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What's new in Windows Vista? Everything! Be among the first to master the much-anticipated new Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. Bestselling author Alan Simpson has packed this ultimate resource with the comprehensive information you need to get the most out of this exciting new OS. From thorough coverage of the basics through advanced topics such as setting up security, building a home office network, and DVD authoring, this go-to reference is your perfect Vista resource.
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Somewhat, but not Totally Helpful.......2007-06-26
Borrowed this book for assistance in transferring and setting up 4,000+ photos from Windows XP into numerous folders. The directions by Simpson given did provide what appear to be the promised results - an invaluable contribution.
Next, I tried using the book to set up a screen-saver using my photos. The dialog box referenced in the book did not exist - no help at all.
Have since returned the book; I'm thinking 50% assistance is not that good.
Good for beginner and intermediate users.......2007-03-08
This is a good book to get started with Vista. If you are a beginner user or intermediate, this is the book for you. You will learn many things which saves you time. It is directed to 'use' Vista, to work with it in everyday life. It is well written, nice lay out. However, if you look for advanced tricks, undocumented features, hacker-type-of action and a real deep dive in understanding Vista, this book will not cover it. The advanced user will skip many pages because it is known stuff.
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This highly useful, detailed guide helps desktop-publishing and other design professionals produce the best possible scans and halftones from their images. The first section focuses on scanning, first featuring explanations of such terms as spi (samples per inch), bit depth, optical and interpolated resolution, and dynamic range. The authors even advise you on buying and cleaning scanners. Next they detail the elements of good scans and how to fix less-than-perfect ones, helping you figure out what sort of file formats and resolutions to use in your work, how to do tonal and color corrections, and how to sharpen and compress images. Finally, the discussion turns to Web and printer output and to OCR technology and PhotoCD images.
The section on halftones teaches you how to produce decent halftone images, first by explaining how halftones work and then by explaining such issues as frequency, gray levels, spot variation, spot gain, spot shapes, and the role of printers and software in creating halftones. There's also a discussion of stochastic screening and how to create blends and reduce moiré and other patterns. The last chapters here help you fine-tune your halftone settings and learn a bit about PostScript operators for halftones and scanning.
The third and last section focuses on using image applications to work with scans, tonal and color corrections, and halftones. This discussion includes Adobe Photoshop, Micrografx Picture Publisher, Corel Photo-Paint, Ulead PhotoImpact, Equilibrium's DeBabelizer, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand, CorelDRAW, Adobe PageMaker, and QuarkXPress. The authors also look at a few scanning applications and offer tips on using them.
Throughout the book the authors provide plenty of images and screen shots to illustrate their points, and a full-color section helps bring some of these examples to life. There's lots of technical discussion, but since each chapter builds on the previous ones and the basic terminology is put forth clearly, you can leave off wherever you wish and still have a lot of new knowledge to apply to your scans and halftones. --Kathleen Caster
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With the advent of desktop publishing came the democratization of graphic design. Which means that these days, with the right equipment, just about anyone can produce graphically sophisticated documents--or clumsy ill-conceived messes. To make sure you end up with the former, you need this comprehensive guide! Realizing that many of today's desktop publishers come to the task with no formal design or graphics training, authors
David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, Steve Roth, and Conrad Chavez, detail both the theory and practice of producing top-notch scans and halftones. Through tips, techniques, step-by-step instructions, and real-world examples, you'll learn how to scan, sharpen, and output your images as well as how to correct color and tone. Throughout, the emphasis is on not just how to perform a given task but why it makes sense to do so in a certain way. Filled with sure-fire techniques and practical discussions of today's software and hardware, when it comes to halftones and scans, this guide covers it all!
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Very Useful for Beginner.......2007-03-15
For someone like me, a novice in using the scanner, this was just right. I purchased a very high end scanner, and wanted to do more than just scan pictures, documents, etc. The hardware came with decent color management software, which was upgradable at no cost. I've used it more often and more efficiently for more projects as a result of this book. The areas that I din't like, didn't need, or didn't understand were just left for later investigation. It has, though, spurred me on to do a little research beyond what's in the book and in this way has assisted me in acquiring a bit more scanner skill.
Author notes: 3rd Edition Entirely Revised.......2004-06-07
As one of the authors of the third edition of the book (2004), let me tell you that the third edition (2004) has been entirely revised, redesigned, and overhauled. Keep that in mind as you read reviews below of the 2nd (1998) and 1st editions (1993).
In the latest edition, we've restructured the book around the scanning and digitzing workflow: starting with scanners and digital cameras; moving through correction; then into output onto ink jet, film, screen, and (extensively) offset press as halftones.
Our Web site at www dot rwsh dot com contains a downloadable chapter and other information about the book, or you can use Amazon.com's Inside the Book feature to read pages here.
