Product Description: Color management has moved into the mainstream of the printing industry, and many printers struggle with implementing a color managed workflow. This survey helps to create a benchmark for evaluating the printing industry's success in implementing color management on issues such as workflow, software and instrumentation, technical issues, process control and standards, expenses, and more...read more

A guide to creating professional scans and images covers such topics as selecting a color profile, halftones, adjusting and saving scans, and choosing the proper settings to create sharper images.

Product Description: The complete, practical professional's guide to making the most of your scanner -- Mac or PC! In Avoiding the Scanning Blues, legendary graphic arts trainer Taz Tally offers thorough explanations and step-by-step instructions that can help you make the most of your scanner -- no matter what platform, software, or output medium you're using...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: David Blatner is a Seattle-based consultant specializing in QuarkXPress and Photoshop. He is the author or co-author of The QuarkXPress Book, Real World Photoshop, The Joy of Pi, and Real World QuarkImmedia, and he also writes for Macworld magazine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For most non-designers, especially beginning desktop publishers, the scanning, prepress, and printing process isn't an intuitive one. Trial and error is often the only way to learn the technical basics of producing professional-looking documents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed to help students understand how colour images are perceived, manipulated and ultimately reproduced, this is a comprehensive pocket guide. With the understanding that industry technology will continue to evolve, the focus is placed on the primary principles of colour reproduction...read more

Product Description: Bargain Books are non-returnable. I>Duotones, Tritones, and Quadtones, the long-awaited follow-up to Chronicle's Halftone Effects, is the only guide available that instantly shows designers the wide range of special effects they can create using two, three, or four colors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Learn how the computer gathers information through the scanning process for use on the desktop. This book explores the principles of line, grayscale and color scanning for application within documents. Topics such as image manipulation, file formats, and data compression are discussed in offering the tools necessary to successfully utilize the scanning process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designers and production artists of the 1990s are addressing the technical pre-press aspects on the desktop that traditionally were handled by skilled pre-print specialists. This study examines the many factors, benefits and pitfalls of performing these tasks as they relate to the overall process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book addresses the challenge of trapping and understanding the conversion of light-based digital files on the desktop to producing pigment-based printed images for designers and graphic artists working off the desktop. The factors involved in the precision of reproducing what is seen on the screen to a printed sheet, without falling in to a trapping, or misregistration problem are discussed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An illustrated guide to trapping techniques.

Product Description: This work examines digital colour. The key topics addressed include: creating, modifying and transporting digital colour files; colour management systems; image compression techniques; postscript errors; and digital proofing and inks...read more

Continuing where Looking Good in Print leaves off, a richly illustrated book teaches basics of color theory, color schemes, color psychology, and other color-use issues to MAC and Windows users who are designing and printing in color. Original. (Intermediate).

Product Description: This text aims to coach designers in how to establish skills which should enhance their efficiency and effectiveness. It also provides a range of information relating to colour and electronic publishing.

Product Description: Everyone who starts to use a scanner quickly learns that it's not as simple as it seems. For people who need to produce good-quality scans in short order, former MacWEEK digital pre-press manager Jonathan Hornstein tackles all the tough issues in a solution-oriented format that guarantees quick results...read more

Product Description: Here's the ultimate reference guide for anyone who uses computers to create camera-ready layouts for reproduction. You'll find concise, thorough, and above all, accessible information and advice that avoids pre-press problems, and results in the best possible finished job.

Explains the basic concepts of digital imaging and color, discusses image creation and editing, four-color separation, and digital files, and explains how the Macintosh computer can handle color desktop publishing