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Tim Daly

The Digital Printing Handbook A photographer's guide to creative printing techniques %tentsF. I'4".

Why Digital Printing?

Chapter I Computer hardware

Chapter 2 Imaging fundamentals

Chapter 3 Print media

Chapter 4 Printer control

Chapter 5 Photoshop control

Chapter 6 Essential printing techniques 75

Chapter 7 techniques

Chapter S Colour techniques

Chapter 9 Unconventional media

Chapter I o Reference and resources I37

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Index printer Curves cameras, digital contrast correction canvas size colour correction captions dialogue box CCD dropper tool CDR case custom print sizes A CDR/W disks cutting out channel mixer cyanotype process actions (in Photoshop) 52, 56 colour management adjustment layers 64 CMM aliasing 90 D CMYK mode annotations 91 data size 47 CMYK preview densitometer 52 Apple Macintosh computers 10 CMYK inksets descreen filter 24 archival coated papers materials 151 digital cameras 26,68 Colormailer.com disk formats 30 mounting 143 dithering 48 paper 142 colour adjustment dodging 72 storage 151 colour balance dropper tools 23 archiving images 150 colour cast drivers 148 art papers 44, 54, 126,134 colour depth artifacts 34 colour laser printer mode 102,104,120 colour management curves 102, 103, 104,105,120 B policies DVD disk 12 background layer tools dye-sublimation printer 13 backing-up colour modes dynamic range 2 3 banding colour space bit depth colour variation Bitmap mode E colour wheel edges Bitmap images colourizing emulsion bookbinding compression film type materials computer embedded profiles methods Apple Mac enlarging prints buying a kit Epson borders IBM PC inks emulsion operating systems media film edge platforms printers brightness control monitor printer software burning in upgrading paper profiles bytes Cone Studios ephemera contact sheet EPS file format C contrast error diffusion calibrating converting RGB to CMYK Extensis Photoframe monitor converting RGB to Mono Extensis Portfolio how they work low-contrast printing 108 inks Lyson fading 42,96,142,146 large format feathering limitations file formats M File lnfo media matt papers paper types flatbed scanner megabyte printer software Fotango megapixels Fuji Frontier printer resolution media inks Fuji Pictrography memory card dye microweave Lyson monitor G Piezographic gamma calibration pigment gamut warning CRT Quad GIF flat panel Index mode gradient tool for lnternet printing services grain positioning interpolation profile IS0 mode refresh rate printing size converting to J TFT colourizing JPEG warm-up format 26, 28, 29 monochrome printing H printing from 138, 144 montage quality issues 28, 29, 70, 71 multiple printing hand colouring handmade paper I< N hard diskldrive Kodak Photo CD nearest-neighbour interpolation 70, 71 histogram noise 27 history palette L HueISaturation Lab colour mode 0 laptop computer out-of-gamut colours 66,67 lasso tools optical resolution 46 IBM PC layers scanners 2 2 ICC profile adjustment operating systems iMac blending modes MAC OS 11 image-capture modes file formats supporting Windows 95,98,NT 11 image resolution Levels output profiles 37 image size dialogue box overprinting 126 info palette for correcting brightness infra- printing output inkjet Line art mode painting tools printer types lith printing panoramic prints colours printer RGB gamut in calibration 5 2 RGB colour space printing colour laser 13 RingAround software RIP paper dye sublimation U absorbency 16 archival properties inkjet 13 S colour maintenance 17,132,138 salt print process grain Pictrography 16 saturation manufacture problems 138-9 colourising size profiles 55 reduced in printing sizes solid inkjet 16 scanner storage software 48,49 capture resolution thickness thermal wax 16 colour depth types wide-format inkjet 140 dual purpose weight profiles film paths custom 49, 146 flatbed PC1 slots display 37 optical resolution pen tool for download 146 scanning Photocollege input 36 3D objects Photo CD output 37~49 black and prints Photoframe Photoshop Action profiles 5 6 colour prints Online policies 36 high-contrast originals Photoshop simple X. 55 low-contrast originals colour modes tagging 36 printed matter E PS puddling 124,138 transparencies memory PSD file format 28,29 scratch disk profiles SCSl port scanning through selecting toolbox Q selection processes Quark Xpress type selective toning versions shadow mask Photobox R sharpening picture package RAM sharpness pixels adding extra soft proofing colour values using limited software dimensions reducing CMM new removable media driver size caring for online tools plug-in software storage capacities Somerset paper point size rendering type split toning Portfolio software resampling step wedge print preview resolution storage print selected area RGB mode computer data of prints 151 white balance of removable media 12 Wilhelm Research Inc window mounting T workspace test strip 74, 91 96 wood pulp testing media text layers 33, 70 zip disks printing 909 93 tools 90 texture paper scanning thermal wax printer TIFF format toning tritones TWAIN interface type U uncoated paper

printing mono %. 94,124 printing colour 127 problems with 124,127 Unsharp Mask filter 68,69, 70, 71 upgrading computers 12 USB port 12,22 v variations 64 vectors 21, 70, 90 printing 140 type 709 90 video RAM 11 vintage print processes cyanotype 120 salt print 110

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