The Authors of Digital Imaging Tear Their Hair Out So Their Readers Won't
Have To

Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta have lost their home. It's buried
under tons of imaging equipment that they are personally testing.

Today, Sally's office contains a 486 PC computer connected via an anarchy
of cabling and conflicting software drivers to three desktop film
scanners, three film recorders, two printers and sundry accessories.
Daniel's office is filled to the rafters with flatbed scanners, with both
a 486 and 386 computer. And Sally's slide sorting room has been taken over
by an Apple Quadra computer, connected to even more scanners, recorders
and "a partridge in a pear tree." Their foyer has become a round robin
fuselage of deliveries and pick ups. And their two Hungarian sheepdogs and
Burmese cat are losing sleep over trying to find their way to their
favorite nooks.

Next week, the configurations will change again, as the Grottas put more
equipment through various real life imaging tests.

Why go through all this? Because it's one thing to read about equipment
specifications and listen to sales promises. It's an entirely different
matter to learn just how those numbers relate to and affect the final
image. Of course, imaging is much more than hardware tests, so Sally is
busy using as many software programs as she can, long into the night, to
find out how each affects her creativity.

Luckily, the Grottas have a healthy sense of humor. More often than not,
when they first try to attach a new piece of equipment, something goes
wrong. Then, it's onto the phone to technical support and other advisors,
or when worse comes to worse, an excursion into the piles of only slightly
readable manuals that must have been written first in Chinese, translated
into Russian and then into English by a Frenchman. It's no wonder that
sometimes the Grottas can be seen pulling their hair out by the roots. As
Daniel Grotta has said, "With computers, when things go wrong, it's an
adventure. When they go right, it's a miracle."

But all this chaos has a very worthwhile purpose. The end result will be
Digital Imaging, the first reliable sourcebook to ease the visual artist's
transition to computerized imaging. In addition to providing easy to
follow hardware and software guidelines and advice that will help readers
avoid potential problems and pitfalls, Digital Imaging will cover many of
the ethical, financial and career concerns that imaging artists will have
to consider.

McGraw-Hill Inc, Professional Book Group
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0850
717-794-2191,  1-800-233-1128,  FAX 717-794-2103

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