Photoshop 7 Magic

Sherry London is an artist, writer, and teacher-which is exactly what a going-into-college aptitude test predicted. (It also correctly predicted that she would make a rotten housekeeper!) She was a contributing editor for Computer Artist magazine (before that publication's untimely death) and has written for Electronic Publishing, Pre, MacWeek, MacUser, Digital Vision, and the combined MacWorld/MacUser magazine. She currently writes for Photoshop User and Mac Design magazines. She has taught Photoshop, prepress, and QuarkXPress at Moore College of Art and Design and at Gloucester County College. She has spoken at a number of conferences, including the Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference and the Professional Photographers of America convention. She has written a number of books on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter. She teaches online Photoshop courses for Education to Go (http://www.ed2go.com).

Rhoda Grossman With a background in traditional fine art, illustration, and cartooning, Rhoda began to transfer those skills to the Macintosh in 1989. She demonstrated digital caricature at numerous computer graphics trade shows in the early '90s and contributed step-by-step artwork to books on Photoshop and Painter. She wrote Photoshop Effects Magic (1997, Hayden Books) and more recently co-authored (with Sherry London) Photoshop 6 Effects Magic and Painter f/x and Design. This is the fourth collaboration for Rhoda and Sherry. Rhoda teaches digital art and graphic design at the Center for Electronic Art in San Francisco and at the Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. She still does on-the-spot caricature at events. Rhoda is a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, the San Francisco Society of Illustrators, and the National Caricaturists Network. In recent years, she played a role in creating fair tax regulations for artists in California. Her portfolios and a cartoon autobiography can be seen at http://www.digitalpainting.com.

Robert Barnes is an award-winning visual artist who has made the transition from professional photography to digital fine art. A graduate of Eckerd College with a B.A. in art and photography, Mr. Barnes became chief photographer/ cinematographer for Turner Broadcasting in 1972. He earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary in 1976. In 1979, he joined the founding team at Cable News Network (CNN), where he championed the effort to build the world's first computerized television newsroom. In 1986, he moved to Apple Computer and spent the next 10 years working in advanced technology. In 1995, he became product manager for QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, a revolutionary software product that takes normal 35 mm photographs and stitches them together to create a 360 degree panoramic image. Mr. Barnes moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 1997, and after nearly three decades of detours, Barnes has returned to his first true calling... working as a full-time artist. Mr. Barnes has been a guest lecturer on digital art and video production at the University of Georgia, the University of Colorado at Denver, Eckerd College, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. His art can be seen on his web site at http://www.barnesgallery.com.

Michel Bohbot is an award-winning illustrator who combines digital with traditional rendering skills. Michel is a recent president of the San Francisco Society of Illustrators. He has taught courses in illustration and business practices at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. He also contributed to the Photoshop 6 Effects Magic book. Real-world examples were also the inspiration for this year's tutorial. He and his brother have completed an illustrated fantasy novel and are looking for a publisher (hint, hint). See more of Michel's work at http://www.mbohbot.com.

Helen Golden, a pioneer in the digital art realm, exhibits in solo, curated, and invited exhibitions and is often cited in newspapers, magazines, books, television, and on the Internet. Her artwork is in private and corporate collections and has been accessed by the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. It has been shown and sold in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including those at the Triton Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Fuller Museum of Art, Stanford University, the Ansel Adams Museum, the Silicon Valley Art Museum, and venues in New York City, Europe, Japan, and Canada. In July 1997, she was a co-organizer of "Digital Atelier: A Printmaking Studio for the 21st Century" at the National Museum of American Art, where she was an artist-in-residence for 21 days along with the artists of "Unique Editions," the digital collective of which she is a co-founder. The event was enabled and supported by 31 technology corporations. She is a Laureate of the 1998 Computerworld Smithsonian Information Technology Innovation Distinction and, in 1998, she was the recipient of the Andre Schellenberg Award in Fine Art. She was the first curator/director of "Art At the Pond," a San Francisco gallery that pioneered in featuring digital art. She serves to educate the public, collectors, and galleries about the new digital tools. As a research consultant for many corporations, she has had opportunities to try emerging technologies and to provide feedback from an artist's perspective.

Dot Krause is a painter, collage artist, and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and museums and is featured in more than three dozen current periodicals and books. She is professor emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art, where she founded the Computer Arts Center, and a member of Unique Editions and Digital Atelier, which are digital artists collaboratives, with Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and symposia and a consultant for manufacturers and distributors of products that may be used by fine artists. In July 1997, Krause organized "Digital Atelier: A Printmaking Studio for the 21st Century" at the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and was an artist-in-residence there for 21 days. For that work, she received a Smithsonian Technology in the Arts Award. That same year, she worked with a group of curators to help them envision the potential of digital printmaking in "Media for a New Millennium," a work-tank/think-shop organized by the Vinalhaven Graphic Arts Foundation. In June 2001, with Digital Atelier, Krause demonstrated digital printmaking techniques at the opening of the "Brooklyn Museum of Art 27th Print National, Digital: Printmaking Now."

