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Summary: Table of Contents
Review: Part 1: Halftones
1. Dots, Spots, and Halftones
2. Frequency, Angle, and Spot Shape
3. Frequency vs. Gray Levels
4. Reproducing Halftones
5. Setting Your Screens
6. The Glorious Spot
7. Who Does the Halftone?
8. Beyond the Spot
9. Band Aid
10. When Grids Collide
11. Rosettes and Moires
12. Frequencies, Angles, and Moires
13. Controlling Halftone ScreensPart 2: Scanning
14. Waltzing Through the Process
15. Scanners
16. Scanned Images
17. File Formats
18. Image Resolution
19. Choosing Resolution
20. Tonal Correction
21. A Sharper Image
22. Getting Small
23. Just Read It
24. Photo CD Part 3: PostScript
25. PostScript Halftoning
26. Spot Functions Part 4: Applications
27. Image Applications
28. Page-Layout Applications
29. Illustration Applications
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Summary: Table of Contents (2nd Edition)
Review: 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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Summary: Excellent book on scanning
Review: 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. If you think you need a 1200 dpi scanner for web work, check this book out and find out why you probably don't. The book will save you time and money and show you how to improve your graphic outputs. It's well worth the money.
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Summary: This has an excellent blend of theory and specific detail.
Review: This is an excellent blend of specific, useful detail about particular software applications (as of 1993) and general information about halftones. It rarely becomes too technical, and never too insubstantial. The book is worth keeping as a reference, and, if there were a second edition, I would buy it without hesitation
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Summary: Second edition expands, updates, and responds
Review: 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.
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Summary: What I didn't know, I didn't know about digital halftones.
Review: When the author suggested that the proper way to read this book was cover to cover. I thought sure every author wants you to hang on every word. What I found was in reading cover to cover was little insights from page to page created a new model about halftones and how they relate to image setters and laser printers. I continually got "so thats why". I recommend this book to all my customers as a definitive source for scanning and output. It takes a subject that is a mystery to us printers born or trained before 1980 and clearly mates our analog knowledge with the digital world we now work in. I'm 60 and run an answer line for digital plate distributors.
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Summary: What I didn't know, I didn't know about digital halftones.
Review: When the author suggested that the proper way to read this book was cover to cover. I thought sure every author wants you to hang on every word. What I found was in reading cover to cover was little insights from page to page created a new model about halftones and how they relate to image setters and laser printers. I continually got "so thats why". I recommend this book to all my customers as a definitive source for scanning and output. It takes a subject that is a mystery to us printers born or trained before 1980 and clearly mates our analog knowledge with the digital world we now work in. I'm 60 and run an answer line for digital plate distributors.
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