I'd call this a "Try it.".......2002-12-03
Frequently, I find that I have to buy books that are overly technical for my purposes in order to get all the info I want. This book suits me, (though it may not suit the needs of a graphics profession). There are no buyer's guides to specific models of scanners here. However, there is a lot of detail about how scanners, scanning software and graphics programs work. The authors provide such arcana as the formula for determining what size a scanned image will be (depending on the options you pick) and goodies like this. There is info on file formats, compression, how to choose resolution and what influences the outcome of scans and how to correct the result. There is also a lot of information most applicable to professional print work, for which I have no particular use, except that info of this type helps to fill out my picture of how digital imaging works. If you want suggestions for scanning projects to do with your kids, look elsewhere, but if you're interested in the theory of scanners I would recommend this book. I'll also mention that, in my view, the writing is clear and well-organized and if I occasionally must pause to consider it's only because the material requires a little thought. This is not rocket science, but neither is it Sponge Bob and the authors treat it accordingly.
Great title..........2001-02-05
I've learned some thngs from this book, however like one other reviewer stated, just when you thought it was going to get to the good stuff, some stupid flip remark would be made and the chapter or discussiong would end. Very difficult reading. Too much about prepress. Not enough about photoshop, scanning and color management. Reads like childish manerishums. Author's have very immature writing styles.
Too basic, no meat.......2000-10-13
I bought the book sight unseen based on the glowing reviews here.
I wanted to get specific, detailed insight to which scanners worked well, and how to get great and consistant color out of them.
I got none of that. There was no detailed instruction on how to make and use color profiles with scanners.
They talk "about" scanning quite a lot, but give no hard specifics. Often the advice is that "more expensive scanners work better." That's something that I didn't need the book to tell me.
It does cover a great deal of basics for first-timer users, but little for people who already know how to pump pixels.
Every time I thougt it might get into some of the details I wanted, the chapter ended.
It is written too casually for me. It appears to be written by a few guys who have been around publishing. It reads like a collection of casual "shop talk," more than hard info. The authors occasionally get in over their heads technically and make some mistakes trying to explain things that they admit they don't understand, like how JPEG compression works.
I returned my copy, a great thing about Amazon. I got nothing out of it. One cool trick they suggested for Photoshop didn't even work. (c) 2000 kenrockwell.com
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The human eye can perceive about 5,000 shades of gray, points out Avoiding the Scanning Blues: A Complete Guide to Desktop Scanning. By the time a real-life scene has been photographed, printed on photographic paper, and scanned, it has been reduced to 250 shades of gray, at best. Laser printing usually reduces the palette further, to 125 shades. The challenge of the professional graphic artist is to use the scanner properly to minimize the effect of this technical limitation. With an emphasis on that goal, this book explains techniques for professional scanner use. It treats scanners as the powerful tools that they are, and not merely toys for attaching photographs in e-mail messages. This book is one of very few that take scanner work seriously, and it's definitely worth buying if you're a professional or avid amateur scanner of images.
Most chapters begin with clear explanations of concepts; the logic being that you can't get far as a manipulator of images if you don't know what terms mean, or what effects various pieces of the imaging chain have on the end product. The style is concise and readable (although, for clarity, mathematical equations should have been set out from the body text), and illustrations ("good" and "bad" sample photos, plus screen shots) enhance the text. Easy-to-follow how-to passages appear throughout, most of which have to do with aspects of Adobe Photoshop. The book challenges you to scan practice images that have problematic visual characteristics and fix some intentionally bad originals. --David Wall
Topics covered: Scanning for professionals, with an emphasis on getting the highest possible printed product from the originals at hand; in-depth coverage of evaluating an image to be scanned, performing the scanning process, and performing filtering and other manipulations on newly digitized images; also, the specifics of transparency and negative scanning, as well as of digital image theory.
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Symbolically speaking..........2004-10-05
This book is very short, and a little bit more valuable than its companion book, "Less Than"
Avoiding the Scanning Blues.......2003-03-18
I was very pleased with the condition and the promtness of receiving this book. I highly recommend this seller.
A useful reference for desktop publishers.......2001-04-27
"Avoiding the Scanning Blues" explains how to scan images in such a way that they can be successfully reproduced by a commercial printer. That's fine if your only interest is commercial printing, but it's of limited value if you want to produce photo-quality prints from an inkjet or Fujix printer.
Also note that Mr. Tally assumes you'll be using a flatbed scanner. He makes no mention at all of film scanners or of scanning film. Granted, most of the rules that apply to flatbed scanning apply to film scanning as well, but the least he could have done was to say so.
To his credit, he provides a great deal of valuable information, most of it neatly summarized at the end of every chapter. Unfortunately, the page layout is cluttered with examples and illustrations that compete with, rather than complement, the text. If you have any familiarity with scanning at all, you may find yourself reading the summaries first and resorting to the main text only for clarification.
If your only interest is producing scans for desktop publishing, this book is still a good investment. If not, you may find it misses the mark.
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'To interlace or not to interlace' is a hot issue currently. Traditionally interlace has been part of the video standard as it reduces the transmission and display demands, while hardly affecting the perceived quality of the pictures.