Kelly Loomisis an award-winning graphic designer and artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. Her traditional work includes stained glass, for which she used to do business as Paine in the Glass. Her work has been published in numerous books and exhibited in art shows in and around Northern California. You can see more of her work on her website at http://www.7rings.com.

Cher Threinen-Pendarvis is a designer, fine artist, author, and educator based in San Diego, California. She has worked with both traditional and electronic tools for nearly 30 years. Her digital fine art and design has been exhibited as large format hand-worked prints worldwide and published in many publications, including The Photoshop WOW! Book, The Official Photoshop Handbook, Photoshop 6 Magic, EFX Art and Design, Design Graphics, Digital Fine Art magazine, Contact magazine, MacWeek, MacUser Macworld, Publish, Step-by-Step Publications, and Computer Artist magazine. Cher holds a BA with Highest Honors and Distinction in Art specializing in painting and printmaking. She is Principal of the consulting firm Cher Threinen Design, is an enthusiastic teacher, and is author of The Painter 7 WOW! Book, the fifth edition of this highly praised volume of techniques, and inspiration. You can see her work at http://www. pendarvis-studios.com. Photo by Michael Antorietto.

Al Ward, a certified Photoshop addict and webmaster of Action FX Photoshop Resources (http://www.actionfx. com), hails from Missoula, Montana. A former submariner in the U.S. Navy, Al now spends his time creating add-on software for Photoshop and writing about graphics-related topics. Al is the co-author (with Colin Smith) of Photoshop Most Wanted, a manual of popular Photoshop special effects, and Foundation Photoshop 6.0, both from Friends of Ed Publishing. He has been a contributor to Photoshop User magazine, a contributing writer for Inside Photoshop 6 from New Riders Publishing, and a writer for several Photoshop-related web sites, including Planet Photoshop (http://www.planetphotoshop.com). Al was also a panelist at the Photoshop World 2001 Los Angeles Conference, and he contributes to the official NAPP web site as the actions area coordinator (http://www.photoshopuser.com). Al lists Scott Kelby as his hero, coffee as his favorite food group, and sleep as the one pastime he'd like to take up some day. In his off time, he enjoys his church, his family, fishing the great northwestern United States, and scouring the web for Photoshop-related topics. Phil Williams After graduating from a coordinated program between the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Mr. Williams began his professional career as a commissioned portrait painter. After several years of portrait painting, he became very involved with sound as a medium of art and found that freelancing as a sound engineer in the film industry provided the free time, the materials, and the sound palette to pursue his interest in sound as an art form. Part of working in the film industry involves traveling to ordinary and extraordinary places throughout the country and the world. It was during those travels that he collected the sound effects that became his sound palette. Several times a year during this period, he produced sound shows in various avante garde locations and galleries in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the mid 1980s, while attempting to computerize his sound effects library built up over 12 years in the business, he got totally involved with computer programming. Soon thereafter, he sold his sound business and equipment, bought some computers, and became a freelance computer programmer. In the early '90s, when desktop computers began to show promise as tools for graphic design and artwork, he went full circle back to the visual arts, becoming a digital illustrator and web site designer. Today he spends most of his time digitally painting artwork and portraits.

David Xenakis is Vice President for Production for XRX, Inc. David's company produces Knitter's Magazine, XRX Books, and puts on Stitches Fair and Consumer shows. The publications of XRX are known in their industry as unusually high-quality print presentations. This is partly due to the fact that XRX has been involved in digital printing for a long time: Knitter's Magazine, for example, was the first nationally distributed publication to be done entirely in QuarkXPress. David is the author of Photoshop 6 In Depth and has co-authored previous editions of that book with Sherry London. David has also served as a technical editor for several books on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, and has contributed material for several books on these topics. Sandy Young is an award-winning digital and mixed-media artist working out of Studio Y, the digital studio she founded in 1991. Sandy creates digital images for clients such as The 2002 Cotton Bowl, Sony Music, Pepsi Co., Minolta, and Simon & Schuster. Accomplished in both the fine art and commercial arenas, Sandy's accolades include awards by PRINT, ASCI, Fractal Design, California Works, and the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. You can see Sandy's work at http://www.studio-y.com. These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process of Photoshop 7 Magic. As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that Photoshop 7 Magic fit our readers' need for the highest-quality technical information. Jon McFarland manages the design department for a national developer/owner/manager of retail, office, and residential properties. His experience in the CAD industry has branched into a career in computer graphics and animation. Jon also teaches at the Virginia Marti College of Art and Design and authors books on computer animation. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with his sons Zachary and Jacob. Brian Sierkowski lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he works as a web designer and programmer for Indiana University's School of Education. He does freelance work as a web site developer, is an avid photographer, and teaches a class on Photoshop for amateur photographers. He recently returned to college to complete a degree in psychology. Any free time he has left after everything just mentioned is spent with his dog Benny.