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lynda.com Announces "Scanning Principles" 5-Hour Movie-Based Tutorial

OJAI, California, August 31, 2004 -- lynda.com today announces "Scanning Principles" with Taz Tally, Ph.D., a movie-based tutorial designed to help graphics professionals and newcomers to the field consistently achieve top-quality results with a variety of scanned images. The training begins with digital image and scanner fundamentals, then quickly advances to cover simple and complex line art scans, calibrating your scanner for optimal results, capturing grayscale and color photos, descreening, pattern removal, batch scanning and much more. Techniques for faster scanning and workflow integration are also covered. The step-by-step instructions allow you to follow along with your own images, learning at your own pace.

"Scanning Principles" features approximately 5 hours of training and is available now on a Macintosh & Windows compatible CD-ROM for $79.95. Alternatively, a lynda.com Online Learning

Library(tm) subscription starting at just $25 per month provides unrestricted online access to "Scanning Principles" in addition to over 100 titles (totaling over 5,000 movie clips) covering a wide range of software, technologies and techniques.

For more information on this and other training titles, please visit www.lynda.com.