With the current explosion of new video formats due to emerging technologies as multimedia PC's, videotelephony and flat matrix display the question whether or not interlace is a relict from the past is more relevant than ever.
This book provides a broad overview of advanced motion estimation and de-interlacing techniques to enable a profound scientific basis for answering the above question. An extensive evaluation of the algorithms, including many screen photographs is an imt part of the book. But also system questions, such as whether interlace is a good choice in combination with modern video compression methods (MPEG), and which currently would be the optional choice for a display format are extensively treated.
The combination of scientific profoundness and completions, with the focus on practical hot issues, makes the book unique in its kind.
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Very good and unique book on de-interlacing techniques.......2006-02-09
The intended audience for this book are research and development professionals in image processing. This is not a book for video hobbyists, but instead you should at least be at the advanced undergraduate level in electrical engineering or computer science to fully grasp the concepts presented. The book's goal is to show a survey of well-known deinterlacing algorithms and then go into details of how you can improve upon these algorithms. The book is divided into three major parts: basic technology, system optimization, and the future of interlace, and contains the following chapters:
1. Introduction
2. Overview of de-interlacing algorithms
3. Motion estimation on interlaced video
4. Improving motion-vector accuracy
5. On the optimization of de-interlacing
6. MPEG-2 coding efficiency of interlaced versus progressive video
7. Display formats
Chapter 2 appears to be an expansion of a paper that the authors wrote entitled "De-interlacing an overview". When I first read that paper I found it to be the clearest I had ever read on the subject, yet their book manages to improve it further. The emphasis is on the authors' own algorithm -adaptive recursive deinterlacing.
Likewise, chapter 3 is an expansion of the authors' paper "Motion estimation on interlaced video". The authors examine and compare the performance of block matching algorithms, true motion estimation, global-based models, and object-based motion models.
Chapter 4 examines accuracy of motion vectors, improving block-based motion estimation, and using interpolation to improve accuracy.
Chapter 5 examines the optimization of interlacing and introduces the Majority-Selection de-interlacer, which combines the strengths of several individual de-interlacing algorithms into a single output signal. This material is from the authors' paper "Majority selection de-interlacing; An advanced motion-compensated spatio-temporal interpolation technique for interlaced video".
Chapter 6 looks at the MPEG-2 video coding standard and discusses the efficiency of interlaced versus progressive video on an MPEG-2 digital channel. This chapter draws heavily from the authors' paper "On Coding Efficiency and Scan-Rate Conversion".
Chapter 7 borrows heavily from the authors' paper "Towards an Optimal Display Television Format". In this chapter the authors explore a new display format free from television history. From their various experiments the authors form an overall preference for a 75 Hz interlaced scanning format.
The appendices deal with the TGST de-interlacer, and is largely drawn from the authors' paper "Advanced Motion Estimation and Motion Compensated Deinterlacing" in which they combine two well-known algorithms.
I found the book very enlightening. The authors do a good job of tying the various papers from which this book was formed into a cohesive format. Although there is a heavy and necessary use of mathematics, their writing style is very accessible and clear. If you are not sure you want to spend so much money on one book, you might try downloading off the web the papers I mentioned in this review. It will give you a good idea of the book's content and let you know if you like the authors' writing style. Personally, I highly recommend this book.
Good De-Interlacing Information.......2005-03-09
This book has a lot of good information on de-interlacing, motion estimation, and interlace versus progressive display. One chapter contains a particularly nicely done survey and objective evaluation of 16 de-interlacing algorithms. A few of the algorithms listed (including one covered in detail later in the book) were developped by the authors. There are also discussions of the history & future of interlacing, the impact of interlaced and progressive video on MPEG-2 encoding, and the impact of interlace on displays.
My only problem is that the authors don't mention where to find software or hardware implementations of the recommended de-interlacing algorithms. This information would have been a valuable addition to the book.
Excellent Book for de-interlacing.......2002-04-20
This is a great book that you must have if you are interested in post video processing. or research in digital video processing. It describes the both approaches from non-motion compensation and motion compensation deinterlacing in depth and details. There are a lot of comparisons with other algorithms. The best part yet is the 3-D recursive search block matcher which checks the neighboring blocks in quarter pel resolution for 3 fields and the majority selection for different de-interlacing algorithms. If you have some algorithms for de-interlacing, you can apply the concept for majority selection in terms of performance and quality selection. The research on de-interlacing work is from Philips Research lab. Some works of de-interlacing have been implementated on Trimedia chip with enhancements in both hardware and software
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Learn how the computer gathers information through the scanning process for use on the desktop. This book explores the principles of line, grayscale and color scanning for application within documents. Topics such as image manipulation, file formats, and data compression are discussed in offering the tools necessary to successfully utilize the scanning process.
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A thorough well presented mountain of facts & explaination.......1998-05-27
Great for anyone who wants a "hands-on" guide to the mechanics of scanning & printing. Lots of comparison charts to show different techniques, loads of explination of those hard to grasp subjects. Brilliant worked tables. Well worth the money! :O)
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