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How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P52: My thanks to the terrifically creative and knowledgeable staff at Osborne, particularly acquisitions editor Megg Bonar and acquisitions coordinator Alissa Larson for their responsiveness and flexibility. Special thanks to technical editor Steve Bain, not only for his insight and attentiveness to accuracy, but also for actively coming up with many ideas for content. | CHAPTER 14 Basic Scanning Projects for Home Hobbyists 239 Image-Editing Software Used for Examples in this Book There are a lot of different image-editing programs on the market. Chapter 10 gave you an overview a sense that all image-editing programs perform the same basic tasks with the more expensive high-end programs offering you more options. PhotoSuite and PhotoDeluxe are the two software programs that come bundled with most scanners. Other programs bundled with scanners such as Paint Shop Pro are remarkably similar to these two industry standards. Consequently these two programs are used to illustrate our projects in this chapter and subsequent chapters but you ll find the steps are pretty much the same for other programs you might be using. TIP After you ve mastered one image-editing program you ll find it extraordinarily easy to master others. The Universal First Step Importing the Image With all image-editing programs the first issue you face is importing a scanned image into the editing software. Does this mean you must first scan an image using your scanner software then open it in your image-editing software No Programs such as PhotoSuite and PhotoDeluxe actually open your scanner software and direct it to perform the scan. The image thus scanned is ready to be edited and saved in whatever image-editing program you re working with. If you re working with PhotoSuite simply follow these steps to scan an image and import it into PhotoSuite 1. After opening the PhotoSuite program click the Get button on the navigation bar. The navigation bar is located below the menu bar. The screen in Figure 14-1 appears displaying an Activity panel on the left. 2. From the list of photo sources displayed on the Activity panel select Scanner TWAIN . A scanner list appears. 3. Select the scanner type from the scanner list. If the list is empty the Scan button will be disabled. 14 240 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner FIGURE 14-1 Click to access scanner software .