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. From scanning fundamentals to sophisticated color, calibration, and Tally's "Top 100 Line Art and B&W Photo Scanning Tips," this is the expert scanning guide every graphics professional needs. Avoiding the Scanning Blues is supported by a companion Web site containing images from the book, resources, bonus Tips & Tricks, links to leading hardware and software manufacturers, updates, and more.
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The human eye can perceive about 5,000 shades of gray, points out Avoiding the Scanning Blues: A Complete Guide to Desktop Scanning. By the time a real-life scene has been photographed, printed on photographic paper, and scanned, it has been reduced to 250 shades of gray, at best. Laser printing usually reduces the palette further, to 125 shades. The challenge of the professional graphic artist is to use the scanner properly to minimize the effect of this technical limitation. With an emphasis on that goal, this book explains techniques for professional scanner use. It treats scanners as the powerful tools that they are, and not merely toys for attaching photographs in e-mail messages. This book is one of very few that take scanner work seriously, and it's definitely worth buying if you're a professional or avid amateur scanner of images.
Most chapters begin with clear explanations of concepts; the logic being that you can't get far as a manipulator of images if you don't know what terms mean, or what effects various pieces of the imaging chain have on the end product. The style is concise and readable (although, for clarity, mathematical equations should have been set out from the body text), and illustrations ("good" and "bad" sample photos, plus screen shots) enhance the text. Easy-to-follow how-to passages appear throughout, most of which have to do with aspects of Adobe Photoshop. The book challenges you to scan practice images that have problematic visual characteristics and fix some intentionally bad originals. --David Wall
Topics covered: Scanning for professionals, with an emphasis on getting the highest possible printed product from the originals at hand; in-depth coverage of evaluating an image to be scanned, performing the scanning process, and performing filtering and other manipulations on newly digitized images; also, the specifics of transparency and negative scanning, as well as of digital image theory.
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"This is the most accurate information on this subject that I have seen published. Extremely comprehensive." - Frank Romano, founder, Electronic Publishing Magazine "...A voice that communicates technical information without jargonizing readers. Taz is an insatiable learner and trainer." - Howie Fenton, Senior Technical Consultant, Graphic Arts Technical Foundation
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A useful reference for desktop publishers,
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"Avoiding the Scanning Blues" explains how to scan images in such a way that they can be successfully reproduced by a commercial printer. That's fine if your only interest is commercial printing, but it's of limited value if you want to produce photo-quality prints from an inkjet or Fujix printer.Also note that Mr. Tally assumes you'll be using a flatbed scanner. He makes no mention at all of film scanners or of scanning film. Granted, most of the rules that apply to flatbed scanning apply to film scanning as well, but the least he could have done was to say so. To his credit, he provides a great deal of valuable information, most of it neatly summarized at the end of every chapter. Unfortunately, the page layout is cluttered with examples and illustrations that compete with, rather than complement, the text. If you have any familiarity with scanning at all, you may find yourself reading the summaries first and resorting to the main text only for clarification. If your only interest is producing scans for desktop publishing, this book is still a good investment. If not, you may find it misses the mark.
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This review is from: Avoiding The Scanning Blues: A Desktop Scanning Primer (Paperback)
This book is very short, and a little bit more valuable than its companion book, "Less Than"
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Avoiding the Scanning Blues,
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I was very pleased with the condition and the promtness of receiving this book. I highly recommend this seller.
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