As the father of a 10 year old girl who is rapidly gaining interest in photography and Photoshop, I love hearing about your goal of getting more women involved in the industry. My daughter already has Adobe CS3 installed on her iBook and creates most of her drawings in Illustrator instead of on actual paper. Keep up the fight!!!

I think that they do a good job at catering to their main demographic which, as it was stated, contains more men than women. But that is changing as KarenB said where she has noticed more women participants. But I know a lot of women who love football and I saw everyone laughing equally hard during the keynote at the conference… seeing as how the theme of the show is only really present in the keynote and the layout of the book cover. Very little else has anything to do with the theme at all.

I am a bit baffled by your comment about female artwork having a feminine touch. I’ve never been able to make a connection between content or style with gender of the artist. I know that every artist has their own style. But to be able to look at a piece of art and say whether the artist was a male or female is not possible without knowing other data points.

In the end I think that people should look at others without thinking of gender, race, disability, etc but rather look at them based on the skill that they possess in the industry at which they work.

My photoshop, digital photo & photo 101 classes are always filled with way more female students than guys.

I would like to remind everyone though that this article is not about PSW, or Scott Kelby. It is about motivating women to become stronger in the field of Photoshop in general.

Thank you.