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DITHERING : HALFTONES SCREENS & LINE ART : HALFTONING, RESOLUTION AND PREPRESS
VISIT PREPARING FILES FOR PRINT / PREPRESS
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VISIT GRAPHIC DESIGN 101
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A Six-Color Cure For Screen-Printed Halftones, Part 1 - Theory and explanation of six-color printing process, graphics printing
Digital Halftoning - This site was first posted to advertise the halftoning research that I was doing while part of the University of Delaware's Department of Electrical Engineering. Now that I am at the University of Kentucky, we can all look forward to my long and succesful career in halftoning and printing research...
Dithering - Full-color photographs may contain an almost infinite range of color values. Dithering is the most common means of reducing the color range of images down to the 256 (or fewer) colors seen in 8-bit GIF images.
Drawing with Photoshop Halftones - This image that will be used for the cover of a bimonthly newsletter going to orthodontist, was done by converting sections of grayscale tones into line halftones.
Halftones - The basics of color and black & white halftones. Halftone images contain a series of dots in a specific pattern that simulate the look of a continuous tone image. Because printers cannot print continuous tones — whether it's the many shades of gray in a grayscale image or the millions of colors in a color photograph — you must convert these images to halftones. Another term for halftoning is dithering.
Halftone Screens - Learn about Halftones. The term Halftone Screen refers to the pattern of dots of varying sizes applied to an image of varying tones, or same sized dots applied to a tint of colour, when output to - film for the printing processes - or laser printed artwork etc..
Halftones - White Paper, Black Ink
Halftoning - To many people a printed image is indistinguishable from its photographic counterpart. That so many can be fooled is a testimony to the sophistication of modern printing technology. While a full range of tonal values can be used to generate a photographic print, printers don't have that luxury. There is no gray ink. Ink dots must be arranged and printed so that the illusion of a continuous tone is presented to the viewer.
Halftoning - The Secret Print Ingredient - Tom Arah looks at the crucial role of halftone screening in successful print.
Halftones and Resolution Basics - What Is "Resolution" and How Do I Use It?
Halftones and Line Screens - In offset lithography, the density of CMYK inks can not be varied in continuous fashion across an image, so a range is produced by means of halftoning. In halftoning, tiny translucent CMYK ink dots of variable sizes are printed in overlapping grids. As the dots get smaller, so does the shade of color that is reproduced. Grids are placed at different angles for each of the ink colors. Smaller halftone dots absorb less light; thus, as a result of an increase in the amount of reflected light, apparent density is decreased and the object appears lighter.
Linescreens - The frequency of the halftone dots - their density within a given area - is an important number. In the United States, we measure halftone screens in "lines per inch" or lpi. If the "linescreen" [a.k.a. "screen frequency"] is 100 lpi, then each square inch of a given color will contain 100x100=1,000 halftone dots. Different printing techniques and conditions require different halftone screens (note: these numbers are typical, not hard and fast)
Line Screens for Halftones, Tints and 4/Color Separations - List of Maximum Line Screens as determined by press and paper
More On Halftones: Process Color Halftones And Line Art - How does the printer or imagesetter create a halftone from a color or grayscale image?
Printing Halftones - Printing Halftones and LPI (Lines per Inch)
Scanning Line Art - Three Modes of Scanning Line Art. There are 3 modes of scanning line art: b/w or line art mode (1 bit), grayscale, halftone
Which Style Line Screen Should I Use? - Halftone photography uses a halftone screen or electronic dot generation. The original halftone screen consisted of inked lines on two sheets of optically flat glass cemented together at right angles. The lines were the same width as the spaces.
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This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.
Best Clever & Unique Billboards and Outdoor Advertising I have found tons of the coolest billboards, outdoor advertising, and transit ads ever. I am listing many of them today but I have found many others (and I am still searching for more) that I will list soon. I am listing them in a gallery [...]
This is part II of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do.
Within this article, I am going to detail the ?six steps? that I took to design the logo for the ?Seventh Congress of Zoos and Aquariums?
I saw some really beautiful logos today so I thought that I would share some with you and then make a series out the idea. This is part I of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do. Either way, enjoy the following list of beautiful / cool logo designs.
This is the 4th part of our Coolest Business Card series. This time, we are including the printer (when we can find out the information) who printed these business cards.
This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.
The Graphic Design industry is very competitive, and trust me, it can certainly get stressful and frustrating at times. However, it doesn?t always have to be that way. Here, I have broken down my design process. This is how I create my design layouts from start to finish. Basically, with some focus, structure, and a little bit of talent, creating rewarding and professional design work can be produced more efficiently and with less stress.
As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It?s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn?t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.
Graphic Design and Typography are deeply connected. For that reason, I figure that most of you are going to love these free online font and type tools. Most, if not all, of these are very useful and I recommend that you use them when you have a chance. Below you will find the huge list of free browser-based font and type tools.
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6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
Mar 6Hot in Graphic Design - Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer
Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Some Online Printing Services I?ve Used
Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Logo Design Trends for 2008
Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
Feb 27Hot in Graphic Design - Which Mac Should You Buy if You are a Graphic Designer?
Which Mac Should You Buy if You are a Graphic Designer? As a graphic designer, you might be in need of a new computer these days. If so, and you are interested in buying a Mac, which Mac should you buy? This is a question that is consistently posted on every design form across the net. [...]
Website Design for Online Bridal Guide
I prefer to work with designers located: houston texas Number of pages (approx): about 10-15 My Industry: commercial wedding Will need graphics, content management, and members areas with forums.? Client is in Freno, TX
Website Redesign: Fencing Lessons
Number of pages (approx):10 We will provide the grpahics that we for the site. It already has a user login area for signing up for lessons that works. I want to add in e-commerce to pay for lessons a? Client is in Hauppauge, NY
Web Design: Financial Consultants
Comments: we are UAE based company need to dynamic website. send me the proposed cost and time line. Web pages5-10 Industry = Financial consultants/trading ? Client is in .,
Website Redesign: Audio and Video Produc
I prefer to work with designers located: Chicago/Minneapolis/Milwaukee 1 Logo 20 -25 page website Website needs new graphics and flash.? Client is in La Crosse, WI
Front End Web Design for Consumer Produc
Number of pages (approx):10-15pgs My Industry:Manufacture for consumer product/presentation tools We need the front end designed for our site for about 10-15 pages. Possibly some flash elements like? Client is in Irvine, CA
Line Cards and Signage Design
I need a line card that displays the image we are looking for, products we are selling and signage for the business and a truck. I am also looking for advertizing on promo items (shirts and hats). I w? Client is in San Jose, CA
Web Design for Startup IT Company
Design Type: Informational for Startup IT Company 20 pgs Flash Intro, Flash Banner, rest all static pages, except for Feedback form No functionality.? Client is in ,
Web Design: Children's Author
I am an author who needs a 1-3 page website that will link to my publishers, booking agents, and possibly book wholesellers. Possibly a flash sideshow for the books. Minimal graphics. ? Client is in Pittsburgh, PA
Web Design for Hosting Company
Number of pages (approx): 10 pages My Industry: web hosting Would like graphics created if possible within budget. No functionality. inmotionhosting.com, iweb.com, hostatree.com. - i want the feel a? Client is in Trichirappalli,