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Course Description
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.
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Before You Scan
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| Rec. System Requirements | (04:52) | ||
| Allocating RAM | (04:59) | ||
| Rec. Scanner Features | (04:20) | ||
| Installing ScannerSoftware | (03:10) | ||
| Optical Res & Bit Depth | (02:05) | ||
| Image Types (1, 8, 24-bit) | (02:43) | ||
| Resolution Types | (03:12) | ||
| Resolution Requirements | (03:55) | ||
| Scaling Restrictions | (03:12) | ||
| Basic Photoshop Preferences | (05:14) | ||
| Finding The Sweet Spot | (04:05) | ||
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Scanning Line Art
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| ScanLineArt/Apply Settings | (03:27) | ||
| Cropping Line Art | (03:09) | ||
| Cleaning Up Line Art | (05:12) | ||
| LA/Fine Detail (Photoshop) | (05:28) | ||
| LA/Fine Detail (ScanDefault) | (03:00) | ||
| Saving Line Art | (03:06) | ||
| Troubleshooting Line Art | (03:44) | ||
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Basic Selection Techniques
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| Selecting in Photoshop | (02:34) | ||
| The Marquee Selection | (02:32) | ||
| The Lasso Tool | (06:07) | ||
| The Magic Wand Tool | (07:08) | ||
| Anti Aliasing & Feathering | (06:49) | ||
| Saving Selections | (05:40) | ||
| A Halftone Primer | (06:08) | ||
| A Dot Gain Primer | (04:49) | ||
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Halftones- Before You Scan
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| Paper Stock | (06:10) | ||
| Output Device Limitations | (07:21) | ||
| Grayscale Scan Settings | (03:36) | ||
| The Gamma Control Panel | (05:54) | ||
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Scanning Halftones
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| AssessingYourScan (Levels) | (06:00) | ||
| Highlight and Shadow Dot | (06:10) | ||
| Hi/Lo PressLimitTest Strip | (03:28) | ||
| The CurvesDialog(Contrast) | (08:24) | ||
| The Curves Dialog (Tips) | (05:43) | ||
| Compensating for Dot Gain | (06:48) | ||
| Sharpening (Unsharp Mask) | (07:23) | ||
| Retouching (Rubber Stamp) | (05:05) | ||
| Retouching with Copy/Paste | (05:12) | ||
| Saving Your Halftones | (03:09) | ||
| Scanning Halftone In Action | (12:00) | ||
| Troubleshooting Halftones | (06:52) | ||
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Color- Before You Scan
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| Intro to Working in Color | (08:19) | ||
| Evaluate Hardware & Environment | (09:13) | ||
| Preferences (Monitor Setup) | (03:30) | ||
| Editing in RGB vs. CMYK | (04:51) | ||
| Gray Balance/Neutral Grays | (05:09) | ||
| Assessing the Original | (04:14) | ||
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Scanning Color Images
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| Scanner Settings (Color) | (02:09) | ||
| Setting Endpoints (Color) | (06:43) | ||
| Unsharp Mask ... (Color) | (05:10) | ||
| Adjusting Color Balance | (04:55) | ||
| Selective Editing | (03:57) | ||
| Gamut Warning/CMYK Conversion | (07:10) | ||
| Fundamental Color Correcting | (07:17) | ||
| Saving (TIFF, EPS, DCS files) | (05:43) | ||
| Black Generation (UCR/GCR) | (03:53) | ||
| Scanning Color (in action) | (14:03) | ||
| Troubleshooting Color Images | (04:14) | ||
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Production Techniques
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| Creating a Silhouette | (10:16) | ||
| Pen Tool Basics | (07:46) | ||
| Creating a Clipping Path | (08:50) | ||
| More on the Paths Palette | (08:37) | ||
| Clipping with More Than 1 Path | (04:21) | ||
| Make a Selection from a Path | (05:02) | ||
| Troubleshooting Clip Paths | (03:59) | ||
| Tracing Images Manually | (09:51) | ||
| Tracing with Adobe Streamline | (13:31) | ||
| Converting Vectors to Pixels | (05:50) | ||
| Vectors to Pixels (2) | (05:03) | ||
| Vector to Pixels - Type | (05:00) | ||
| Soft Drop Shadows 1 | (09:15) | ||
| Soft Drop Shadows 2 | (05:44) | ||
| Soft Drop Shadows 3 | (03:01) | ||
| Soft Drop Shadows 4 | (02:40) | ||
| Beating Moire (Grayscale) | (07:24) | ||
| Beating Moire (Color) | (03:25) | ||
| Duotones and Quadtones | (13:01) | ||
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| Course: | Scanning and PrePress |
| Author: | Donnie O« Quinn |
| SKU: | 33019 |
| ISBN: | 1889347256 |
| Release Date: | 1996-01-01 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 79 tutorials |
| Captions: | No |
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