SAVE ON PRINTING COST WITH TWO INKS

Written by BLUR LOTERIÑA


If you’re familiar with black and white photos on magazines, you might be confused whether it is really a black and white image. Sometimes you’ll notice thatrepparttar color is closer to brown or pale yellow.

There’s an easy way to create this effect,repparttar 107301 duotone process.

Duotone, fromrepparttar 107302 word duo, means two colors. This is often used in making monochromatic print. It is done by adding a color tint to black and white images. Black ink and gray ink are used to smooth out or allocate different color to specific part, and increase tonal range from lightest to darkest.

Duotone also covers monotone, tritone and quadtone. Monotone, fromrepparttar 107303 word mono, refers to images that have only one color. Tritone images are those that use three colors. Images that contain four colors are known asrepparttar 107304 quadtone. Tritone and quadtone images primarily userepparttar 107305 Overprint Colors button. This will allow you to controlrepparttar 107306 interaction of your ink.

To access Duotone, go to image, then to Mode, and select Duotone. If you are using RGB or CMYK, you will have set your workspace to grayscale first. To do so, select Image, go to Mode and choose Grayscale.

Next, select Image, then Mode, and then Duotone. A dialog box will appear. It is where you have to selectrepparttar 107307 colors you want.

Openrepparttar 107308 Color Picker by clicking onrepparttar 107309 color swatch. Then, click onrepparttar 107310 Custom button. A pop-up menu will open. Selectrepparttar 107311 type of ink and chooserepparttar 107312 color.

Book review: the elements of Graphic Design

Written by MAricon Williams


Graphic design is a very broad field and to master it is a very challenging escapade. We can have a good grasp of graphic design by understandingrepparttar basic elements and principles which make effective design and page layout.

Graphic design is a course of combining texts and graphics in order to develop an interactive work of art. Designers achieve their purpose by utilizingrepparttar 107300 elements and principles of graphic design. In today’s world, graphic design has a greater percentage of influencing us. Everywhere we go, anywhere we look, there are graphic design materials – from posters, signs, newsletters, billboards - practically everywhere.

I guess everybody longs to be a creator of a masterpiece. Sounds difficult, but actually it’s not. Even those who have no formal graphic design training can improve their page layout and text compositions through enhancing their concepts of design basics and modern desktop publishing. Though individual lessons can be taken, I strongly recommendrepparttar 107301 book Elements of Graphic Design authored by Alexander White.

Alexander White is an expert in graphic design. He has shapedrepparttar 107302 visual design of nineteen magazines and twenty identity programs. White was also a consultant to numerous publications, art directors and editors. He was formerly a teacher in design atrepparttar 107303 Hartford Art School ofrepparttar 107304 University of Hartford. He has taught there for about fifteen years. He has also lectured on typography and design to professionals in corporations and at conferences. He is currently residing in New York City.

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