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. He lectures around North America and Japan on the subject of desktop publishing. Glenn Fleishman lives in Seattle, where he commutes daily on the Internet. His start in typesetting led--directly and indirectly--to graphic design, system administration, Web development, online retailing, and Web advertising confernces. He writes a regular column for Adobe Magazine. Steve Roth, creator of the Real World series, has authored, co-authored, and/or produced several of teh seminal books on desktop publishing. He is the CEO of Thunder LIzard Productions, which produces the Photoshop Conference, QuarkXPress Conference, Web Design Conference, and several other technology events.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #376964 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

From the Publisher
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 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

From the Author
Second edition expands, updates, and responds
We wrote a second edition in part because of support from our readers for it. You wanted more (and newer) information on color and color management, scanning images aimed for the World Wide Web, and stochastic screening, among other issues. We rewrote the book for up-to-the-minute explanations of the oldest and newest scanning and halftones technology and tips. Want to know how FlashPix works? See Chapter 4, File Formats. Need to modify CorelDraw for a custom screen? See Part 3, Applications. Readers at Amazon.com (see below) have noted they were waiting for a second edition - and it's here. We'd love to hear from you if you've read the book or just have questions.

From the Back Cover

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. He lectures around North America and Japan on the subject of desktop publishing.

Glenn Fleishman lives in Seattle, where he commutes daily on the Internet. His start in typesetting led--directly and indirectly--to graphic design, system administration, Web development, online retailing, and Web advertising confernces. He writes a regular column for Adobe Magazine.

Steve Roth, creator of the Real World series, has authored, co-authored, and/or produced several of teh seminal books on desktop publishing. He is the CEO of Thunder LIzard Productions, which produces the Photoshop Conference, QuarkXPress Conference, Web Design Conference, and several other technology events.

Customer Reviews

Perfect Companion for any Scanner
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.

Don't buy a scanner without buying this book
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

Everything you need to know - and more!
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!!)