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Monthly Archives: May 2000

From web to Web

It’s a tough time to be in the newspaper business these days, but not necessarily for the reasons you might expect. Despite the explosive growth of the Internet and the public’s growing penchant for getting its news online, printed newspapers are weathering the storm well — at least in terms of advertising. Ad revenue climbed […]

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Step-by-Step Image Salvage

Versions: 5, 5.5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Quite frequently you’ll be given less than stellar scanned images to work with, so it’s useful to know several enhancement strategies that will boost an image’s overall quality. In this article, we’ll take you through the general process we used to correct our original image, shown in Figure […]

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Color-Accurate Inkjets Made EZ

Color management systems such as Apple’s ColorSync and Microsoft’s ICM 2.0 are touted by their creators as easy, automatic tools for matching colors from your original, through your scanner, to your monitor, to your printer. In practice, they’ve proven to be complex and often unwieldy, but one thing is clear: color management lives or dies […]

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What Font Is This?

It’s a common problem: You open an old file and QuarkXPress reports that a font is missing. Or you need to make a small change on an existing letterhead but haven’t a clue what typeface was used for the original. Or your client is in love with the look of the ads for the latest […]

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Backup Against the Wall

About three years ago, in a moment of human triumph over technology, I unplugged a SCSI cable in the middle of copying an entire hard disk of information to another disk drive. The consequence of this action was, well, disastrous. The irony was that I was in the process of backing up my disk when […]

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For Stock Shooters, the Math’s Not Great

It’s graduation time. At least, it is at the School of Visual Arts, where I feel fortunate to teach Advanced Digital Photography. During the school year I try to devote at least one session to discussing the business issues seniors will face when and if they venture forth as commercial photographers. Stock photography usually figures […]

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