About the Author

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles. David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com. Lesa Snider is on a mission to teach the world to create--and use!--better graphics. She's a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto, and founder of the creative tutorial site GraphicReporter. Lesa is the author of Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual and Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual (Pogue Press/O'Reilly) and many video training titles including From Photo to Graphic Art, Practical Photoshop Elements, and Photoshop Elements 8 for Photographers (by KelbyTraining.com), and Graphic Secrets for Business Professionals (Lynda.com). She's also teaches Advanced Photoshop for the online design school, Sessions.edu and writes a regular colulmn for Photoshop User magazine called Graphic Secrets, as well as a monthly column for Elements Techniques, and Macworld Magazine. She contributes frequently to CreativePro.com and Layers magazine and can be spotted teaching at Photoshop World, Macworld Expo, UCDA Design Conference, Graphics of the Americas, the Santa Fe Workshops, Geek Girl Camp, as well as a variety of large camera stores across the U.S. During free time, you'll find her carving the twisties on her sportbike or hanging with fellow Apple Mac enthusiasts. Lesa is a proud member of the BMWMOA, F800 Riders Club, the Colorado Mac Users Group, and North Coast Mac Users Group.