The Digital Imaging Workbook Introduction

The Digital Imaging Workbook

– Introduction

What this book is about.

This book is about solving what I call color management confusion.
We suffer from color management confusion when the picture we print does not look like the picture on our computer monitor.
This confusion comes from the marketing hype used to sell digital imaging products such as scanners, digital cameras, printers and software applications.
The marketing hype promises fantastic results with the ease of pushing a button.
The truth is that from taking a picture to printing that picture there are a few more buttons to push and if you don’t push them in the correct order the result is usually less than promised and very frustrating.

As the saying goes, the devil is in the details.

This workbook is designed for both film-based photographers and those who have already switched to digital equipment. The digital imaging process described in this workbook narrowly focuses on creating the Fine Art Ink Jet Print from scanning a 35mm film original on the Nikon Coolscan 4000ED transparency scanner or using a Digital Camera image through editing that image in Adobe® Photoshop® and finally printing it on the Epson 2200 Ink Jet Printer which uses the UltraChrome pigment based ink set. Color pigment inks are capable of lasting
fifty to eighty years before noticeable fade. That said, the methods described in this workbook work well with the various printers on the market that employ dye based ink sets. Several techniques in using Adobe® Photoshop® will be discussed and demonstrated for easily creating top quality prints.
The skills you will learn in this Digital Imaging Workbook translate well to graphics needs you might find in your business or work environment.
I include digital cameras because they are useful and here to stay; however don’t abandon you film camera just yet.
The marriage of film and digital in my opinion is having your cake and eating it too.
This means that we can print and proudly hang a durable quality picture of our family and vacation pictures on our home and office walls along side a Rembrandt or a Picasso should we be fortunate to own one.
You may think I exaggerate; but come along for the ride and I will show you how to accomplish this.

Using this Workbook

Each self contained segment of the digital imaging process presented in this workbook is outlined step by step.

Just follow the numbered boxes: