Photoshop CS4 For Dummies
by Peter Bauer
Photoshop CS4 For Dummies
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About the Author
Peter Bauer is best known as the Help Desk Director for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), but he has also authored or coauthored a dozen books on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, computer graphics, and photography. Pete is also the host of video-training titles at Lynda.com, a contributing writer for Photoshop User and Layers magazines, and an award-winning fine-art photographer. An Adobe Certified Expert, he also appears regularly as a member of the Photoshop World Instructor Dream Team. As NAPP Help Desk Director, Pete personally answers thousands of e-mail questions annually about Photoshop and computer graphics. He has contributed to and assisted on such projects as feature film special effects, major book and magazine publications, award-winning Web sites, and fine art exhibitions. He has taught computer graphics at the university level, serves as a computer graphics efficiency consultant for a select corporate clientele, and shoots exclusive photographic portraiture. Pete and his wife, Professor Mary Ellen OConnell, of the University of Notre Dame Law School, live in South Bend, Indiana. Despite being considered a world-class technogeek, Pete still plays organized ice hockey.
Dedication
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Authors Acknowledgments
First, Id like to thank Bob Woerner and Linda Morris of Wiley, as well as Ron Rockwell and the rest of the superb crew at Wiley that put the book itself together. Id also like to acknowledge Scott and Kalebra Kelby, Jean Kendra, Larry Becker, Jeff Kelby, and Dave Moser of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), who make my professional life what it is today. With their support, Im the Help Desk Director for NAPP, and get to share my Photoshop knowledge with tens of thousands of NAPP members and with you. I also thank my Help Desk colleagues Jeanne Rubbo and Rob Sylvan for their support during the development of this book.
Another great group from whom I continue to receive support are my colleagues on the Photoshop World Instructor Dream Team. If you havent been to Photoshop World, try to make it soon. Rather than Photoshop conference think Photoshop festival. Where else can you see suits and slackers, side by side, savoring every single syllable? Its more than just training and learning, its a truly intellectually invigorating environment. (I most especially value the incredibly-stimulating conversations with renowned photographers Vincent Versace and John Paul Caponigro hail the Sze Society!) I would also like to single out Robb Kerr, one of the original Photoshop World instructors, who continues to inspire me both spiritually and intellectually.
And, of course, I thank my wife, the wonderful Professor Mary Ellen OConnell of the Notre Dame Law School, for her unwavering support during yet another book project, all the while finishing her own extremely important The Power and Purpose of International Law (Oxford University Press).
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