Scanning and PrePress

Training Provided by The Virtual Training Company Donny O'Quinn tackles important input and output problems in over six hours of QuickTime movies. Virtual Training Company's Scanning and Prepress training title teaches you how to use PhotoShop and other applications to get the most out of scanning and prepress techniques used by prepress professionals. Donny will take your hand and lead you through scanning line art, halftone and color images, basic selection techniques, halftone and color images, drop shadows, using duo tones and quad tones, beating moirZ patterns, and much more. Virtual Training Company allows you to begin learning immediately by simply clicking below on the selection of your choice.

Scanning and PrePress

Before You Scan

1. Rec. System Requirements
2. Allocating RAM
3. Rec. Scanner Features
4. Installing ScannerSoftware
5. Optical Res & Bit Depth
6. Image Types (1, 8, 24-bit)
7. Resolution Types
8. Resolution Requirements
9. Scaling Restrictions
10. Basic Photoshop Preferences
11. Finding The Sweet Spot

Scanning Line Art

1. ScanLineArt/Apply Settings
2. Cropping Line Art
3. Cleaning Up Line Art
4. LA/Fine Detail (Photoshop)
5. LA/Fine Detail (ScanDefault)
6. Saving Line Art
7. Troubleshooting Line Art

Basic Selection Techniques

1. Selecting in Photoshop
2. The Marquee Selection
3. The Lasso Tool
4. The Magic Wand Tool
5. Anti Aliasing & Feathering
6. Saving Selections
7. A Halftone Primer
8. A Dot Gain Primer

Halftones- Before You Scan

1. Paper Stock
2. Output Device Limitations
3. Grayscale Scan Settings
4. The Gamma Control Panel

Scanning Halftones

1. AssessingYourScan (Levels)
2. Highlight and Shadow Dot
3. Hi/Lo PressLimitTest Strip
4. The CurvesDialog(Contrast)
5. The Curves Dialog (Tips)
6. Compensating for Dot Gain
7. Sharpening (Unsharp Mask)
8. Retouching (Rubber Stamp)
9. Retouching with Copy/Paste
10. Saving Your Halftones
11. Scanning Halftone In Action
12. Troubleshooting Halftones

Color- Before You Scan

1. Intro to Working in Color
2. Evaluate Hardware & Environment
3. Preferences (Monitor Setup)
4. Editing in RGB vs. CMYK
5. Gray Balance/Neutral Grays
6. Assessing the Original

Scanning Color Images

1. Scanner Settings (Color)
2. Setting Endpoints (Color)
3. Unsharp Mask ... (Color)
4. Adjusting Color Balance
5. Selective Editing
6. Gamut Warning/CMYK Conversion
7. Fundamental Color Correcting
8. Saving (TIFF, EPS, DCS files)
9. Black Generation (UCR/GCR)
10. Scanning Color (in action)
11. Troubleshooting Color Images

Production Techniques

1. Creating a Silhouette
2. Pen Tool Basics
3. Creating a Clipping Path
4. More on the Paths Palette
5. Clipping with More Than 1 Path
6. Make a Selection from a Path
7. Troubleshooting Clip Paths
8. Tracing Images Manually
9. Tracing with Adobe Streamline
10. Converting Vectors to Pixels
11. Vectors to Pixels (2)
12. Vector to Pixels - Type
13. Soft Drop Shadows 1
14. Soft Drop Shadows 2
15. Soft Drop Shadows 3
16. Soft Drop Shadows 4
17. Beating Moire (Grayscale)
18. Beating Moire (Color)
19. Duotones and Quadtones

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