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color scanning practice

Imaging Technologies

Color Scanning Practice

Use color prints to……

1. Scan for a website

2. Scan for a four color press using an lpi of 150

3. Scan for a digital portfolio or scrapbook

4. Scan for an InDesign page layout with picture boxes that are 3.5 inches wide and 4 inches wide

I would refer to the Scanning Worksheet, and/or pay attention to each of the following:

Scanning formula

Scanning mode

Original size

Target size

Scaling percentage

File format when saving

printing PDF's

To print out a PDF file, such as Learn these Computer Icons in Contents, Week One, under 2_Operating Systems.

Click on and open the file.

When the file opens you should see four gray icons near the bottom. They will quickly disappear, but if you drag your cursor down they will reappear. You will see a minus (zoom out) sign, a plus (zoom in) sign, and two others. One of the two others should help. With the one on the far right, you can download the file as a PDF and print it, or you can use the other to open the PDF in Preview and print. Just hold

your cursor over the icons and you will see a message explaining what they do.

Using the Nikon film scanner

Using the Nikon Film Scanner

1. Download the manual and save it as a PDF

http://www.nikonusa.com/pdf/manuals/noprint/LS5000_50_en_noprint.pdf

2. Go to pages 24-34

On page 35, This should be all set for you.

3. Then, pages 36-38.

4. Pages 40-46 has detailed information on the Scan Window, ICE, ROC, and GEM.

ICE, ROC and GEM need to be done in Preview.

ICE for scratches and dust

ICE normal may be sufficient. ICE fine may soften the image.

ICE does not work with conventional black and white film, but would work with chromogenic black and white. Not recommended for Kodachrome, since Kodachrome was not E6 slide processed.

ROC for restoring faded colors.

View in preview. It is powerful and may look unnatural.

GEM for grain.

Preview levels. Start at level 2?

ICE may need to be turned off.

lonnie

You have an exciting new client, Lonnie Lipchitz. OK, that’s not his real name. His real name is Lawrence Lipchitz, but his manager thought Lonnie had a little more “pizzaz.”

Lonnie is a retired cosmetic surgeon who made a small fortune as the first liposuction practitioner in Beverly Hills. He has decided he wants to be a successful recording artist and he wants your help. 

For openers, Lonnie wants you to design and produce the "full-color" artwork for his new CD, titled “Lonnie Lipchitz, Love Machine.” He’ll need three million CD inserts. Lonnie also needs posters for in-store promotions and give-aways. Plus, he wants postcards to send to his fans and promoters. 

Lonnie wants a logo developed from the art on his photo. He wants his logo color to have the same "passion as Coca-Cola red, but with a little pinkish tone for the love factor". You will need to get approval from Lonnie when you come up with this color.  

Your assignment, should you chose to accept it:

1. Develop your ideas and present them.

2. Explain how the pieces are going to be printed. Offset lithography, ink jet, laser? 

3. What about the sizes of the printed materials? What material will they be printed on? Are these factors important? If so, why?

4. Suggest at least two other services or products you could provide.  Briefly, how would you create them? Consider software, file formats, color models and modes, and fonts. 

But first, here are some questions for you.

The photo you have been given to work with is from a black and white magazine ad. What is wrong with Lonnie's photo?

Can you fix it? How?

How will you convert Lonnie's photo to color?

What color mode or model will you use if the photo is going to printed in four colors?

What color mode or model will you use if the photo is going to be displayed on his website? 

How will you recreate Lonnie's logo and match the  color throughout  your workflow?

What type of  software and graphic would be preferred for the logo you are recreating?

What scanning formula and image mode will you use to scan his photo for the CD insert?

What file format will you save it in?

A CD insert is 5" x 5". Will this influence your scan? How?

For and ad in "Rolling Stone" magazine, what would your scanning formula and image mode be? How can you be sure about this?

What scanning formula and image mode will you use to scan his photo for the web?

What file format will you save it in?

How will you send Lonnie your artwork for approval? What is one extra procedure you could utilize to be sure the file does not get "corrupted"?

