Real World Scanning Halftones

Preface: Primal Screens
Overview
Contents
Part 1:Scanned Images
	Chapter 1. Waltzing Through the Process: An Introduction to Scanning
		Real World Scanning
	Chapter 2. Scanners: What You Need and What You Get
		Scanning Factors
		Scanning Right
		Resolution
		Bit Depth and Dynamic Range
		Software
		Scanner Types
		Putting Bits in a Bucket
	CHAPTER 3. Scanned Images: Anatomy of a Bitmap
		What Is a Bitmap?
		Characteristics of Bitmapped Graphics
		Bitmaps and File Size
		What’s in a Bitmap?
	Chapter 4. File Formats: Which One and Why
		Placing, Printing, and Editing
		Objects and Bitmaps
		Bitmapped File Formats
		Object-Oriented File Formats
		Fuhgettabout ’Em
		File Types, Extensions, and Magic Numbers
		Working with Files
	Chapter 5 Image Resolution: Scanning, Scaling, and Resampling
		They’re All Just Dots
		Scanning versus Image Resolution
		Firm Resolutions
	Chapter 6. Choosing Resolution: When Enough Is Enough
		Line Art
		Grayscale and Color
		Resolution and Quality
	Chapter 7. Tonal Correction: Getting Great Grays
		Histograms
		Gray-Map Curves
		Linear Correction
		Nonlinear Correction
		Keeping in Tone
	Chapter 8. COLOR: Painting by Numbers
		Declaring (In)dependence
		Corrections
		Color Management Systems
		Color Me Corrected
	Chapter 9. A Sharper Image: Getting Rid of the Blurries
		Unsharp Masking
		Unsharp Masking in Photoshop
		Color Sharpening
		Running the Numbers
	Chapter 10. Compression: Getting Small
		Lossless
		Lossy
		Other Resources
		Small Is Beautiful
	CHAPTER 11. Images for the Web: real World Wide Web
		File Formats
		Scanning and Correcting
		Web Specials
		FTP Hazards
		Welcome to the World
	Chapter 12. Color Output: Matching Input to Output
		Film Recording
		Printing on Substrates
		Proof Positive
	Chapter 13. OCR: Just Read It
		How It Do What It Do
		Tips
		Workflow
		The Last Word
	Chapter 14. Photo CD: Bright Lights, Big Images
		Making a Photo CD
		What You Get
		Accessing Images
		Why Use It?
		What, Me Worry?
Part 2: Halftones
	Chapter 15. Dots, Spots, and Halftones: How Halftones Work
		The Spots the Thing
		Photographic Halftones
		Digital Halftones
		Halftones, Tints, and Screens
	CHAPTER 16. Frequency, Angle, and Spot Shape: What Makes a Halftone
		Screen Frequency
		Screen Angle
		Spot Shape
		Eggs-cell-ent
	Chapter 17. Frequency versus Gray Levels: Trade-offs in Digital Halftoning
		Screen Frequency, Gray Levels, and Output Resolution
		Scarcity of Dots
		The Rule of Sixteen
		Variable Laser Dots
		Who Needs 256 Grays?
	Chapter 18. Reproducing Halftones: Spot Variation and the Printing Process
		Spot Variation
		What Causes Spot Variation?
		Upper and Lower Tint Limits
		DTP versus the Blob
	Chapter 19. Setting Your Screens: Frequency and Spot Gain
		The Problem with High Frequencies
		Factors to Consider
		Maximizing Your Frequencies
	Chapter 20. The Glorious Spot: spot Shapes for Quality and Special Effects
		On the Spot
		Spot Shapes
		Special-Effect Spots
		Spots
	Chapter 21. Who Does the Halftone? Printers and Software
		Halftoning in PostScript
		Halftoning in Software
		Streamlining the Process
	Chapter 22. Stochastic Screening: Halftoning Alternatives
		Why a Speck?
		What’s in a Speck?
		Random Difficulties
		Stochastic Advantages
		Regular Patterns and Dithering
		Give Specks a Chance
		Collisions Ahead
	Chapter 23. Band Aid: Fountains, Blends, and Vignettes
		Shade-Stepping
		To Make a Blend
		Banding and Reproduction
		Getting Great Blends
	Chapter 24. When Grids Collide: Avoiding Patterns and Moires
		Color Separations
		Halftoning Halftones
		Content Moires
		Black-and-White Bitmaps with Repeating Patterns
		Love Those Patterns
	CHAPTER 25. Rosettes and Moires: Beauty and the Beast
		Minimal Moires
		The Rosette
		Moire Reducers
		Go Forth and Moire No More
	CHAPTER 26. Angle Strategies: Getting Irrational
		Requesting Angles and Frequencies
		When You Need an Angle
	Chapter 27. Controlling halftone screens! What Overrides What
		Who’s on First?
		Chapter 28. PostScript Halftoning: setscreen, setgray, image, imagemask, and settransfer
		Built-in Goodness
		PostScript Operators
		The Weird World of PostScript
	Chapter 29. Spot Functions: Inside the Halftone cell
		The Dot Grid
		The Function
		The Strangest Spot Functions
		Spot Functions and Page Orientation
		Caching Spots
		On the Spot
Part 3: Applications
	Chapter 30. Image Applications: Messing with Bitmaps
		Photoshop
		Picture Publisher
		CorelPhoto-Paint
		Photoimpact
		DeBabelizer
		Slick Image
	Chapter 31. Illustration Applications: Drawing Pictures
		Adobe Illustrator
		Macromedia FreeHand
		CorelDraw
		Draw, Pardner
	Chapter 32. Page-Layout Applications: Putting It All Together
		Adobe PageMaker
		QuarkXPress
		Putting It Together
	Chapter 33. Scanning Applications: Picture Perfect
		TWAIN and Photoshop Plug-ins
		Scanning Software
		Scannerifk and Halftonarama!
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