Describes how to attain professional-looking prints from digital photographs, covering such topics as choosing a printer, creating proof sheets, building a photo website, and preparing digital slideshows.

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: 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: Professionals who are looking for clear expl anations, concepts and techniques for producing high-quality printing will find the Makeready manual an indispensable gu ide. The book aims to teach DTP professionals how to produce prepress files. '

Product Description: An illustrated guide to trapping techniques.

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: This book describes the basic principles involved in DTP and provides practical guidance, hints and tips. A large part of the book is devoted to the subject of 'correct scanning and printing' for all users of DTP technology. In order to obtain optimum results when scanning and printing photographs, it is important to have a basic understanding of the technology...read more

Product Description: This book will provide all Dtp (desk top publishing) users who want to integrate photos in their documents with practical hints and numerical values for image editing and printing. It is aimed at Dtp beginners as well as professional users and deals comprehensively with scanning, picture-editing and printing...read more