tailieunhanh - How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P55

How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P55: 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. | 254 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner FIGURE 14-14 A surrealistic faux background Using the PhotoSuite Database to Create a Background To access the various backgrounds that come with PhotoSuite follow these steps 1. Click the Compose button on the navigation bar. The navigation bar is located directly below the menu bar. 2. Click the Fun Stuff button on the panel on the left. CHAPTER 14 Basic Scanning Projects for Home Hobbyists 255 3. Click Backgrounds to display a number of layout templates in the work area. 4. Double-click on the background template that you want to use. The background appears on your screen. 5. Import photos you want to superimpose on the background you ve selected using the Activity panel on the left. Create Your Own Background If you re working in an image-editing program that doesn t provide a database of backgrounds such as PhotoDeluxe you can create your own. Here are a few suggestions for doing so As with props don t limit yourself to backgrounds you ve photographed on your own. For example try scanning a sunset or rainforest from a magazine such as National Geographic. Scour color travel brochures for high-quality images of faraway places that can serve as backgrounds. Eliminate unwanted objects from magazine and travel backgrounds or from your own photos using the clone tool in your image-editing program. This tool is discussed in Chapter 10. If your program has a stitching or other tool that allows you to combine photographs see Chapter 10 consider combining multiple scanned images to create an interesting background. Add a Drop Shadow PhotoSuite allows you to add a drop shadow to add authenticity to imported images. The use of this interesting feature is illustrated in Figures 14-15 and 14-16. 14 FIGURE 14-15 An object without a drop shadow 256 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner FIGURE 14-16 After the drop shadow has been applied To add a drop shadow using PhotoSuite follow these steps 1. Click the Adjust Objects button on .