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You Can Email Scanned Photos and Post Them on the Web Once of the biggest benefits of scanning is that it makes your images portable.. There are times when you might want to use a lab to

Novelty items such as fake magazine covers, IDs, and posters Professionally created templates and layouts help you create sophisticated novelty items, like the million-dollar bill with the imported photo shown in Figure 1-17

FIGURE 1-17 Novelty items such as fake magazine covers are a popular application

of scanning technology

Chapters 15 and 16 tell how to make the projects described above, including where to find templates for them.

You Can Email Scanned Photos and Post Them on the Web

Once of the biggest benefits of scanning is that it makes your images portable Sure, you can go to a photo lab and pay to have a few extra copies made for your friends

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Your new scanner offers you the following options for sharing photos:

You can make your own copies. With a scanner, a decent printer, and some good-quality paper, you don’t need to resort to a lab to make a simple copy There are times when you might want to use a lab to achieve a higher level of quality, but scanning gives you the option to autonomously reproduce your photos

You can scan negatives. Some printers afford you the capability to scan negatives Chapter 12 tells you more about this optional feature

You can email a photo. If you know how to email, your scanner gives you the capability to send your photos electronically This medium offers the advantages

of instant delivery, and your recipients can print, forward, edit, and delete the pictures you send to them Chapter 17 provides you with time- and space-saving tips for emailing your photos

You can post photos to a communal website. There are many services on the Web that allow you to post your scanned photos to a communal website After you upload your photos (as explained in Chapter 17), you can give friends and family

a password This allows them to access and view your photos without having to download and store them on their own computers

You can create your own website. Even if you have no prior experience doing anything like website creation, you too can be the master and designer of your own website featuring scanned photos you upload Chapter 17 covers a range of different products, features, and services that allow you to do this

Of course, after you get your scanner, you might still want to send pictures via the U.S postal service (sometimes referred to as “snail mail”) The next time you do, however, you have the option of mailing them on a disk or CD!

You Can Organize Images into Easily Accessed Databases

What good is a photo you can’t find? Scanning photos allows you to organize your memories into digital databases—sometimes called albums You can give photos and albums descriptive names, and use search tools within a program to access them quickly

Chapter 14 tells you about the features in PhotoSuite 4 and Photoshop for accessing and archiving photos.

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Other Uses for Your Scanner

Scanning allows you to come as close to editing reality as any technology in history

It also makes sharing photos with family and friends inexpensive and efficient—but don’t forget some other important applications for your scanner:

Business applications Scanning makes it easy to share and send promotional items, and to create impressive logos from digital images to stylize all your business communications

Creating trees, charts, diagrams, and other compositions Scanning allows you

to create family trees and organizational charts, combining multiple scanned photos and sizing them to the exact proportions you need, as shown in Figure 1-18

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PowerPoint presentations and slide shows You can use the PhotoSuite digital-imaging program to create slides from scanned image files, as explained in Chapter 14 You can also import them, as you would any other image file, into PowerPoint If you want to learn more about how to use Power Point to create

presentations from scanned photos, PowerPoint 2000: Get Professional Results

(Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1999) provides an excellent reference

A Logical Approach to Getting Started

Scanners are sophisticated technology, but they’re simple to learn If you’re wondering the best way to start mastering your new tool, try this approach:

Shop for the right scanner. Identify a scanner model that best meets your needs, paying close attention to the differing features of various models and which software comes bundled with them Chapter 3 provides tips to help you select the right scanner in your price range

Become familiar with your scanner and its parts. Try several test scans before attempting any projects Chapters 4 and 5 will help you with this phase of the learning process

Choose an image-editing program. Decide which image-editing program allows you to accomplish your planned projects and has an interface you’re comfortable with Chapter 9 provides information about different types of image-editing programs, their features, and their level of difficulty to master

Familiarize yourself with image-editing tools. Chapter 10 explains common image-editing tools, and how to select the right ones for the project tasks you want

to accomplish

Begin your projects. Experiment with different projects, perusing Chapters 15–17

of this book for ideas

Within a matter of days, you can expect to become familiar and proficient with sophisticated image-editing tools that were once the domain of professional photographers The learning process begins in Chapter 2!

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How Scanning Technology Works

Chapter 2