Course Title: Scanning and PrePress



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.


Course Author/Expert: Donnie OĞ Quinn

Language: english

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 79

Course Duration: 6 hours



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Before You Scan


Rec. System Requirements

Allocating RAM

Rec. Scanner Features

Installing ScannerSoftware

Optical Res & Bit Depth

Image Types (1, 8, 24-bit)

Resolution Types

Resolution Requirements

Scaling Restrictions

Basic Photoshop Preferences

Finding The Sweet Spot


Scanning Line Art


ScanLineArt/Apply Settings

Cropping Line Art

Cleaning Up Line Art

LA/Fine Detail (Photoshop)

LA/Fine Detail (ScanDefault)

Saving Line Art

Troubleshooting Line Art


Basic Selection Techniques


Selecting in Photoshop

The Marquee Selection

The Lasso Tool

The Magic Wand Tool

Anti Aliasing & Feathering

Saving Selections

A Halftone Primer

A Dot Gain Primer


Halftones- Before You Scan


Paper Stock

Output Device Limitations

Grayscale Scan Settings

The Gamma Control Panel


Scanning Halftones


AssessingYourScan (Levels)

Highlight and Shadow Dot

Hi/Lo PressLimitTest Strip

The CurvesDialog(Contrast)

The Curves Dialog (Tips)

Compensating for Dot Gain

Sharpening (Unsharp Mask)

Retouching (Rubber Stamp)

Retouching with Copy/Paste

Saving Your Halftones

Scanning Halftone In Action

Troubleshooting Halftones


Color- Before You Scan


Intro to Working in Color

Evaluate Hardware & Environment

Preferences (Monitor Setup)

Editing in RGB vs. CMYK

Gray Balance/Neutral Grays

Assessing the Original


Scanning Color Images


Scanner Settings (Color)

Setting Endpoints (Color)

Unsharp Mask ... (Color)

Adjusting Color Balance

Selective Editing

Gamut Warning/CMYK Conversion

Fundamental Color Correcting

Saving (TIFF, EPS, DCS files)

Black Generation (UCR/GCR)

Scanning Color (in action)

Troubleshooting Color Images


Production Techniques


Creating a Silhouette

Pen Tool Basics

Creating a Clipping Path

More on the Paths Palette

Clipping with More Than 1 Path

Make a Selection from a Path

Troubleshooting Clip Paths

Tracing Images Manually

Tracing with Adobe Streamline

Converting Vectors to Pixels

Vectors to Pixels (2)

Vector to Pixels - Type

Soft Drop Shadows 1

Soft Drop Shadows 2

Soft Drop Shadows 3

Soft Drop Shadows 4

Beating Moire (Grayscale)

Beating Moire (Color)

Duotones and Quadtones









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