Publishing with Photoshop Book

Chapter 1: Continuous Toneas opposed to Drawing Lineart vs. continuous tone; The illusion of reality; Fine art graphics; Photography; Scans; General usage Chapter 2: Dealing with bitmaps Playing with pixels; Color depth; Aliasing and the anti...; File size; RAM and disk requirements Chapter 3: Photoshop's Interface The window; The Toolbox; The palettes; History; Preferences; Basic setup and defaults Chapter 4: Photoshop's Abilities Adjustments; Transformations; Actions; Shortcuts; Filters Chapter 5: Accessing pieces Selection techniques; Quick mask; Channels; Masks; Plug-ins Chapter 6: Layers Keeping things separate; Blending layers; layer effects; resurrecting bad originals Chapter 7: Bitmapped Type Type tool; Tracking, kerning, leading, baseline shifting; Transforming type; When is Photoshop the best choice? Chapter 8: Color Color spaces or Color systems? The complexity of color vision; Color terminology & The artists' color wheel; The colors of light; The colors of ink; Four-color process; Spot color; High-fidelity (hi-fi) color; Commodity color; Photoshop's modes:; Bitmap, Grayscale, Duotones, Indexed, RGB, CMYK. Lab, Spot & PMS; Color naming & usage problems Chapter 9: Color management Colorsync; Profiles; Learning what you want Chapter 10: Linescreen and halftones Presses and printers require dots; There are two basic types of dots: Halftones (AM), Stochastic (FM); Printed halftones; Linescreen usage/Lines per inch; The upper limits of linescreen and Practical consideration.; Technical variations: Shape of the dots; Producing The illusion of variability; Printer resolution requirements; Practical considerations Chapter 11: Making it print well Check out a Rembrandt etching; Most jobs are limited; B&W brings clarity; Tips on halftone production; Dot gain; Commercial printers use presses; Quick printers use duplicators; Generational shifts; Miscellaneous problems; Target dot ranges; A 7 step process: #1-Photo Location; #2-Set the size & resolution; #3-Adjust the scan; #4-Crop the scan to size; #5-Clean up the image; #6-Adjust the levels and apply curves; #7-Sharpen with unsharp mask Chapter 12: Printing Color Well Color printing concepts & skills; Color reading list; Color handling tips; Process printing; Angled screens; Screen visibility; The standard process angles; The rosette; Let's print in color! Density range; Duotones; Multitone problems; Fake duotones; Making separations Chapter 13: Web Graphics Resolution & size issues; Generating GIFs; Generating JPEGs; Web versions of print graphics; Minimum stroke sizes; The problem with gradients; Compression issues Chapter 14: Miscellaneous techniques Handmade stochastic; Ghosting; Posterizations; Clipping paths; Colorizing tiffs; Working in a team; Setting it up for prepress Chapter 15: Printing problems & PDF workflow Fonts; links; graphic transformations; supplier requirements; printability - aiding the process; the PDF solution; Proofs - how many & what type? Appendix A: Teaching style & expectations Appendix B: Glossary Appendix C: Index