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How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P8: 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 19 Novelty items such as fake magazine covers IDs and posters Professionally created templates and layouts help you create sophisticated novelty items like the 1 million-dollar bill with the imported photo shown in Figure 1-17. Novelty items such as fake magazine covers are a popular application of scanning technology. FIGURE 1-17 Chapters 15 and 16 tell how to make the projects described above including where to find templates for them. You Can Email Scanned Photos and Post Them on the Web Once of the biggest benefits of scanning is that it makes your images portable. Sure you can go to a photo lab and pay to have a few extra copies made for your friends and relatives but using a lab to copy and share photos is inefficient if not downright expensive. 20 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Your new scanner offers you the following options for sharing photos You can make your own copies. With a scanner a decent printer and some good-quality paper you don t need to resort to a lab to make a simple copy. There are times when you might want to use a lab to achieve a higher level of quality but scanning gives you the option to autonomously reproduce your photos. You can scan negatives. Some printers afford you the capability to scan negatives. Chapter 12 tells you more about this optional feature. You can email a photo. If you know how to email your scanner gives you the capability to send your photos electronically. This medium offers the advantages of instant delivery and your recipients can print forward edit and delete the pictures you send to them. Chapter 17 provides you with time- and space-saving tips for emailing your photos. You can post photos to a communal website. There are many services on the Web that allow you to post your scanned photos to a communal website. After you upload your photos as explained in Chapter 17 you can give friends and family a password. This allows them to access and view your photos .