Labels:text | cartoon | screenshot OCR: Most professional scanning programs, such as LinoColor, have additional controls to determine the intensity of the contrast on both the light and the dark sides. Why PhotoDisc images are not pre-sharpened · Images differ greatly and the intent of your design is something we never want to compromise or second-guess. A "generic" level of sharpening limits your creativity; as we mentioned earlier, sharpening is subjective: every image and every designer's eye requires a different amount. Printing environments and intent can vary widely. If PhotoDisc pre-sharpened its images, the quality of your print could be sacrificed. Different processes and environ- 2 ments require different amounts of sharpening - what looks good onscreen could look terrible in print, or vice versa. At PhotoDisc we JPEG-compress all our images on the highest setting to ensure that the least amount of image quality is lost. If we pre-sharpened and then JPEG- compressed, there's a strong chance the image would end up blotchy. Illustrations: 1. Image with no sharpening 2. Image with average sharpening 3. Closeup of average sharpening 4. Over-sharpened image B 4 24 25
