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.

NOTE: due to the large amount of text and graphics, this eBook file is 13.5 MG. We recommend that you download this eBook using the fastest Internet connection at your disposal, otherwise you may notice a longer downloading time than usual.

Part I: The Basics of Scanning

Chapter 1: What You Can Do with Your Scanner

Chapter 2: How Scanning Technology Works

Chapter 3: Selecting the Right Scanner

Chapter 4: Install Your Scanner and Inventory Your Hardware

Part II: The Techniques of Scanning and Editing

Chapter 5: The Basics for Your First Scan

Chapter 6: Scanning Techniques for Different Types of Images

Chapter 7: Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks

Chapter 8: Formats for Saving and Storing Files

Chapter 9: Selecting the Right Image-Editing Program

Chapter 10: Which Photo-Editing Tools Are Useful for Specific Tasks

Part III: Practical Uses for Your Scanner

Chapter 11: Scanning Instant Images: JoyCam, i-Zone, and Other Polaroid Products

Chapter 12: Scanning Negatives and Slides

Chapter 13: Scanning Text Documents Using OCR Software

Part IV: Additional Scanning Projects

Chapter 14: Basic Scanning Projects for Home Hobbyists

Chapter 15: Making Works of Art and Fun from Scanned Photos

Chapter 16: Communicating Through Scanned Photos

Chapter 17: Adding Scanned Images to Your Web Pages and Email