Barbara Brundage the author of Photoshop Elements 3: the Missing Manual, and a member of Adobe's pre-release groups for Elements 3 and 4. She's been teaching people how to use Photoshop Elements since it first came out in 2001. Barbara first got interested in Elements for creating graphics for use in her day job as a harpist, music publisher, and arranger. Along the way she joined the large group of people who are finding a renewed interest in photography thanks to digital cameras.