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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 educational mate- erature from the University of Pittsburgh. She began her career
rials for the graphic and computer arts industries since 1990. Th e 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 eff ectively 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 Th e 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 prefl ighting and dozens of articles for graphics and print industry
Th e Professional Portfolio Series, focusing on the Adobe Creative journals. Working with Against Th e Clock for almost twenty years,
Suite. Th ese books feature step-by-step explanations, detailed Erika was a key partner in developing Th e Professional Portfolio
foundational information, and advice and tips from professionals Series of software training books.
that off er 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: coff ee.tif photo by Polymanu on Pixabay.com
• Dan Christensen, technical editor creampuff s.tif photo by la-fontaine on Pixabay.com
fruit.tif photo by Luke Michael on Unsplash.com
• Tony Cowdrey, technical editor
peppers.tif photo by DXT_91 on Pexels.com
• Roger Morrissey, technical editor
spices.tif photo by Akhil Chandran on Unsplash.com
• Gary Poyssick, technical editor
• Joseph A. Staudenbaur, technical editor Project 8:
guitar.jpg photo by Suvan Chowdhury on Pexels.com
• Matthew Woodring, technical editor
• Amanda Gambill, copy editor Project 9:
• Jaclyn Garver, copy editor U.S. Navy Blue Angels photos copyright Erika Kendra

Images used in the projects throughout this book are in the public Moon-landing photo is a NASA photo in the public domain.
domain unless otherwise noted. Individual artists’ credit follow: Scanning by NASA Johnson and post-processing by Kipp Teague
Aircraft images used in the supplied PDF ad were taken by govern-
Project 4: ment employees and as such are in the public domain:
Sunrise.jpg photo by Stefan Kunze on Unsplash.com. B-2: U.S. Navy photo/Jordon R. Beesley
Lightning.jpg photo by David Mourn on Unsplash.com F-117: Bobbi Zapka
Tornado.jpg photo by Jean Beaufort on Publicdomainpictures.net F-22: U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers
SR-71: U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael Haggerty
Project 5:
amg.jpg photo by Mike on Pexels.com Project 10:
inset1.jpg photo by Kyle Murfi n on Unsplash.com Images used in this project are copyright Against Th e Clock, Inc.
inset2.jpg photo by Jake Weirick on Pexels.com
inset3.jpg photo by Sergiusz Rydosz on Publicdomainpictures.net
tires.jpg photo by Imthaz Ahamed on Pexels.com
Project 6:
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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