June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 34m
English
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Using Windows Scanner Wizard
A scanner is simply an enormous digital camera that points in a fixed direction: up. And just like a camera, your scanner comes with scads of settings that most folks live a long and happy life without ever adjusting. That’s where Windows XP’s built-in Scanner and Camera Wizard (the same one you learned about earlier in this chapter) comes in: It’s your ticket to a remarkably pain-free scanning experience. Follow these steps for quick, and easy scanning.
Clean your scanner’s surface, and place the photo you want to scan in the upper-right corner of the scanning bed.
Before scanning, always wipe the scanner’s glass bed with a clean, lint-free cloth. Add a little rubbing alcohol to the cloth for the really nasty goo spots. You want to remove every dust speck before those fibers end up magnified 200 times on your scanned image. Place your image in the corner for one simple reason: Doing so squares the edges, so the image sits nice and straight in the scanned image you create.
Figure 4-6. Choosing TWAIN from Photoshop Elements File → Import menu brings up this screen, which lets you tweak your scan’s color, size, and exposure settings, much like a digital camera’s manual controls. If you spot TWAIN listed on your graphics software’s menus, select it for a few test scans; you may prefer its controls over Windows XP’s built-in scanner wizard.
Turn on your scanner, ...
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