Production for print
This book gives designers the confidence to do everything necessary to ensure trouble-free, high-quality printing-to calibrate images (color and black and white); adjust trapping levels in all the major software applications, and mix colors that won't print as something that is a complete surpr...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Laurence King Pub
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Portfolio Skills
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628841606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; The Evolution of an Industry; The changing face of graphic design; How it all started; From letterpress to litho; Advances in typesetting; The font wars; Film technology; Filmless technology; The offset litho process; Other printing methods; Four-Color Printing Explained; A word about paper weights and sizes; Imposition; CMY... K?; Screen angles and screen clash; Beyond four colors; Understanding Color; RGB vs. CMYK; Color opposites; How you perceive color; A case study; How do you pick the colors you need?; Some color psychology; Getting the most out of your monitor
- Backward calibrationOther calibration methods; Calibrating a Grayscale Image; Dealing with highlights and shadows; Creating a dot-gain test strip; A practical example of grayscale calibration; Adding contrast; Bitmaps and Pixel Depth; Why are there 256 shades in a grayscale image?; Pixel depth in color images; Calibrating Color Images; Getting started; Gray component replacement; GCR in action; Highlights and mid-tones; Dealing with color balance; Photoshop color settings; Calibration test-strip settings; Good and Bad Image Formats... and Others!; Good image formats; Bad image formats
- ...and the ""Other"" CategoryImages from the web: optimization and resolution; Genuine fractals; Resolution and Scanning; What is so special about 300?; Creating an efficient workflow; Scanning original material; Scanning previously printed images; Trapping; What is trapping?; Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW; Photoshop, InDesign, and Quark; Creating and using a rich black; Registration and trim marks; Trapping into a rich black; Using Pantone Colors; The Pantone formula guides; Other Pantone products; Photoshop Tips and More; Changing an object's color; Smooth gradients
- Using desaturation to avoid RGB problemsFixing foreshortening; Useful grayscale options; Sharpening images in Photoshop; Choosing the right halftone dot shape; Preparing the File for the Printer; A printing checklist; Using InDesign; Using Adobe Acrobat; Marks and bleeds; Output; Advanced; Using QuarkXPress; Tools of the trade, and more; Glossary; Index; Acknowledgments
