How to Do Everything With Your Scanner
How to Do Everything With Your Scanner
PDF | 368 Pages | 8 MB
Introduction
Scanners are powerful imaging devices that are now inexpensive enough to be used for fun and recreation as well as business applications.
Once regarded as exotic, complex design tools, scanners are now simple enough to allow even young children to experiment and unleash their creativity.
Better yet, benevolent market forces have unleashed inexpensive image editing software that allows us all to create things in our homes that were once the exclusive domain of graphic artists.You and your family can cut, crop, combine, correct, mail, and post your photos electronically.
You just need someone to guide you through the dazzling array of tools you suddenly have at
your disposal—and that, my scanning friend, is the purpose of this book.
Who Should Read this Book?
Everyone who wants to add a visual component to their communication, be it stationery, greeting cards, or email.
This includes small-business owners, hobbyists, and basically anyone old enough to click a mouse and read the menu options on his or her screen.
Scanning and image editing, with the help of this book, are indeed that simple.
What’s in Each Part of the Book?
The book is divided into four parts to help you complete a course of self-study that will make you a scanning pro:
Part I
Explains the basics of how scanning technology works, how to buy a good
scanner, and how to install it and recognize its parts once you get it home.
Part II
Makes the learning curve for conducting your first scan as brief as possible.
It also gives you a wealth of troubleshooting tips and tricks that will help everyone from novices to experts.
This part concludes by teaching you the basics of editing scanned images how to select an image-editing program and how to use the tools
within it.
Part III
Expands your scanning horizons toward instantly developed photos
(taken with popular Polaroid cameras), negatives, and slides.
It also tells you how to scan a text document and convert it to a file format, such as Microsoft Word, that you can edit.
Part IV
Assumes you are ready to turn your scanned photos into works of art, and to send them to far-flung corners of the world by emailing them and posting them on the Web.
This section even tells you everything you need to know to create your own website to display your scanned photos.
What Features and Benefits Are Included in this Book?
Many helpful editorial elements are presented in this book, including a checklist of how-to topics at the beginning of each chapter to let you know what’s covered.
Skim through these lists to find out what is relevant and interesting to you.
Feel free to skip anything that isn’t.
The chapters of this book are fairly self-contained, and a detailed index is provided to help you review specific terms and concepts.
You’ll also find step-by-step instructions, figures, and illustrations to guide you every step of the way.
The illustrations themselves are also worth skimming to gauge and review your familiarity with the topics covered.
Other useful elements include:
Tips that point out easier and more efficient ways to do projects and tasks under discussion
Cautions that warn you of common errors and pitfalls
Notes that highlight additional relevant concepts
How To and Did You Know sidebars that contain useful additional information about the scanning process and equipment
The following conventions are used in this book:
Click means to click an item once using the left mouse button.
Double-click means to click an item twice in rapid succession using the left
mouse button.
Right-click means to click an item once using the right mouse button.
Work area means the area on your computer screen in which an open project appears for editing.
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