How To Do Everything with Your Scanner [Paperback]

David Huss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0072228911 | ISBN-13: 978-0072228915 | Edition: 2

Scan this book! Or, read it cover-to-cover. Either way, you’ll learn which scanner to purchase to suite your needs, important technical information about pixels and digital images, installation and calibration tips, and plenty of tricks to make scanning easier and more effective. Written for both PC and Mac users.

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From the Back Cover

Discover all the basics about your scanner, then put it to work with help from this step-by-step resource. Author Dave Huss looks at how and why scanning works, and examines many ways you can maximize the scanner you already own. Learn to use all your scanner's features. Explore graphic concepts including color correction, resolution, and image optimizing--plus, repair and preserve scanned documents, and more. How to Do Everything with Your Scanner is filled with projects, resources, ideas, and simple instructions to help you get the most from your scanner for home or business use.

• Set up and maintain a scanner for optimal use
• Discover the best scanner, peripherals, and applications for your needs
• Optimize hardware to achieve the best possible scans
• Organize and share files and images online
• Correct and enhance your scanned images
• Use your scanner to preserve and restore family heirlooms
• Scan photos for placement on the Web or to send through email
• Maximize home office tools such as OCR and paper document management
• Learn to use popular photo editors to maximize your scanner experience

About the Author

Dave Huss (Austin, TX) is a graphics and desktop publishing consultant for several Fortune 100 companies and a regular speaker at Corel Seminars both in the U.S. and Europe. He's the author of 9 books about computer graphics--mostly about Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Dave contributes original images regularly to Corel's World Design Contest, and in 1997 was a Grand Prize Winner. He writes a regular column for i/us.com, which is rapidly becoming the premiere resource for graphics content, community and software where branded products from Corel, Macromedia, and Ulead sell alongside unique downloads from small companies with innovative products unavailable anywhere else.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2 edition (April 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072228911
• ISBN-13: 978-0072228915
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #462,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Misnomer for "How to do Everything with SCANNED IMAGES", July 14, 2004

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Rudy "pain-doc" (Columbia, SC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: How To Do Everything with Your Scanner (Paperback)

David Huss is a highly skilled digital imager, and a superb communicator to boot (see my rave review of his Photoshop Elements book). This paperback is no exception - other than that the title is a misnomer that leads one to expect an overview of scanning hardware. And that it ain't! Rather, the title should have been "How To Do Everything with >>Scanned Images<<", and that the author does very well indeed. If you had hoped to learn how scanners work (not even a diagram is provided) or how to get the most scanner for your budget - forget it. Moreover, the chapter on OCR (optical character recognition) is disappointing - many words but few pearls. To add to the confusion caused by the title, this paperback also appears as a hardcover book with precisely identical title, but entirely different author (of the opposite gender yet). Having said this, Mr Huss does a fabulous job of showing you how to scan photo's properly and, better yet, how to process the resulting digital images. The final chapters on correcting & enhancing photo's, and on restoring damaged photo's, rate 5 stars, making the book well worth the modest price. If only the title had not led to expectations unfulfilled.

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definite "must have" guide!, September 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Do Everything With Your Scanner (Paperback)

After having minor problems with my scanner, I went out and looked at various "how to" books -- this one beats the others hands down in termns of organizational format, content, ease to understand and depth. If you think scanners just scan, this book will teach you a few new tricks!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Scanner resource, June 25, 2003

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George Dickens "Graphics Guy" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Do Everything with Your Scanner (Paperback)

Before reading through this book I only used my scanner to occassionaly scan photos. After reading through this book I discovered that I can do a whole lot more and my scanner is no longer gathering dust on my desktop anymore. The author has a very friendly (often humorous) style of writing that makes you feel he is actually talking with you one-to-one. This book should be included with every scanner that is made.