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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About Against The Clock About the Author

Against The 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 educational mate- erature from the University of Pittsburgh. She began her career
rials for the graphic and computer arts industries since 1990. The in the graphic communications industry as an editor at Graphic
company has developed a solid and widely respected approach to Arts Technical Foundation, and has been a full-time professional
teaching people how to effectively use graphics applications while graphic designer since 1999.
maintaining a disciplined approach to real-world problems.
Erika is the author or co-author of more than forty books about
Having developed the Against The Clock and the Essentials for De- Adobe graphic design software. She has also written several books
sign series with Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, ATC drew from about graphic design concepts such as color reproduction and
years of professional experience and instructor feedback to develop preflighting and dozens of articles for graphics and print industry
The Professional Portfolio Series, focusing on the Adobe Creative journals. Working with Against The Clock for almost twenty years,
Suite. These books feature step-by-step explanations, detailed Erika was a key partner in developing The Professional Portfolio
foundational information, and advice and tips from professionals Series of software training books.
that offer practical solutions to technical issues.

Contributing Editors and Artists

A big thank you to the people whose comments and expertise Project 7:
contributed to the success of these books: coffee.tif photo by Polymanu on Pixabay.com
• Tony Cowdrey, technical editor creampuffs.tif photo by la-fontaine on Pixabay.com
fruit.tif photo by Luke Michael on Unsplash.com
• Roger Morrissey, technical editor
peppers.tif photo by DXT_91 on Pexels.com
• Gary Poyssick, technical editor
spices.tif photo by Akhil Chandran on Unsplash.com
• Grace Veach, copy editor
Project 8:
Images used in the projects throughout this book are in the public guitar.jpg photo by Suvan Chowdhury on Pexels.com
domain unless otherwise noted. Individual artists’ credit follow:
Project 9:
Project 4: U.S. Navy Blue Angels photos copyright Erika Kendra
Sunrise.jpg photo by Stefan Kunze on Unsplash.com.
Lightning.jpg photo by David Mourn on Unsplash.com Moon-landing photo is a NASA photo in the public domain.
Tornado.jpg photo by Jean Beaufort on Publicdomainpictures.net Scanning by NASA Johnson and post-processing by Kipp Teague
Aircraft images used in the supplied PDF ad were taken by govern-
Project 5: ment employees and as such are in the public domain:
amg.jpg photo by Mike on Pexels.com B-2: U.S. Navy photo/Jordon R. Beesley
inset1.jpg photo by Kyle Murfin on Unsplash.com F-117: Bobbi Zapka
inset2.jpg photo by Jake Weirick on Pexels.com F-22: U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers
inset3.jpg photo by Sergiusz Rydosz on Publicdomainpictures.net SR-71: U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael Haggerty
tires.jpg photo by Imthaz Ahamed on Pexels.com
Project 10:
Project 6: Images used in this project are copyright Against The Clock, Inc.
Museum images in this project are courtesy of the Getty’s Open
Content Program: getty.edu/about/whatwedo/opencontentfaq.html
HDR image exposures by Charlie Essers.

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