How to do everything with your scanner

You'll learn to get the most out of your scanner, and do cool things like scan photos, negatives, and documents. What's more, you can then add your scanned images to Web pages, e-mails, and greeting cards. Also includes details on color correction, photo editing, and scanner repair tips.

How to Do Everything with Your Scanner contains projects, resources, ideas, and simple instructions to help you get the most from your scanner for home or business use. Learn to use all your scanner's features, as well as professional-caliber image-editing tools that enable you to do everything from colorizing black-and-white photos to switching heads, bodies and backgrounds. Explore graphic concepts including color correction, resolution, and image optimizing--plus scanner repair, troubleshooting, and more. Let this great resource show you how to enhance and preserve your family memories, and create state-of-the-art, professional images--all with your scanner!

• Pick the best scanner, features, and applications for you
• Organize and repair forgotten and damaged photos
• Easily create calendars, greeting cards, and gift items
• Learn to use sophisticated image-editing tools formerly available only to professional photographers
• Digitally cut, paste, and combine multiple scanned photos into a single scene or collage
• Copy and send scanned photos by e-mail, and post them on the Web for friends and family
• Create your own Web site featuring scanned photos, even if you have no prior experience with Web design
• Design and create business cards, stationary, brochures, and slide presentations using scanned images
• Scan negatives, slides, magazines, 3D items, and more

Includes 16 full-color pages of scanning and photo-editing projects you can do yourself.

Contents

1: The Basics of Scanning

1: How Scanning Technology Works

2: Select the Right Scanner

3: Install Your Scanner

2: The Technique of Scanning

4: Graphics Concepts Related to Scanning

5: Improve the Quality of Your Scanned Images

6: Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks

3: Editing Your Scanned Images

7: Select a Digital Editing Program

8: Which Photo Editing Tools to Use?

4: Practical Uses for Your Scanner

9: Scan Negatives and Slides

10: Reproduce Instantly Developed Photos

11: Scan OCR Images

12:Repair and Restore Your Photos

13: Scan Forms and Documents

5: Additional Scanning Projects

14: Promote a Professional Image With Logos and Presentations

15:Create Newsletters, Stationary and Other Communication Tools

16:Add Scanned Images to Your Web Pages and E-Mails

17:Scanning Projects for Home and Leisure

18:Create Greeting Cards, Calendars and Picture Frames with Scanned Images