Lonnie is really upset. His color he wanted for his logo is not what he sees on his computer or his cell phone. How do you explain this to him? How do you reassure him the color will be correct when it is reproduced?

Lonnie sent you some (he claims) "really cool" type and layout ideas as digital files, attachments and links. There are some typefaces you've never seen, much less are able to identify. There are some graphics that are really jaggie and unusable, even if they did not infringe copyright. He also sent you one file with a .wps extension. List some of the problems you might encounter with what he has sent, and how you could attempt to solve them. 

 

Adding Glyph to Character Palettes Favorites

Adding a glyph to Favorites in Character Palette.

Read steps and refer to the graphic below.

Text Edit>Format>Fonts>Show Fonts.

Select a font name, typeface, and point size.

In the bottom left hand corner, to the right of the minus sign, click on the Font Pane Actions icon (it looks like a spoked wheel with a downward facing triangle next to it).

Go to Characters…..

When the Characters window opens, be sure View: Glyph and the Glyph Catalog button is highlighted.

Click on one of the glyphs.

Go to the Font Pane Actions icon and select Add to Favorites.

Then click on the Favorites button, just to the right of the Glyph Catalog button the see if the glyph is saved.

To use what you have saved, go back to Text Edit

Go to Favorites>Font Pane Actions>Characters>Glyph and you can insert by clicking on Insert with Font in lower right hand corner.

offset printing plate

digital imaging overview

free photos_public domain

http://www.pdphoto.org/index.php

scanning worksheet

Scanning worksheet

ID or title:

What are you scanning?

Continuous tone photo or artwork

Transparency

Line art

Other:

Why are you scanning?

On screen (web or monitor display)

Printing press

Continuous tone

Line art

Photos on a digital press

Other:

Size of original you are scanning. (This could be the cropped area)

Size you want the finished scan to be?

Scanning formula

Final file format(s)

Notes:

Emerging Technologies

Written portion submitted in Dropbox by June 30. Be sure you discuss the content and questions in the assignment. If there is something you cannot answer, explain why.

Presentation dates and topics:

Betty_Color changing

Brenda_3D printers in Education

Elliot_Hand held registers with an emphasis on the retake aspect of it

Jeff_Solid state batteries, as found in Technology Review's 2011 Top Ten Emerging Technologies news column.

Marena_storage devices or hydrogen automobiles

Kelsie_1. Using shale to make oil 2. Watering plants in the desert 3. Cars made out of lighter more eco friendly stuff (such as hemp) or 4. aps taking over software you buy at the store

June 30 Roger_Near Field Communications

Sydnei_Later this year, the startup Sifteo , based in San Francisco, will bring to market handheld, computerized cubes that can sense each other and run a variety of interactive programs.

Trevor_Touch Screen Table Tops

Katherine_The Invisible iPhone

Taheerah

Micheline_a camera that is about to come out that will allow you to focus after the picture has been taken.

Johnny

McNeely Piggott & Fox Public Relations

McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations
http://www.mpf.com/

Most computers are PC. The head designer uses PC.

Everyone – the entire staff, not just the art department – is learning Final Cut Pro.

A Mac is used or this.

Backups on a server and DVD's.

75% of design work is print. Remainder is web and multi media.

The impact of technology..........

55 + demographic gets national and local news from newspapers and TV.

25-35 demo gets this from Internet (national) and Facebook (local)

They are curious about the future and the impact of technology. A need is how to tap into younger demographic that uses texting for information.

Excellent writing is demanded.

Meetings once per week to assess goals. Year long goals set by partners once a year. Length of meetings based on Dell Computer model - 1 hour max.

Teams work on projects. Teams meet once a week.

Task log.

vocabulary simplified

Computer — comprised of:

a. hardware- it’s hard. You can drop it, break it, bump into it.

b. software- it’s invisible. It’s the programming code written on disks. You buy software like applications, fonts, games. It comes on a disk or you download from another computer to yours, like over the internet.

