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David Blatner

David Blatner is an internationally respected author or coauthor of 15 books, including Adobe InDesign CS/C2 Breakthroughs, Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, and Real World Adobe Photoshop CS2. His books have sold more than half a million copies worldwide and consistently win him awards and praise from readers.

Nine authors contributed to the update of this edition. They include: Kelly Anton, Stephen Beals, Pariah Burke, Shellie Hall, Ted LoCascio, Claudia McCue, Patti Schulze, Glen Turpin, and Chuck Weger.

David Blatner

David Blatner is the author of 15 books on topics such as InDesign, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress—including Real World InDesign, InDesign Breakthroughs, Real World Photoshop, and the groundbreaking The QuarkXPress Book. He is the co-host of InDesignSecrets.com, as well as the editorial director of InDesign Magazine and The InDesign Conference. Over a half a million copies of his books are in print in 12 languages, winning him awards and praise from readers. He has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. You can find him at www.63p.com.

Bruce Fraser

Bruce Fraser, Peachpit's dear friend and colleague, passed away December 16, 2006. The principal author of the best-selling Real World series of books about Adobe Photoshop and the definitive works Real World Color Management, Real World Camera Raw, and his recently published Real World Image Sharpening, Bruce enlightened end users and experts worldwide on the intricacies of color publishing and imaging though his many lectures, product review and magazine columns. He was the expert’s expert and collaborated with virtually every manufacturer and developer of color imaging products from the earliest days (including Adobe Systems, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., Epson America, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft Corporation, and X-Rite Inc.).

For more than 20 years Bruce wielded enormous influence in the evolution of digital color management, and became an industry legend by teaching color and effective means for its use in digital workflow. Since the early years, he played an important consulting role in the development of Adobe Photoshop, including during that programs’ earliest incarnation when it was known as BarneyScan XP. He contributed to the introduction of the very first spectrophotometer targeting the desktop world – the COLORTRON – a product that pointed the way to current instruments deemed essential to successful color reproduction from the desktop.

On December 15, the day before his passing, Bruce received the first National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2005, Bruce was also recognized at Photoshop World when he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Bruce Fraser

David Blatner is an internationally known expert on Photoshop and QuarkXPress and is the author of numerous other books, including Real World QuarkXPress and Real World Adobe InDesign. David lectures on desktop publishing and multimedia at conferences and workshops around the world. Co-author, Bruce Fraser, is an internationally known authority on digital imaging and color reproduction. In addition to speaking and consulting on these topics, he is the author of Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop; the co-author of Real World Color Management, the definitive guide to color management systems; and a contributing editor for Macworld magazine and creativepro.com.