A start-to-finish guide to creating the best scans and halftoned output from the desktopReal World Scanning and Halftones, Second Edition is a start-to-finish guide to creating the best scans and halftoned output from the desktop. Using non-technical language, the updated edition of this best-selling book explains the best ways to get an image from the "real world" through a scanner into image-editing software for correction and finally out to print or on the Web.-- Learn to make scans the right way the first time, for output in print and on the Web-- An indispensable blend of theory and practical, hands-on advice that users will turn to again and again-- Over 40,000 copies sold (first edition) since first published in 1993-- Up-to-date coverage of working with the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, and DeBabelizer