Operating system

Runs all the basic computer functions, like an engine in a car. You can have a car, but if you don’t have an engine it won’t go anywhere.

Drivers

Software that allows computer work with peripheral hardware, like printers and scanners. Must be installed, usually.

Applications

Programs that let you make stuff on the computer, like word processing, page layout, digital imaging.

Plug-ins

Small programs designed to enhance existing software with additional functions. They may cause problems when you go from one computer to another because you won't have the plug in on the other computer.

They may be called extensions.

CPU

Central processing unit. The chip that runs the show.

Also called a microprocessor.

Data bus

a combination of software, hardware, and electrical wiring that creates a way for all the different parts of your computer to communicate with each other. All the cables and wires connect to the bus.

Hard disk

Hardware pieces that hold data. Sort of like a filing cabinet.

RAM

Random access memory.

The word memory generally refers to RAM, which is temporary, volatile, storage space, as opposed to permanent storage space.

You might think of your computer’s hard disk as a filing cabinet, with each gigabyte or megabyte of space representing one drawer. The computer takes things out of the hard disk and places them on its desk, but its desk is called random access memory or RAM. So when you open an application like a word processing application, the computer gets a copy of that application out and puts the copy into memory, or places it on the desk. Sort of like putting a typewriter on the desk.

So you crash if too much stuff is on the desk.

Whatever you did in RAM goes away, if not saved, when you turn off the computer.

ROM

Read only memory.

System information that is built into the ROM chips inside the computer. This is information that gets the system up and running.

How is screen size measured?

a. diagonally in inches

b. number of pixels, width by height

Text file formats:

1. Open, meaning they can move between Mac & PC and software.

ASCII and RTF are examples of “open format”

2. Program-specific, such as Microsoft Word.

Program specific formats lose formatting when you transfer to a Mac.

ASCII may not have all the information necessary, especially missing may be numbers and special characters.

RTF is probably the best choice. Keeps typographic information.

Text Edit review

Default Format at NSCC is probably Make Plain Text

Format>Make Rich Text

COM T or Format>Font>Show Fonts and Format>Text

Format>Wrap to Page

File>Save As>Rich Text Format or others

Virtual Keyboard & Character Viewer in Macs

Virtual Keyboard & Character Viewer

Go to System Preferences>International>Input Menu.
Check Keyboard Viewer and Character  Palette.

Check Show input menu in menu bar at the bottom of the window.

The icon will appear in upper right hand section of the menu bar. Usually next to the Volume icon.

You can show the keyboard with Show Keyboard Viewer

You can show the characters with Show Character Viewer. At the Character Viewer, you can select a character, and then click on insert to place it in you document.

Change the size and attributes of a character the same as a font.

lonnie

You have an exciting new client, Lonnie Lipschitz. OK, that’s not his real name. His real name is Lawrence Lipschitz, but his manager thought Lonnie had a little more “pizzaz.”

Lonnie is a retired cosmetic surgeon who made a small fortune as the first liposuction practitioner in Beverly Hills. Although he was eliminated during the first round of American Idol auditions, he is determined to be a successful recording artist and he wants your help.

For openers, Lonnie wants you to design and produce the artwork for his new CD, titled “Lonnie Lipschitz, Love Machine.” He’ll need three million CD inserts. Lonnie also needs posters for in-store promotions and give-aways. Plus, he wants postcards to send to his fans and promoters.

Your assignment, should you chose to accept it:

1. Create some ideas and sketches for the CD inserts, posters and postcards.

2. Suggest additional marketing tools that Lonnie needs and you can design an create.

But first, here are some things to think about:

1. How will the printing be done? What will the printing processes be? Resolution?

2. How will you get Lonnie's photo on to the CD cover. Scanning formulas? File formats?

3. What software will you use for what you are designing?

4. How can you be sure that Lonnie's logo colors are always correct, no matter how the images are displayed?

5. How will you create the additional marketing tools? What are the correct file formats, resolutions and technical specifications for all these other marketing tools?

I hope you have suggested a new photo. How will that happen?