While looking through chapter four I came upon the section titled appropriate image formats for print. In this section it talked about how TIFF9 tagged image file format) is the most widely suported image file format. TIFF can be imported into Illustraor, Indesign, QuarkXpress, Microsoft world and some text editors. TIFF's is able to support multiple laters as well as RGB and CMYK. The second most common form  is EPS an EPS can contain vector art,  raster image or a combination of raster and vector content.

Inappropriate Image formats for print consist of PNG ( Portable Network Graphics) which are used for onscreen and web use. BMP, GIF and JPEG are also not formats that are good to use when printing.

A pixel is a shorthand for picture element, this is this the smallest unit of information in a digitized image. Though images may look smooth on the screen, if you really zoom in you will see there are a ton of tiny squared that make up the image.

The difference between a JPG and RAW file is mostly in the compression. With JPEG the image is  compressed. Raw is an image taken from a digital camera, this is mainly done with DSLR cameras. Raw has little or no compression.

For PPI (pixels per inch) resolution an onscreen image consist of 72ppi and print image is 300ppi.

Bitmap contain only black and white pixels ranging from 600-1200ppi which make clean images. The bitmap images are most common when scanning.

When images are cropped you should leave extra space use to prevent any errors. Problems can always occur so before you cropp an image you should make sure you have an  the original image saved. When rotating images you should only rotate in 90 degree rotations so that no details are lost from the image.

Transparency Tip- "Although Illustrator, InDesign, and QuarkPress accept and correctly handle opacity settings in a placed Photoshop native file, they do not correctly handle blending modes in a Photoshop file. The most common example is a drop shadow created in Photoshop. While the shadow will correctly darken image content beneath it in Photoshop, it will knock out of content beneath it in InDesign or Illustrator. The result is an anemic and unrealistic gray shadow-not what you want...A simple solution is to omit the shadow in Photoshop, and generate it instead in InDesgin or Illustrator, whose shadows behave correctly, darkening content beneath the shadows as you intended." Page 89, BOOK)

Vector Graphics- vectors ahave no pixels and are able to be altered without scaling restrictions, the image does also not loss any of the clearness.

Vector file formats- Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) with EPS you are able to save a vector in its original file format, it may also be saved as a PDF.

Embedding fonts make it so a font can be viewed and printed but it is not able to be edited.

Outlining Text- This fonts have certain information called hinting; hinting refines the display and printing of the text. When converting the text into an outline form it totally get rid of the hinting effect.

Simplify path is where you make fewer points onto a vector object so the object has cleaner and smoother lines.

SOURCE: Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications by Claudia McCue