Prepress Services

Prepress Techniques covered by IWST include acquiring images from a scanner or digital camera, determining resolution, basic retouching and editing of portraits, color correcting images, and combining images. Some of the retouching techniques include taking glare off of glasses, softening backgrounds, removing dust and scratches, smoothing down fly-away hair, and fixing blemishes.

Some of our area of concentration include:

		Using the editing tools to sharpen, blur, dodge, burn, saturate and desaturate
		Enhancing facial features by increasing or decreasing exposure in given areas
		Eliminating imperfections, scratches and dust in a portrait
		Changing the focal point by subduing or blurring the background
		Combining photos using layer masks
		Changing the directional lighting
		Reducing the film grain effect