How to Scan Photographs
Do you want to add photographs to your letters, calendars or Web site? Use the guidelines below for the best results in scanning your photographs.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
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Select a good-quality photograph. A poor-quality photograph results in a poor scan.
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Insert the photograph into your scanner (for sheet-fed scanners) or place it onto the scanning surface (for flat-bed scanners).
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Run a preview scan of the photograph to determine the scanning area (don't waste disk space scanning an entire page for a 3 by 5-inch photograph).
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Resize the scanning area to fit the size of the photograph.
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Set the scanning mode to color (or comparable setting) to include all of the colors in your photograph.
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Set the resolution to 200 dpi or better for good quality in your scanned photographs.
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Use the scanner features to increase brightness for underexposed photographs, decrease for overexposed photographs, or adjust colors.
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Insert or place the photograph in the same position that you used for the preview scan, then scan it.
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Save the image in a format (TIFF, PSD) that is understood by your graphic editor or other software program that will use your image.
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Tips & Warnings
To use the image on a Web site, use a graphic application (Photoshop, PaintShop) to convert the image to the JPEG or GIF format. (Web browsers only understand a few formats: GIF, JPEG, and sometimes BMP or PNG.)
Scanned images take up a tremendous amount of disk space. Use compression programs (PKware, WinZip, StuffIt) to store images.
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Comments
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Mar 17, 2006
If you don't have a scanner and need to have a document in you computer, take a picture of it with your digital camera and then just upload it to your computer! You can do it with old pictures, too. The resolution is excellent! -
Mar 17, 2006
If you don't have a scanner and need to have a document in you computer, take a picture of it with your digital camera and then just upload it to your computer! You can do it with old pictures, too. The resolution is excellent!
