The Macintosh designer's guide to digital imaging : controlling black and white and color output

Who is this book for? It's for Macintosh desktop designers and publishers who want to more fully and creatively control their images. It's also for the desktop publisher whose experience has been limited entirely to text, but who feels ready to take the plunge and incorporate vibrant, professional-quality graphics into brochures, newsletters, and other text-based publications. Why is this book for you? The Macintosh Designer's Guide to Digital Imaging teaches you a full range of techniques for converting images into digital form that can then be manipulated and modified. Written by an accomplished digital graphic artist for a nontechnical audience, it walks you step-by-step through every phase of the imaging process, including scanning, color correction, retouching, sharpening, color separating, and saving for output. Written for a non-technical audience, this book emphasizes the aesthetic goals of graphic design and teaches users how to coordinate the hardware and software programs necessary to create professional-quality images. The text explains fundamental techniques for converting graphic images into digital form that can be manipulated, modified, and then output in paper or electronic form. BASICS. Photoshop Essentials. Resolution and File Size. Ratios and Rulers. Pixels, Dots, and Spots. Setting Up Your Monitor. WORKING. Scanning. Photo CD. Rotate and Crop Precisely. Adjust Size and Resolution. Adjust Gray Values. Color Correcting. Combining Images. Unsharp Masking. Retouching Defects. Creative Enhancements. GETTING IT OUT. Saving Your File. Color Models. Managing Color. Duotones. Page Placement. Separations for Printmaking. Index. This guide to graphics publishing is for Macintosh desktop designers. It explains the fundamental techniques for converting graphic images into digital form that can be manipulated, modified, and then outputted in either paper or electronic form.