Understanding world of commercial full color printing may take us a few years to grasp completely. But in a nutshell, here’s an introduction of necessary concepts with regards to it.

1.Halftones – this simple process of adding some color even if it’s only gray. In this, an image setter is quite handy, although presents its problems because of being a binary digital device. It can only produce black pixels or leave white spaces. Still, there is its resolution in handy and human eye’s limitation to make some tricks work. Each pixel of an imageset is smaller than eye can resolve. Once a dot has been built up, it will be perceived as a 50% gray.

This kind of optical illusion is to break image into a very fine grid with each square of grid given an appropriate gray level. The imagesetter is used to simulate this gray level by creating its own grid and fills in appropriate number of pixels. The notional grids that break image into cells are called screens. A halftone is then created by resulting image that gives impression of continuous grayscales.

You must be aware that old techniques most of time, is lacking thus, we have to incorporate various and recent techniques in order to come up with a fabulous creation that can transcend limitations.

When you are taking a subject which has strong light and deep shadows, you have to capture both details and range of tones. You can do it by taking two or more different shots or images. When your subject is not moving, it is easy for you to have several original and identical images. Then seize different exposures. After that, you can combine them together to give an atmosphere of transparency. Bear in mind though, that you have to know exposure latitude. If you are not sure about what you are doing, just bracket exposures to capture highlights and shadows.