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Avoiding the Scanning Blues: A Desktop Scanning Primer

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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.

This book is very short, and a little bit more valuable than its companion book, "Less Than"

I was very pleased with the condition and the promtness of receiving this book. I highly recommend this seller.