About the Authors

Carla Rose started her photography career at the age of 8 with a Brownie Hawkeye. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she has been a TV news photographer and film editor, as well as an advertising copywriter and graphic artist, before discovering the Macintosh. She has written all or part of about thirty computer books, including Maclopedia , Adobe InDesign for the Mac , Sams Teach Yourself Digital Photography in 14 Days , Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop 4 in 14 Days , The Whole Mac , Managing the Windows NT Server , PageMaker 6.5 Complete , Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop 4 in 24 Hours , Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop 5 in 24 Hours , Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop 5.5 in 24 Hours , Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours , Mac Online , The First Book of Macintosh , The First Book of PageMaker 4 for Macintosh , It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Mac , Turbocharge Your Mac , and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Mac . She is a contributing editor to Photoshop User magazine and has also written for publications ranging from the Atlantic Fisherman to Adobe Magazine to The New Yorker . She lives near Boston, with her husband, audio guru Jay Rose, and three large, friendly cats. She welcomes e-mail addressed to [e-mail].

Kate Binder is a graphics expert who works from her home in New Hampshire. She has written articles on design tools and techniques, publishing workflows, and photography for magazines including Publish, PEI , and Desktop Publishers Journal . Kate is also the author of several books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mac OS X , Easy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger , and Easy Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 , and she is the coauthor of several more books, including Microsoft Office: Mac v.X Inside Out, SVG for Designers , and Get Creative: The Digital Photo Idea Book . To those interested in a successful career as a designer, photographer, or computer book writer, Kate recommends acquiring several retired racing greyhounds (find out more about www.adopt-a-greyhound.orgshe finds her four greyhounds extraordinarily inspirational. Kate can be reached via her website at www.prospecthillpub.com.