BIOGRAPHY
Suzette Allen is quickly gaining recognition as a new speaker on the circuit, teaching others how to master the tools of Photoshop! Suzette has helped many photographers survive the Digital Dive with her beginning and intermediate level Photoshop classes, “Digital Discoveries”.
Suzette has been a professional portrait photographer for 19 years, but has just recently appeared in the limelight. Suzette was awarded the Fuji Masterpiece Award and Commercial Photographer of the Year in California for her digital composite “Voice-Over” in 2002, and has received many awards for her unique composites and digital images. She received her Certified Professional Photographer Credential in 1996, and received the Photographic Craftsman Degree from PPA in 2003.
She has taught 6 workshops for CPW and been a speaker at the Western States Convention for 3 years.
Suzette is a member of the Fuji StudioMaster Pro Elite team, a specially trained team of educators presenting the "OneMessage" for success in digital photography. She is recognized abroad for her photographic and photoshop expertise and writes articles for The Society for Wedding and Portrait Photographers in England (SWPP).
Suzette is currently the “photoshop expert” on ShootSmarter.com, a resource site dedicated to helping photographers “Shoot Smarter’! See her articles at http://www.shootsmarter.com/suzette.html
She is best known for her digital composites and images with text additions, as well as her graphic design skills in the photographic community. See her images and portrait specialty, “Portraits with a Purpose”, at www.SuzetteAllen.com.
DEGREES
- PPA Certified Professional
Photographer
- PPA Photographic
Craftsman Degree
- Fellow of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers
- PPC Fellowship Degree
- PPC Service Degree
- Bachelor of Science in Business Management University of Phoenix
AWARDS
- 2002 Fuji Masterpiece Award
- Western
States Region, Digital Category
- 2002 Commercial Photographer of the Year--
- Professional
Photographers of California (PPC)
- 2002 Fine Art Photographer of the Year
- Professional
Photographers of Sacramento Valley (PPSV)
- 2002 Commercial Photographer of the Year
- Professional
Photographers of Sacramento Valley (PPSV)
- 2002
Portrait Photographer of the Year (2nd place)
- Professional
Photographers of Sacramento Valley (PPSV)
- Image
2000 Print Competion (2nd place)
- Professional
Photographers of Sacramento Valley (PPSV)
- Image
2000 Print Competion (3rd place)
- Professional
Photographers of Sacramento Valley (PPSV)