Saturday 27 April 2013

Learn How To Scan The Easy Way

By Cherry Mercer


To learn how to scan is not difficult because the home scanners available nowadays have so many different inbuilt automatic tools. There are a lot of different types of scanners available in the market but regardless of who the manufacturer is the operation for all different types is more or less the same.

Before using your machine make sure all the settings are being adjusted according to the requirements. The first thing you should do is you must read the manual very carefully in order to get familiar with all the functions and settings. It depends on whether you want to scan a picture, image or document and accordingly you are required to adjust the settings. But there are some scanner that have automatic built in tools and don't need any specific type of adjustments before use.

Generally speaking, the automatic tools can be beneficial but in some cases they can't be much helpful. In order to get the best scanning quality you are required to make certain manual adjustment using the tools. But in some of the scanners these adjustment tools are not quite visible because the automatic settings do a very good job that no further changes are required.

For example, if you are scanning a photo the image can appear either too dark or too light if you haven't fixed the exposure setting. So, when you want an image to balance the light and dark tones try changing the mid tone settings. This setting is helpful to balance the image exposure but doesn't affect the picture quality at all.

The brightness option can be used inn order to balance the light exposure within a document or image. For instance if a document is printed on a darker background it may be scanned in dark tones which makes it difficult to read. Therefore the background tone can be lightened up with the help of pixels.

The color saturation and sharpness of images and documents can also be changed with the help of certain specific tools. But you don't necessarily have to make such changes it all depends on why you require them and how. It is advisable to not over do anything because it can lead to quite bad and severe results. Mostly the scanner itself detects any faults within the image or document that requires to be scanned and then corrects it automatically.

It can be a bit of challenge to scan something that is printed on both sides but at the same time it is quite thin and kind o transparent in appearance. It is most likely that the final result will not be a good one because there is a chance of capturing an image that is not clear. But in certain situations this problem can be solved by placing a black carbon paper on each side of the image.

It might be the case where you will need a bit of time to learn how to scan but once you have done it you will get better every time you do it again. It all depends on what sort of knowledge you have and you can solve the problems you encounter accordingly. It is always good to try doing things again if you have failed to do it right for the first time.




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