Prepress Techniques covered by ATI 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