Ken Milburn started his career as a professional photographer when he was still in high school by specializing in weddings and portraits of his classmates. Since then, his photographic career has included starlet publicity photos for Universal Pictures, album covers for several labels (including Capitol Records), editorial work for a number of publications (including The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and TV Guide), and a long list of advertising clients (including Southern California Gas, Cole of California, Strega Liqueurs, and the Fleur Corporation). He sells his photographs and digital art at art festivals and fine art galleries, and his work has been featured three times in Design Graphics Magazine and twice in Computer Graphics World. Most recently, he won Sunshine Artists Magazines annual award for best art festival poster of the year; the poster was featured on the cover of the May 2006 issue.

Ken's photographic career has been paralleled by a long career as a writer. He started by writing two feature films, but most of his writing has been in the form of columns, how-to articles, and technical books on the subject of computer graphics. He has written more than 300 columns and articles (many of which have featured his photographs) for such national trade magazines as Publish, DV Magazine, MacWorld, Computer Graphics World, PC World, and InfoWorld. He has also been a contributing editor and columnist for Computer Currents and MicroTimes.

In addition, Ken is the principal author of 27 computer books, the majority of which focus on various versions on Photoshop and digital photography. Ken is the author of both the first and second editions of The Digital Photography Bible (Wiley), as well as Digital Photography, 99 Easy Tips to Make You Look Like a Pro (Osborne), Photoshop Elements 2.0 Complete (Osborne), The Photoshop 7 Virtual Classroom (with live-motion lessons on the CD-ROM), Master Visually Photoshop 6.0 (Wiley), Master Visually Photoshop 5.5 (Wiley), and Photoshop 5.5 Get Professional Results (McGraw-Hill). His latest books are Photoshop CS2 for Photographers Only (Wiley) with co-author Doug Sahlin and, of course, the first edition of Digital Photography: Expert Techniques (O'Reilly).

Ken has taken his Photoshop and digital photography expertise to an even broader user base by working as a contributing editor for the MSNPhoto web site, authoring user hints for the PhotoWorks online film processing and printing service, and serving as an instructor for three courses at www. sessions.edu.

The cover images are original photographs by Ken Milburn. The cover fonts are Linotype Birka and Adobe Myriad Condensed. The text and heading fonts are Linotype Birka and Adobe Myriad Condensed, and the sidebar font is Adobe Syntax.