Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my editor, Pamela Pfiffner, for prompting me to get started on this project and for her advice and help during the planning stage of this book. For this particular edition, Rebecca Gulick project-managed the book and has, once again, done an excellent job of making sure everything went smoothly. Other members of the publishing team included the Production Editor, Hilal Sala; Copyeditor, Elle Yoko Suzuki; Proofreader, Elizabeth Kuball; Indexer, James Minkin; and additional compositing and corrections by David Van Ness. I would also like to thank Charlene Charles-Will for her work on the cover and interior design, as well as Damon Hampson, who works on the marketing.

Lightroom is really the brainchild of Mark Hamburg, without whom none of this would have happened. Since Lightroom was developed, I have been helped a lot by the various Lightroom engineers and other members of the team. It is all thanks to them that I have managed to gather the background technical knowledge required to write this book. In particular, I would like to thank Thomas Knoll, Zalman Stern and Eric Chan (who worked on the Camera Raw engineering), as well as Lightroom engineers Troy Gaul, Melissa Gaul, Tim Gogolin, Seetha Narayanan, Eric Scouten, Kevin Tieskoetter, Andrew Rahn, Daniel Tull, Phil Clevenger (who designed the Lightroom interface), and Andrei Herasimchuck (who helped guide Lightroom through the early stages). I would also like to thank product manager Tom Hogarty, product evangelists Bryan O’Neil Hughes and Julieanne Kost, as well as previous product evangelist George Jardine for the support and help they have given me. I would especially like to thank Ian Lyons, who tech-edited the book. Thank you, Ian, for clarifying all the many technical points and providing additional insights. Thanks, too, go to Sean McCormack who provided me with valuable feedback and assistance.

A number of photographic shoots have been carried out specifically for this book. I would like to thank the models, Lucy at Bookings, Sofia at MOT, and Yuliya and Kelly from Zone; Camilla Pascucci for makeup; Terry Calvert and James Pearce for hair; Harriet Cotterill for the clothes styling; Stuart Weston and Neil Soni for the use of their studios; and Harry Dutton for assisting me. Also a big thank-you to Jeff Schewe and George Jardine for documenting the shoots with stills and video.

It has been an interesting experience to see a new program emerge from scratch and has been a pleasure to share the development process in the company of a great group of alpha testers and fellow authors, all of whom were willing to share their knowledge about the program with each another. From this group, I would most like to pay tribute to some of the fellow testers: John Beardsworth, Matthew Campagna, Richard Earney, Katrin Eismann, Jeffrey Friedl, Peter Krogh, Karl Lang, Seth Resnick, Andrew Rodney, Jeff Schewe, and last but not least, the mighty John Hollenberg, who at times it seemed, managed to report every bug going in Lightroom! You will notice that this book is dedicated to the memory of Bruce Fraser who sadly passed away in December 2006. Bruce was one of the original core group of Lightroom alpha testers who helped shaped the program. The Lightroom capture and output sharpening are both based on Bruce’s original work on Photoshop sharpening techniques. Bruce was a true genius and is deeply missed by all those who knew and worked with him.

A book like this would be rather boring to read without having some decent photographs to illustrate it with. I supplemented my own photography with that of George Jardine, Sean McCormack, Eric Richmond, and Jeff Schewe, all of whom are credited throughout the book and all of whom I would like to thank. And lastly, I would like to thank my wife, Camilla, and daughter, Angelica, for yet again being so understanding and patient while I was glued to the computer!