Acknowledgments

Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, publisher of Peachpit Press, has steered the company (for nearly two decades!) through a changing and unpredictable publishing landscape with steady, yet flexible, hands.

Susan Rimerman, editor at Peachpit Press, helped us find the resources we needed to get this big project done.

Victor Gavenda, editor at Peachpit Press, keeps us apprised of developments in the software and publishing industries, and gives us valuable advice.

David Van Ness, production editor, spearheaded the final prepress production of this book before sending the files off to RR Donnelley.

Nancy Davis, editor-in-chief; Sara Todd, marketing manager; Alison Serafini, contracts manager; and many other terrific, hard-working people at Peachpit contributed their respective talents.

Elaine Soares, photo research manager, and Lee Scher, photo research coordinator, of the Image Resource Center at Pearson Education (the parent company of Peachpit Press), procured the stock photos from Shutterstock.com that we requested.

Adobe Systems, Inc. produces innovative software that is a pleasure to use and write about. For permitting us to access prerelease versions of Photoshop CC for this 2014 edition, and for helping us untangle its mysteries and complexities by way of the online forum, we thank the entire Photoshop prerelease team, especially Zorana Gee, senior product manager; Stephen Nielson, senior product manager; Vishal Rana, project lead, prerelease programs; and Pallab Jyotee Hazarika, prerelease program associate. Also thanks to Tom Hogarty, group product manager for Digital Imaging, and Steve Guilhamet, quality engineer.

In addition to writing and testing the instructional material in this book, we designed, illustrated, and composed (packaged) it in Adobe InDesign. Our team of helpers for this edition included the following people:

Rob Knight, ace photographer and Photoshop expert, keystroked some of the tasks in this book.

Patricia Pane, proofreader, combed through our final pages for errors.

Steve Rath produced a comprehensive index, tailored to our needs.

Recently, we moved our household and offices from the coast of New England to the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. We are grateful to our friends and family who have encouraged and supported us in this journey.

—Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas