This book is dedicated to my husband, Jay Nelson, for making
everyday life incredibly fun and for learning to appreciate heavy metal
music, namely Ozzy Osbourne. 
I’d like to express galactic thanks to iStockphoto.com for providing some of the imagery in this book: An image really is worth a thousand words (if you ever need high-quality, affordable graphics, visit www.lesa.in/istockdeal). (Full disclosure: I was their chief evangelist for over six years.) A big hug and thanks to David Pogue who so graciously wrote the foreword for this book. To Jeff and Scott Kelby for believing in me and nurturing my career in immeasurable ways. To Derrick Story for his wisdom before I got started on this project, and a great big jug of Umbrian vino rosso to Dawn Mann for editing this book and keeping me on track. Her input makes me a better writer and I’m lucky to have her on our team. To my brilliant and long-time tech editor, Shangara Singh, whose expertise has helped create the best Photoshop book yet and whose humorous comments always made me giggle.
Special thanks to Marcus Conge (digitalmanipulation.com) and Jay Nelson for writing the new 3D chapter, to Rod Harlan for consulting on video editing, to Richard Harrington (photoshopforvideo.com) for helping with actions, to Taz Tally (taztallyphotography.com) for helping with the print chapter, as well as Bert Monroy (bertmonroy.com) and Veronica Hanley for guidance on all things vector-related. To Deborah Fox (deborahfoxart.com) for the beautiful art in the painting chapter, to Tanya and Richard Horie for their expert advice on the painting chapter and brush customization options (as well as creating my logo), to Karen Nace Willmore (karennace.com) for her HDR and wide-angle photography, and to Jeff Gamet (macobserver.com) for keeping me sane and helping with the first edition of this book.
To my esteemed colleagues—and good friends—Jack Davis, Ben Willmore, Eddie Tapp, Judy Host, Peter Cohen, Gary-Paul Prince, Larry Becker, Kevin Ames, Terry White, Dave Moser, and Andy Ihnatko, who all expressed their pride and confidence in me. I’d also like to thank our creativeLIVE.com family for promoting this book and for being so fun to play with, as well as LensProToGo.com for supplying me with incredible Canon gear to shoot with (if you need to rent camera gear, they’re the best!).
Last but not least, buckets of appreciation to my friends who gave their support—or a cocktail!—when I needed it most: Carol Morphew, Kathryn Kroll, Leslie Fishlock, Lorene Romero, and most importantly, Fran Snider, the best mama a girl could have (wish Daddy could’ve held this book!). To our beautiful kitties, Samantha and Baby Sherlock, who forced me to get out of my pretty purple Aeron chair and play The Laser Pointer Game with them at exactly 5:15 pm each day.
May the creative force be with you all!
—Lesa Snider
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