Table of Contents

Introduction; The Printed Page: a Brief History; On the Press; A Word about Paper; Four-Colour Printing Explained; Understanding Colour; Getting the Most out of Your Monitor; Calibrating a Greyscale Image with Photoshop; Bitmaps and Pixel Depth; Calibrating Colour Images; Colour Management Systems; Good and Bad Image Formats; Using Images Downloaded from the Web; Scanning; Trapping; Using Pantone Colours; Photoshop Tips and More; Preparing the File for the Printer; Glossary; Index

About the Author

Mark Gatter has been a freelance designer for 12 years, prior to which he worked for 11 years in commercial printing. His clients include IBM, Lotus and LYW Archive Boston. He teaches software courses in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXpress and CorelDraw as well as custom courses covering all aspects of digital repro and prepress.