Basic Settings for a Scanner

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"Hello, my name is Tony Ramirez from Tampa Bay, Florida and on behalf of Expert Village this is how to setup your scanner, let's begin. So these are the basic settings for using your scanner. I have here our software is already loaded and our drivers are loaded, I'm using my HP all in one scanner. This software, the particular software that actually loads I know it's a little difficult to see on the screen right now. But the basic settings are basic to every single software. I control mine with using a photoshop, any software that you have, any photo editing, any graphic program you should be able to control your scanner as well. But they all have their built in software just like this one that actually pops up. So once you're in it you have options to actually scan or preview already except the things that are there. I have a picture already loaded from something I did already, we have basic stuff to where we can rotate, zoom into the picture, whatever it is lighten, darken, sharpen, anything that you want to do, color adjustments such and such. So one of the biggest things I want to give you a little key note on is the resolution. That is probably the most important thing, let's click there. If you're messing with resolution in my recommendation if you're scanning for instance a photo and you want to be able to print it out. I would scan it something around three hundred DPI, right now it is set to default two hundred just like it is here. I just go ahead and click over three hundred pretty much anything over three hundred is kind of a way for just basic printing. But around three hundred DPI would give you a good crisp scan and a good enough print quality whenever you're printing out the final product. Whatever you did to it rather it's adding titles or editing the actual photo. So it's very simple to use if you're going to have things for instance, if you want to scan a photo or business card or something that is not as important as far as a resolution wise. You can scan anything from hundred or under if you're going to email it especially on the website on the website of yours anything that transfers. So those are your basic settings, every software is slightly different of where they are and do pretty much the same thing, again it's your resolution, it's your color, zoom, resize, crop all things like that. In our next chapter we'll show you how to use it."