FROM THE PUBLISHER

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.

SYNOPSIS

Another volume in the popular, solutions-packed HTDE series. 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.

AUTHOR DESCRIPTION

Jill Gilbert strayed from a career as a tax attorney, succumbing to the lure of technology. She holds a law degree, is a CPA, and is completing a master's degree in computer science in furtherance of a career in patent law. She has three grade-school children who learned to read from a computer screen and now prefer scanners and image-editing software to crayons.