The Missing Credits

About the Author

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Barbara Brundage is the author of Photoshop Elements: The Missing Manual, an Adobe Community Expert, and a member of Adobe’s prerelease groups for Elements 3–12. She’s been teaching people how to use Photoshop Elements since it came out in 2001. Barbara first started using Elements to create graphics for use in her day job as a harpist, music publisher, and arranger. Along the way, she joined the large group of people finding a renewed interest in photography thanks to digital cameras. If she can learn to use Elements, you can, too! You can reach her at and read her blog at www.barbarabrundage.com (sometimes it’s even about Photoshop Elements).

About the Creative Team

Dawn Mann (editor) is associate editor for the Missing Manual series. When not working, she plays soccer, beads, and causes trouble. Email: .

Kara Ebrahim (production editor) lives, works, and plays in Cambridge, MA. She loves graphic design and all things outdoors. Email: .

Sara Froehlich (tech reviewer) has been in love with computer graphics and digital photography since she discovered them in 1995, and has been teaching online classes in Photoshop Elements since its first release. She’s also the author of Microsoft Expression Design Step by Step. Sara enjoys traveling with her husband, Tom, and their papillon, Jasmine, and is especially fond of Florida, where she can get away from Minnesota winters! Website: www.northlite.net. Email: .

Francine Schwieder (tech reviewer) has used Macs and Photoshop since 1994; has run Mac User Group workshops focused on using Mac OS X and graphics programs, including Photoshop and Photoshop Elements; and has been known to do beta testing of applications and even operating systems. She also travels, and enjoys remodeling her home and landscaping her yard. She brings all her varied interests together on her website http://pinkmutant.com.

Ron Strauss (indexer) specializes in the indexing of information technology publications of all kinds. Ron is also an accomplished classical violist and lives in northern California with his wife and fellow indexer, Annie, and his miniature pinscher, Kanga. Email: .

Nan Reinhardt (proofreader) lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys summer weekends at the lake, boating, swimming, and reading voraciously. Nan is not only a freelance copyeditor and proofreader, but she’s also a published romance novelist. Check out her work at www.nanreinhardt.com. Email: .

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Sara Froelich and Francine Schwieder for reading this book and giving me the benefit of their advice and corrections. I’m also grateful for the help I received from everyone at Adobe, especially Bob Gager, Deepak Sharad Sawant, Mohit Gupta, Garima Panwar, Sanchit Lohia, Rahul Bansai, Akshaya Saxena, Garima Panwar, Neeraj Chaudhary, and Sourabh Gupta. And thanks to John Obradovich for his help reviewing the index.

Special thanks also to graphic artist Jodi Frye () for allowing me to reproduce one of her Elements drawings to show what can be done by those with more artistic ability than I have. My gratitude also to Florida’s botanical gardens, especially McKee Botanical Garden (www.mckeegarden.org), Historic Bok Sanctuary (www.boktower.org), Heathcote Botanical Gardens (www.heathcotebotanicalgardens.org), and Harry P. Leu Gardens (www.leugardens.org) for creating oases of peace and beauty in our hectic world. Finally, I’d like to thank everyone in the gang over at the Adobe Photoshop Elements support forum for all their help and friendship.

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