- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 3 edition (8 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321241320
- ISBN-13: 978-0321241320
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.3 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,382,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With the advent of desktop publishing came the democratization of graphic design. Which means that these days, with the right equipment, just about anyone can produce graphically sophisticated documents--or clumsy ill-conceived messes. To make sure you end up with the former, you need this comprehensive guide! Realizing that many of today's desktop publishers come to the task with no formal design or graphics training, authors David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, Steve Roth, and Conrad Chavez, detail both the theory and practice of producing top-notch scans and halftones. Through tips, techniques, step-by-step instructions, and real-world examples, you'll learn how to scan, sharpen, and output your images as well as how to correct color and tone. Throughout, the emphasis is on not just how to perform a given task but why it makes sense to do so in a certain way. Filled with sure-fire techniques and practical discussions of today's software and hardware, when it comes to halftones and scans, this guide covers it all!
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Table of Contents (2nd Edition)
Part 1: Scanned Images
1. Waltzing Through the Process
2. Scanners
3. Scanned Images
4. File Formats
5. Image Resolution
6. Choosing Resolution
7. Tonal Correction
8. Color
9. A Sharper Image
10. Compression
11. Images for the Web
12. Color Output
13. OCR
14. Photo CD
Part 1: Scanned Images
1. Waltzing Through the Process
2. Scanners
3. Scanned Images
4. File Formats
5. Image Resolution
6. Choosing Resolution
7. Tonal Correction
8. Color
9. A Sharper Image
10. Compression
11. Images for the Web
12. Color Output
13. OCR
14. Photo CD
Part 2: Halftones
15. Dots, Spots, and Halftones
16. Frequency, Angle, and Spot Shape
17. Frequency Versus Gray Levels
18. Reproducing Halftones
19. Setting Your Screens
20. The Glorious Spot
21. Who Does the Halftone?
22. Stochastic Screening
23. Band Aid
24. When Grids Collide
25. Rosettes and Moires
26. Angle Strategies
27. Controlling Halftone Screens
28. PostScript Halftoning
29. Spot Functions
Part 3: Applications
30. Image Applications
31. Illustration Applications
32. Page-Layout Applications
33. Scanning Applications
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as a companion volume for my recently aquired Nikon IV ED film scanner. Although the book is a little old now it is, nevertheless, highly relevant. It contains much, well explained, detail on all aspects of scanning. I was particularly interested in file formats and what the best and most efficient way to store digital images is. The book covers this in detail. It also explains how to match scanning resolution to output device. Don't be put off by the title - it covers colour scanning and output in considerable detail. Well worth the money and highly recommended to anyone who wants to produce high quality output from their scans.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Newly revised and updated for the modern era, Real World Scanning and Halftones, Second Edition is better than ever and that's good! David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman and Steve Roth have taken a great book and made it even better. When Real World Scanning and Halftones (the first edition) was published back in 1993, it was focused primarily on scanning and printing grayscale images, since at that time there weren't that many people doing a lot of color work on the desktop. Nowadays, of course, just about every color image you see in print (and all you see online) has been processed digitallyand probably in Photoshop. So the Second Edition covers desktop color in much more detail, as well as adding sections on web graphics, output to today's color printers, stochastic screening, and other contemporary technologies.
The goal of this book remains to "provide step-by-step, type-in-the-numbers instructions for getting great-quality images out of your scanners, laser printers, and imagesetters, using a variety of software." This is great stuff. It's not mind-numbingly complicated, but it's not brain-dead simple, either, especially if you have no background in the field. Even if you're a scanning and halftone veteran, you'll find lots of practical, useful information and advice in this book.....
(Review originally appeared on PhotoBooks Web site, (c) 1998 David Herman) END
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is great. I have recently started a new job training as a scanner operator, I have always struggled with ppi, lpi, spi and other technical terms and someone recommended this book to me. It has everything I need to know, everything I want to know plus other stuff I didnt even realise I needed to know (and it is easy to understand too!!)
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A very useful reference
Don't be put of by the reference to halftones! This is a very readable book on an otherwise dry subject of scanning images and their processing end route to screen. Read more
Published on 14 Nov 1998
Excellent book on scanning
This 2nd edition improves on an already very good book on scanning. It adds more information on color, using web graphics, and adds more scanning software explanations. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 1998
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