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Introduction | |
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What's Really Required | |
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About This Book | |
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Conventions Used in This Book | |
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How This Book Is Organized | |
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Icons Used in This Book | |
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Where to Go from Here | |
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The Scam on Scanners | |
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Let's Get Digitized! | |
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"Okay, I'll Bite--What's a Scanner?" | |
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What Can I Scan, Mr. Spock? | |
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Different Breeds of Scanner | |
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Examining the Innards | |
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Scanning Explained (for Normal Folks) | |
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Resolving Resolution | |
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How Deep Is Your Color? | |
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The Joys of Buying a Scanner | |
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A Game of Five Questions (Actually, Just Three) | |
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Have I Got an Interface for You! | |
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TWAIN (Not the Tom Sawyer Guy) | |
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Scanner Features to Covet | |
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Software You've Just Gotta Have | |
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And the Winner Is | |
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"Should I Buy on the Web?" | |
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Supporting Your Local Hardware Hut | |
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Surviving the Installation | |
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"Will That Be Parallel, USB, or FireWire?" | |
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The Plug and the Play | |
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Before You Begin | |
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Docking at the Parallel Port | |
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USB or Bust (and FireWire, too) | |
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Don't Forget Your Driver! | |
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And Then There's SCSI | |
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The Way Things Should Work | |
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Look Out, It's the Terminator, er, Governor of California! | |
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Can I See Some ID, Please? | |
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Installing Your SCSI Card | |
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Connecting Your SCSI Scanner | |
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Uh ... It's Not Working | |
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Installing the Extra Stuff | |
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Installing Your Scanner Software | |
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Pile On an Image Editor | |
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"Do I Need More Storage?" | |
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Printers, Printers, Printers | |
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Testing the Whole Doggone Thing | |
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Bread-and-Butter Scanning | |
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Just Plain, Basic Scanning | |
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Before You Scan | |
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Lining Things Up | |
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Make with the Settings | |
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Previewing on Parade | |
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Choosing a Chunk | |
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Doing the Scan Thing | |
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Look, Ma--One Button! | |
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Examining Your Original: The Sequel | |
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So What's the Difference? | |
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Line Art | |
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Color and Grayscale Photographs | |
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Halftone Images | |
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3-D Objects | |
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Text | |
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Attack of the Fine-Tuning Monster | |
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Are All These Advanced Settings Really Necessary? | |
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Setting Your Resolution | |
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Colors and Bits, Colors and Bits | |
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The Light and the Dark | |
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Size Really Does Count | |
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Making Green Bananas Yellow | |
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Basic Filters 101 | |
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Flipping and Rotating: The Scanner Dance Craze | |
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Let's Invert | |
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Image Editing the Easy Way | |
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Introducing the Tool of Choice: Paint Shop Pro | |
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Opening a File | |
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Shall We Browse? | |
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Cropping a Scanned Image | |
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Sharpen That Line, Mister! | |
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It's Just Too Big! | |
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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall | |
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The Light and the Dark | |
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Wouldn't a Frame Look Nice? | |
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Removing Uncle Milton's Red-Eye | |
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Rotating 101 | |
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Who Needs Color, Anyway? | |
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A Little Alchemy: Changing Image Formats | |
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The Lazy Expert's Guide to Advanced Scanning | |
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So You Want to Be an Internet Graphics Guru | |
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GIF Isn't a Snack Food, and JPEG Isn't Spelled Jaypeg | |
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What the Sam Hill Is a PNG? | |
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Choosing Color Depth for Web Images | |
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Compression in the 21st Century | |
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That Color Doesn't Look Right | |
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What Size Is Best for the Web? | |
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Sending Your Scans through E-Mail | |
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Wait a Second: Is This Legal? | |
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Should I Keep This to Myself? | |
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Advanced Image Editing 101 | |
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Making Magic with Scanned Images | |
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Introducing Filters and Effects | |
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Going Wild with the Effect Browser | |
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Let's Hear It for Plug-Ins! | |
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Editing Tiny Pieces of Your Images | |
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Imaging Tools You Can't Resist | |
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Maintaining the Scanner Beast | |
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Calibrate Your Way to Happiness | |
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The Right Way to Clean Your Scanner | |
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Hardware Nightmares and How to Fix Them | |
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Software Nightmares and How to Fix Them | |
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Help! | |
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Scanner Projects for Crafty People | |
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Creating a Custom Wine Label | |
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A T-Shirt with a Personal Touch | |
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Creating a Slide Show CD | |
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Using an OCR Program | |
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Faxing a Scanned Image | |
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The Part of Tens | |
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Ten Tips and Tricks for Better Scanning and Editing | |
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Investigate New Software | |
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Experiment! | |
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Thanks for the Memory | |
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Update Everything | |
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Avoid the Edge | |
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Toss Your Mouse | |
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Hard Drive Tips and Tricks | |
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Know Thy Scanning Software | |
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Defragment Your Hard Drive | |
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Splurge on Your Monitor | |
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Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague | |
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The Pentium II and the PowerPC 60x | |
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Printer Cartridge Scanners | |
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Serial Scanners | |
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Old Printer Cables | |
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Refurbished Hardware | |
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Scanning Copyrighted Work | |
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Windows 95 and System 7 | |
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Obscure Image Formats | |
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Small-Capacity Hard Drives and Floppy Disks | |
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Materials That Should Never Be Scanned | |
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Ten Signs of a Good Scan | |
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Keeping Things Straight | |
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Crop 'Til You Drop | |
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You're Looking Sharp | |
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Flat Is Nice | |
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That's, Like, So ... Transparent | |
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Your Original Is Your Friend | |
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Favor the First Generation | |
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Size Does Matter | |
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Colors That Balance | |
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A Finely Tuned Format | |
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Ten Favorite Effects | |
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Introducing the Sample Scan | |
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Fur | |
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Texture | |
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Buttonize | |
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Page Curl | |
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Ripple | |
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Sunburst | |
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Glowing Edges | |
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Rotating Mirror | |
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Punch | |
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Brush Strokes | |
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Appendixes | |
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Scanner Hardware and Software Manufacturers | |
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Hardware Manufacturers | |
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Software Developers | |
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Glossary | |
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About the CD | |
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System Requirements | |
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Using the CD with Microsoft Windows | |
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Using the CD with Mac OS | |
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What You'll Find on the CD | |
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Troubleshooting | |
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Index | |
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End-User License Agreement | |