tailieunhanh - How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P6

How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P6: 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 1 What You Can Do with Your Scanner 9 FIGURE 1-5 Some color-correction tools from PhotoSuite 4 a program commonly used after scanning 1 You Can Cut and Crop a Scanned Image There s a lot to worry about when you take a photo the subject the lighting the background and so on and just when you get everyone perfectly positioned against the sunset beach some unwanted passerby plunks down in the background with a beach umbrella. The ability to crop an image can solve this problem. You might simply be able to crop out that umbrella. 10 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner The ability to crop an image allows you control over your subject matter. You can concentrate on getting the shot and worry later about what s in the background. Cropping also allows you to emphasize the important parts of a photo. Figures 1-6 and 1-7 illustrate how getting rid of some extraneous background focuses attention on the subjects. Figures 1-8 and 1-9 illustrate how scanning and cropping allow you to turn a spontaneous photo into a portrait of your intended subject. FIGURE 1-6 Lots of extraneous background detracts from this shot. CHAPTER 1 What You Can Do with Your Scanner 11 FIGURE 1-7 1 Cropping cleans up the background and focuses attention on the subjects. FIGURE 1-8 This spontaneous photo captures a smiling .