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How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P58: 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 15 Making Works of Art and Fun from Scanned Photos 269 FIGURE 15-6 A frame effect created without a template If all you re after is a plain frame or border try scanning a sheet of colored paper to use as a background. You can further adjust the color of the frame or border using the color adjustment tools included with your image-editing software program. Another great way to create a frame or border for a photo is to surround the photo 15 with small images as I ve done in Figure 15-7. The technique for accomplishing this result was a simple matter of copying and pasting the image repeatedly around the border of the photo. 210 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Create a border by copying and pasting a small image. FIGURE 15-7 Does this frame effect seem a bit too basic Try using the cutting tool and some of the other image-editing tools discussed in Chapter 10 to create a more sophisticated photo collage. Follow these steps 1. Open the photo for which you want to create a frame or border and then open the photo from which you want to create the border. 2. Cut and crop the image you want to use to create the border using the imageediting tools described in Chapter 10 for cutting and pasting. 3. Shrink the cut and cropped image to the size you want it to be for the border. 4. Copy the resized image onto your image-editing clipboard by going to the File menu and selecting the Copy option. CHAPTER 15 Making Works of Art and Fun from Scanned Photos 271 5. Close the photo from which you ve cropped the image you re using for the border. 6. Copy the resized cropped border image repeatedly around the edge of your photo to get the desired effect. Adding Text Captions and Word Balloons to Scanned Photos A picture might be worth thousands of words but a few well-chosen words can enhance an already terrific photo as shown in Figure 15-8. Fortunately most imageediting programs have the capability to add text word balloons and captions. If your particular program .