Automated Image Processing to Improve Workflow Efficiency

Presenter: James Lockman
Date: Thursday - March 18, 2010
Description: The key to any good workflow is a repeatable process, and repeatable processes lend themselves to automation. Many printers and design shops face image quality challenges that take skill and time to resolve. Customers are purchasing stock art, using digital cameras, or scanning artwork themselves resulting in a mishmash of competing file formats, compression schemes, and color spaces that make it difficult to know or understand the customer’s expectations. In this program, we will investigate different methods for adjusting images in customer files fit into your workflow. 

Desktop applications such as Adobe Bridge, Acrobat and Photoshop feature powerful image adjustment tools that can be scripted. In those environments, though, decisions about the graphics themselves must be made by an operator.

Tools like Markzware’s Flight Check can help find trouble graphics, and automated systems such as Enfocus Pitstop Pro, Alwan CMYK Optimizer and Elpical Claro Premedia can both identify and adjust images. In addition, many print production systems such as those from EFI Fiery and Creo Kodak contain sophisticated adjustment tools that often get ignored.

Specific topics will include:

• Key indicators of poor image quality.
• Best practices for image correction.
• Knowing when to call the customer.
• Capturing image correction steps in Photoshop, Acrobat and PitStop
• Implementing an operator-driven image correction workflow.
• Automated image correction options.
• Implementing an automated image correction workflow.
• Using your RIP for color adjustment.

Presenter: James Lockman

Owner of James Lockman Consulting, our preesnter is an Adobe Certified Creative Suite Master and Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Consultant. With customers ranging from large agencies to small boutique newspapers, his expertise in Acrobat and web-based collaboration make them more agile in today’s electronic document workflows. He is a frequent presenter at industry events and online, and is the host of Total Training for Acrobat 9 Essentials and InDesign CS4 Essentials from  totaltraining.com

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