How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P4: My thanks to the terrifically creative and knowledgeable staff at Osborne, particularly acquisitions editor Megg Bonar and acquisitions coordinator Alissa Larson for their responsiveness and flexibility. Special thanks to technical editor Steve Bain, not only for his insight and attentiveness to accuracy, but also for actively coming up with many ideas for content. | 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.
