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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About Against The Clock About the Author
Against Th e Clock, long recognized as one of the nation’s leaders Erika Kendra holds a BA in History and a BA in English Lit-
in courseware development, has been publishing high-quality erature from the University of Pittsburgh. She began her career
educational materials for the graphic and computer arts indus- in the graphic communications industry as an editor at Graphic
tries since 1990. Th e company has developed a solid and widely Arts Technical Foundation, and has been a full-time professional
respected approach to teaching people how to eff ectively use graphic designer since 1999.
graphics applications, while maintaining a disciplined approach to
real-world problems. Erika is the author or co-author of more than forty books about
Adobe graphic design software. She has also written several books
Having developed the Against Th e Clock and the Essentials for De- about graphic design concepts such as color reproduction and
sign series with Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, ATC drew from prefl ighting, and dozens of articles for industry online and print
years of professional experience and instructor feedback to develop journals. Working with Against Th e Clock for almost twenty years,
Th e Professional Portfolio Series, focusing on the Adobe Creative Erika was a key partner in developing Th e Professional Portfolio
Suite. Th ese books feature step-by-step explanations, detailed Series of software training books.
foundational information, and advice and tips from professionals
that off er practical solutions to technical issues.

Contributing Editors and Artists

A big thank you to the people whose comments and expertise Project 4:
contributed to the success of these books: Images used in this project are copyright Against Th e Clock, Inc.
• Dan Christensen, technical editor Roshambo.jpg photo by Charlie Essers.
• Roger Morrissey, technical editor
• Gary Poyssick, technical editor Project 5:
• Joseph A. Staudenbaur, technical editor Photos used in this composition are by skeeze on Pixabay.com
• Amanda Gambill, copy editor

Images used in the projects throughout this book are in the public Project 6:
domain unless otherwise noted. Individual artists’ credit follow: Images used in this project are copyright Against Th e Clock, Inc.
Images in the supplied banner ad are photos by Jesse Darland and
Project 1:
Sunrise.jpg photo by Stefan Kunze on Unsplash.com. Dark Rider on Unsplash.com
Lightning.jpg photo by David Mourn on Unsplash.com
Tornado.jpg photo by Jean Beaufort on Publicdomainpictures.net Project 8:
culture1.jpg by Pixabay.com
Project 2: culture2.jpg by Liam Penjur on Pexels.com
amg.jpg photo by Mike on Pexels.com culture3.jpg by skeeze on Pixabay.com
inset1.jpg photo by Kyle Murfi n on Unsplash.com culture4.jpg by Miguel Bruna on Unsplash.com
inset2.jpg photo by Jake Weirick on Pexels.com fantasy1.jpg by Anthony Tran on Unsplash.com
inset3.jpg photo by Sergiusz Rydosz on Publicdomainpictures.net fantasy2.jpg by Ambar Simpang on Unsplash.com
tires.jpg photo by Imthaz Ahamed on Pexels.com fantasy3.jpg by Darcy Delia on Pexels.com
fantasy4.jpg by Couleur on Pixabay.com
feature1.jpg by Joy Anne Pura on Pexels.com
Project 3:
Museum images in this project are courtesy of the Metropolitan feature2.jpg by Vinicius Vilela on Pexels.com
Museum of Art’s Open Access Program, which makes images of feature3.jpg by Kathleen Sullivan on Pexels.com
artworks it believes to be in the public domain widely and freely theater1.jpg by Sasint on Pixabay.com
available for unrestricted use. www.metmuseum.org/about-the- theater2.jpg by Cesira Alvarado on Unsplash.com
met/policies-and-documents/image-resources theater3.jpg by A. Zuhri on Unsplash.com

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