That come-dither look

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Adobe Photoshop can be used to enhance the appearance of laser-printed photos by converting the gray-scale image into a bit-map image. The user first creates a gray-scale image of a photograph, with a resolution between 300 dpi and 600 dpi, making sure that the image is resized and rotated to appear exactly as in the final layout. The user then experiments with lightening the image by using the Adjust and Curves command until the final printed image compares favorably with the original image. The next step is sharpening the image using the Sharpen and Unsharp Mask from the Filter menu, experimenting with the Amount setting from a starting value of 200%. The final step is bit-map conversion, which is done by choosing Bitmap from the Mode menu, entering resolution in the output box and clicking the Diffusion Dither button. Resolution value is determined by the resolution of the laser printer and how the image will be finally printed. Mac and Windows plug-ins to automate the above steps are available.

Prepackaged software, Usage, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Adobe Systems Inc., ADBE, Product tutorial, Image processing, Image processing software, Tutorial, Adobe Photoshop (Image processing software)

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Ultimatte Knockout 1.0/Extensis Mask Pro 2.0

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Ultimatte's $495 KnockOut and Extensis' $299.95 Mask Pro 2.0 both offer impressive masking power receiving "highly recommended" and "must buy" ratings, respectively. KnockOut offers results that would otherwise be unattainable; it is a fine-tuned package able to produce a semitransparent mask well suited for photo compositing. Minor limitations include its security dongle requirement, 4,000-pixel limitation, high memory requirements and its stripping of a photo's International Color Consortium profile. Unlike KnockOut, Mask Pro 2.0 has no transparent masks, but it is otherwise without a major flaw. New to Mask Pro is the Magic Brush's IntellBrush mode, the Magic Pen tool, and Selection and Composite modes.

Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Graphics software, Graphics/imaging utility, Graphics utilities, Software multiproduct review, Extensis Products Group, Ultimatte Corp., Ultimatte KnockOut (Graphics/imaging utility), Extensis Mask Pro 2.0 (Graphics/imaging utility)

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