His darkroom techniques include dodging, burning, multiple filtration, flashing, bleaching, unsharp masking - anything it takes to make the image come alive.
Whether you are facing the arcane art of offset printing for the first time, a layout person trying to optimize the page without offending or a technology-driven person anxious to know absolutely everything about dot grain, there is no doubt Breede covers it, along with paper issues (including basis weight, M weight, ream weight, equivalent weights of paper, bulk determination, cubic area of skids or rolls), print calculations (such as total dot gain, density, opacity, printing cylinder calculations, color spaces and color calculations), prepress (including file size, scanning resolutions, unsharp masking and gray levels) and common conversions, including nonmetrics to metrics.
dPhoto also offers easy-to-use editing features such as cropping, scaling, optimizing contrast, adjusting saturation, balancing color, unsharp masking, eliminating redeye and blemishes, and adjusting gamma settings.
Techniques such as highlight/shadow, gamma, color contrast, saturation and hue, brightness, sharpness, unsharp masking and selective color correction can be defined and manipulated in either graphical or numerical formats.
4 optical density -- True 42-bit scanning (14 bits per channel) -- Direct to RGB, CMYK or CIE-LAB scanning -- Batch scanning -- CMYK Preview -- A preview of CMYK values before the image is scanned and separated -- Unsharp Masking Preview -- Allows users to preview unsharp masking filters before the final scan is performed -- Positive or negative scanning -- SilverFast 3.
