Mike has presented guest lectures at Trade Shows on behalf of Apple and Adobe. Below are some testimonials from some of his YouTube subscribers: "Thank you so much. Time saver indeed", “Wonderful. It took ages to find this video, but it was worth it as it had exactly what I needed. Thanks”, “The tip is sublime Saves hours of work”, “Autoflow text. Perfect! I had no idea. I ended up with 256 pages. Good grief, it would have taken forever to do manually. Thanks much!”,  “Thank you. Nice calm and measured voice/speech pattern you got there”, “Thanks. You saved my hours”,  “Very interesting and well presented, cheers”, “Thanks for the frustration-neutralizing tip”