Prepress artistry
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Fine-art book publisher Callaway Editions successfully used Agfa's PostScript-based ColorScape turnkey prepress system to produce the publisher's most recent book, Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives. ColorScape consists of a Sun Microsystems SPARCstation, Agfa ImageServer, Agfa SelectSet 5000 imagesetter, Agfa Rapidline 66 film processor and Agfa PIX image processing software. Nicholas Callaway hired photographer, filmmaking and printing expert Richard Benson to correct image color and produce final film on the ColorScape. Benson had to work with stock transparencies and copy prints that varied in color and quality. Benson's image processing steps included scanning both color and monochrome images with an RGB scanner, cleaning up and color-correcting the images with PIX, converting O'Keefe's painting to CMYK and Stieglitz's photographs to gray scale, compensating for the stock grain, production of compensated negatives, proofing and printing of film. R.R. Donnelley and Sons printed the book.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1993
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Forged in Photoshop
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N.Y. Gold, the publisher of a yearly promotional catalog of New York photographers, used image editing tricks to create the cover for its latest brochure. For example, digital illustration designers took a photograph of a manhole and manipulated the lettering on the manhole cover to say 'CITY OF NY GOLD.' The intricate process began with removing the existing lettering with Photoshop's Rubber Stamp Tool. Emphasizing and highlighting was performed with Levels, Curves, Hue, Saturation, Color Balance, and Sharpen. New letters were added by first creating their shadows then placing typeset letters on top of the shadows. Adobe's Illustrator 3.2, Pagemaker 5.9 and Photoshop 2.5 were used to manipulate and fine-tune the image. Agfa Fototune scanning software, a Macintosh Quadra 800, an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 and an Arcus Plus 30b flatbed color scanner were employed to get the image onto the computer.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1995
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Photo CD comes of age; new tools for reading images make Photo CD a powerful prepress option
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Kodak's Photo CD technology is finding a role as a powerful prepress tool, despite Kodak's early mistakes in marketing the technology and the company's failure to provide low-cost, high-quality software for converting images to the CMYK color model. A wide variety of applications are now available for acquiring YCC (the Photo CD color model) images. Photo CD images are relatively inexpensive, but require careful attention in order to get the most out of them. The early problems were related to the way data was acquired from disks. These problems have been solved and many catalog, magazine and book publishers now use Photo CD as a low-cost and portable method of managing images.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1995
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