Jim Rich
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About the Author
Jim Rich is a well known imaging expert with over 25 years experience using black and white and color pre-press applications. He is
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President of Rich & Associates, LLC, a Washington DC area consulting and training firm that specializes in publishing and industry pre-press and computer training programs. His other responsibilities include supplying technical support for publishing applications to clients. Jim has been involved with equipment acquisition and installation of traditional pre-press and PostScript imaging equipment since 1983. He has traveled to scores of color trade shops, service bureaus, printing firms, and newspapers. He works with and teaches all levels of end-users including web and print designers, photographers, and pre-press personnel. His skills include installing and calibrating color scanning and pagination equipment, trouble-shooting technical problems and teaching, computer basics, black and white and color scanning, color management, font management, systems integration, pre-flighting methods for page finishing, and electronic page assembly techniques.
Jim Rich and Sandy Bozek co-authored the book, "Photoshop in Black and White" in 1993.
Jim holds a Masters degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Printing Technology.
Product Description
The Photoshop Grayscale Book provides vital information about: recovery strategies, how to reproduce grayscale images, retouching techniques, scanning and calibration methods, Photoshop automation, and day-to-day production strategies for versions 5.0.2 and 5.5. Practical for any business, educational institution or student involved with imaging. This book combines essential Photoshop details with illustrated step-by-step techniques and At-A-Glance instructions that makes each reader successful with Photoshop. This one-of-a-kind Photoshop resource distills critical image reproduction and retouching methods into an easy-to-understand format so that beginner through advanced readers can easily create high quality images. Previously, parts of this book were published as Photoshop in Black and White. Since then, over ninety pages have been added to that material.
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