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Here's a quick tutorial
on scanning your image. You may have to try scanning
several times until you get the quality desired. Also
the general instructions below may not be an accurately
detailed to your scanner. Please refer to your owner's
manual.
1. Turn on your PC and scanner
(you may have a small power light is on front of your
scanner),
2. Place your graphic face down on the scanner bed with
the corner of the graphic where the arrow points to
outside of the. The top of the graphic should match
with the edge of the glass on the scanner bed.
3. In Windows, click on Start on the Taskbar.
4. Locate Abode Photoshop® or scanning application
from your menu.
5. From "File" on the menu bar, select
"Import" from the drop down.
6. Highlight and click on the scanning software from
the next menu which opens.
7. Your "scanning software" will start a preliminary
scan of your graphic. You can stop the preliminary scan
by clicking on the Cancel button, or you can wait for
the scanner to complete its initial scan.
8. Click on Custom.
9. Select Image Type.
10. In the "Customize Image Type" window,
· select the appropriate color
content and style.
· for color photos, highest color option (example: 32 bit)
· for black & white, select gray scaling.
· The width and height should be set to 1:1 ratio, full size or made bigger through
"scaling"
· Resolution should be set to at least 300dpi
· click OK.
Note: Using higher dpi resolutions
will create larger (slow loading) image files, but
will not result in better looking graphics because
most monitors cannot display that many pixels.
11. The scanned image can be adjusted
by using the three (3) selections, Highlight and Shadow,
Color Adjustment, Emphasis, under Tools on the menu
bar.
12. You will see the scanned image change as you do
the various adjustments available under Tools.
13. When satisfied with your scanned image,
click on the Final button.
14. The image is now in Photoshop®,
and your scanning application will close , unless you
want to re-scan your image.
15. The Save As window will open.
16. your image file will be saved
as a .jpg file.
17. Name your image and click
save
18. The final scan image file will be saved to a disk
or your hard drive.
19. Now you can import your image
into your document type.
If you need further assistance
contact us at madent@bennettgraphics.com
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