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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 4:
contributed to the success of these books: culture1.jpg by Pixabay.com
• Roger Morrissey, technical editor culture2.jpg by Liam Penjur on Pexels.com
• Gary Poyssick, technical editor culture3.jpg by skeeze on Pixabay.com
culture4.jpg by Miguel Bruna on Unsplash.com
• Rob McAllister, copy editor
fantasy1.jpg by Anthony Tran on Unsplash.com
Images used in the projects throughout this book are in the public fantasy2.jpg by Ambar Simpang on Unsplash.com
domain unless otherwise noted. Individual artists’ credit follow: fantasy3.jpg by Darcy Delia on Pexels.com
fantasy4.jpg by Couleur on Pixabay.com
Project 1: feature1.jpg by Joy Anne Pura on Pexels.com
Images used in this project are copyright Against The Clock, Inc. feature2.jpg by Vinicius Vilela on Pexels.com
Project 2: feature3.jpg by Kathleen Sullivan on Pexels.com
Images in this project are from PublicDomainPictures.net. theater1.jpg by Sasint on Pixabay.com
theater2.jpg by Cesira Alvarado on Unsplash.com
Project 3: theater3.jpg by A. Zuhri on Unsplash.com
Images used in this project are copyright Against The Clock, Inc.
Roshambo.jpg photo by Charlie Essers. Project 5:
Images copyright Erika Kendra.

Project 6:
Background image by Marcus dePaula on Unsplash.com.

Project 7:
adults.jpg by Alex Jones on Unsplash.com.
chalk.jpg photo by Tina Floersch on Unsplash.com.
pencils background image by Stefan Schweihofer on Pixabay.com.
Project 8:
All images used in this project are courtesy of the Getty’s Open
Content Program: getty.edu/about/whatwedo/opencontentfaq.html

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