Acknowledgements

Always for Kassy-Lee, but with special thanks to Adrian and Ellena for putting up with a ‘would-be author’ for a father for the last few months. Yes it is over…until next time at least!

Thanks also to the enthusiastic and very supportive staff at Focal Press whose belief in quality book production has given life to my humble ideas – yet again! Special thanks to Ben Denne and Melissa Read for as everyone knows, but doesn’t acknowledge nearly enough, ‘good book production is definitely a team effort’.

My appreciation goes to Jane Brady for her support and kind introduction, and cheers also to Martin Evening, the ‘Guru of GUI’, and Don Day and Richard Coencas for their technical and ‘pixel-based’ guidance.

And thanks once more to Adobe for bringing image enhancement and editing to us all through their innovative and industry-leading products, and the other hardware and software manufacturers whose help is an essential part of writing any book of this nature. In particular I wish to thank technical and marketing staff at Adobe, Microsoft, Sony, Canon, Nikon and Epson.

And finally my thanks to all the readers who continue to inspire and encourage me with their generous praise and great images. Keep e-mailing me to let me know how your imaging is going.

Philip Andrews