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How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P54: 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 249 FIGURE 14-8 A sampling of hat and body props included with PhotoSuite How to Add Props to a Photo A prop is an image that you import into a photo from a database included with the image-editing software or from another source. Figure 14-9 shows a portion of the menu of props you ll find on the PhotoSuite content CD. In PhotoSuite props are organized by category. Figure 14-10 shows a relatively uninteresting photograph of two subjects. Figure 14-11 shows portions of the same in a picture that uses the PhotoSuite body switch props imported onto a faux background. The same source photo is shown again in Figure 14-12 with a few randomly imported props from the 14 PhotoSuite database. If you re working with a program that doesn t come with a database of props such as PhotoDeluxe you can create your own using the cutting tools in your imageediting program. These tools are discussed in Chapter 10. Essentially creating your own database of props involves scanning images and cutting out the portions you want to save and use as props. 250 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner FIGURE 14-9 PhotoSuite comes with an extensive props database. Adding Props Using PhotoSuite To add props to your photo you need to locate the props database in your imageediting program and follow the directions for importing the props. For example if you re working in PhotoSuite you ll follow these steps 1. Click the Compose button on the Navigation bar and then the Add Props button on the Activity panel that appears. 2. Choose a props category from the drop-down menu. 3. Drag the desired prop to the work area and adjust the size and position of the prop by dragging the size handles on the bounding box. CHAPTER 14 Basic Scanning Projects for Home Hobbyists 251 FIGURE 14-10 A relatively uninteresting photo FIGURE 14-11 14 Portions of the source photo used with the PhotoSuite body switch props on a faux .