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What Can You Do With A Scanner?
Ever
want to save old photos so they'd last forever? Now you can with assistance of a
scanner.
A scanner is in a lot of ways like a run of the mill, regular office
photocopier. It looks at something, whether it be a picture of a legal form, then
makes a copy of it on a piece of paper. The only difference is that a scanner sends
that copy of the picture or legal document to the computer. From there you can do a
lot of things. You can make copies just like you usually would with a photocopier,
you can put that document on the internet, and you can fax or email that document to
someone. But the real payoff comes with scanning pictures.
You can scan in a picture, color it, warp it, morph it, trim it, rotate
it, fax it, remove any red eyes, reprint it on photo paper, send it through email, put it
on the internet, and do hundreds of other things to it. For example, I scanned in a
picture of someone I know and then colored it. You can see the difference.
 
Is that amazing or what?
If
you would just like to play around with a scanner, let me say that it is fun once you get
it working, but the installation can be a bit tricky if you don't know what you're doing.
Maybe you can let your local computer assistant help you out (I know there's
one of those in your town. There's one of those in every town). Scanners are
relatively cheap these days. I recommend the CanoScan FB620u by Cannon. That's
the one that I used for those images. It comes with a program called PhotoDeluxe by
Adobe. Adobe makes another programs, called PhotoShop, which is what most if not all
professionals use. PhotoDeluxe has all of the features of PhotoShop, plus red eye
reduction, in just a simpler layout. The whole kit, the scanner and the program and
the documentation, costs somewhere around $100.
J. Brunelle
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