About the Author Scott is Editor, Publisher, and co-founder of Photoshop User magazine, Editor-in-Chief of Layers magazine (the how-to magazine for everything Adobe), and is the host of the top- rated weekly videocast Photoshop User TV and the co-host of D-Town TV, the weekly videocast for DSLR shooters. He is President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), the trade association for Adobe® Photo- shop® users, and he's President of the software training, education, and publishing firm, Kelby Media Group, Inc. Scott is a photographer, designer, and award-winning author of more than 50 books, including The Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers, Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, The Photoshop Channels Book, Photoshop Classic Effects, The iPhone Book, The iPod Book, and The Digital Photography Book, volumes 1, 2 & 3. For six years straight, Scott has been honored with the distinc- tion of being the world's #1 best-selling author of all computer and technology books, across all categories. His books have been translated into dozens of different languages, including Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Taiwanese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, and Portuguese, among others, and he is a recipient of the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award. Scott is Training Director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, and Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. He's featured in a series of Adobe Photoshop training DVDs and has been training Adobe Photoshop users since 1993. For more information on Scott, visit his daily blog at www .scottkelby.com Scott Kelby vii