Snapshot image cleaningWritten by Maricon Williams
Time is precious and we don’t want it to slip away that easy without taking advantage of its significance. To circumvent waste of time, Snapshot can be a great help to us. Snapshot is a valuable technique to save our precious time when working with images in Photoshop – be it an original copy image, something from a digital camera or from a scanned slide or negative. This is usually used to clean up images such as images for publication use. The technique is so easy, it only involves a four-step method and is easy to recall. You can make use of this in many situations like adjusting levels, color, saturation, sharpness and other corrections without wasting time with layer masks, lasso tools, layers, rubber stamping or magic wand. To ensure that your eyes are fixed to your subject, you can use this method. Soft-eyes are scanning problems inherent of natural film curvature while scanning. To avoid soft-eyes problems, use snapshots technique which allows fixation in few seconds. To do this, first open your file. Then go to filter > sharpen > unsharp mask. After that, a dialog box will appear with unsharp mask defaults. Set default amount to 75 percent, radius to 1 pixel and threshold levels to zero or one. Finally, click OK. You may notice that entire image has unsharp mask applied to it beforehand. As a result, it sharpens overall image. The texture is no longer as soft as it first appeared. This is time when snapshots will save your artwork.
| | Making sure you are ready for Pre-pressWritten by Paul Hood
Nobody wants to be caught with his pants down. Aside from great inconvenience, you will be put in a very awkward position and you’ll have a tough time making a rebound. So how do you keep those pants on?A key factor in every successful undertaking is a sound plan. Making an outline of steps to be taken as well as preparing for contingencies if things go awry is very important. You can’t possibly play basketball without a ball, right? Without having planned game, you must have ASSUMED that someone have brought that ball. No plan has been made and no coordination took place and that is why we simply assumed and we know that assumptions are one big killer of success. Instead of hearing, “I thought…” it would have been very good to hear “I’m sure.” And just what on earth has this got to do with printing? Like everything else, a successful print venture benefits from good planning. Basic to your printing success is a good understanding of what it is that you want, what you need to get that goal and making a follow-through. An efficient starter would be making a preparation of all materials, know-how and
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