Acknowledgments

Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel has wholeheartedly supported our books during the 16 years that she has been at the helm of Peachpit Press.

Susan Rimerman, editor at Peachpit Press, was responsive to our every question and request.

Lisa Brazieal, eagle-eyed production editor, did an expert job of spearheading the prepress production before sending the files off to RR Donnelley.

Nancy Davis, editor-in-chief; Gary-Paul Prince, promotions manager; Keasley Jones, associate publisher; Glenn Bisignani, marketing manager; and many other terrific, hard-working people at Peachpit contributed their respective talents.

Victor Gavenda, longtime (and multitalented) editor at Peachpit Press, tech edited Chapters 2, 6, 8, 10, 13, 17–19, 21–23, and 25 in Windows.

Wayne Palmer, of palmermultimedia.com, tech edited Chapters 1, 3–5, 7, 9, 11–12, 14–16, and 20 in Windows and provided the first draft of the section on video editing.

Elaine Soares, photo research manager, and Lee Scher, photo research coordinator, of the Image Resource Center at Pearson Education (the parent company of Peachpit Press) quickly procured the stock photos from Shutterstock.com that we requested.

Rebecca Pepper did a thorough, thoughtful, and meticulous job of copy editing.

Steve Rath produced a comprehensive index, carefully customized to our needs.

Scout Festa did excellent work in the final — and final-final — rounds of proofreading.

Adobe Systems, Inc. produces innovative software that is a pleasure to use and write about. For allowing us to test the prerelease version of Photoshop CS6 and for helping us untangle its mysteries by way of the online forum, we thank Zorana Gee, senior product manager of Photoshop and Photoshop Extended; Bryan O’Neil Hughes, senior product manager of Photoshop; Stephen Nielson, product manager of Photoshop and Photoshop Touch; Aditi Bansal, project lead of prerelease programs; and the many other members of the Adobe Photoshop CS6 prerelease team.

Our friends and relatives are there for us in meaningful ways even when we don’t have time to see them (can’t wait for some unhurried visits!).

Our daughters, Alicia and Simona, are blossoming into terrific adults — and are our greatest joy.

— Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas