1. Introduction to Scanning

2. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 2 Overview of Scanning Four key steps  Plan  Capture  Edit  Save

3. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 3 Plan to Scan  What is the message?  Select images or objects.  Does this image tell the story?  How will I use the image?  Will the image be displayed on a monitor? Printed?  Will I need to reuse the image for something else?

4. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 4 Capture the Image  Position the image  Launch the scanner software  Preview the scan

5. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 5 What is Scan Mode? Line Art Halftones Grayscale Color

6. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 6 What is Resolution?  The density of dots that represent an image. Think grid.  Low resolution  Higher resolution

7. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 7 Typical Resolutions  Monitor displays, either presentation software or web-based  Set resolution at  Mac platform = 96  PC platform = 72  Printed copy  Set resolution at 300

8. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 8 Final Scan  Set the scan image size  The larger the image size, the bigger the file size.  Set the resolution  The larger the value for resolution, the larger the file size.

9. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 9 File Types Print Formats  TIF works for print.  BMP works with image-editing applications. WebFormats Web Formats  GIF works for text and block color images.  JPEG works for pictures with lots of color variations.

10. © 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 10 Save and Name the File  name_of_the_file.tif  name_of_the_file.bmp  name_of_the_file.gif  name_of_the_file.jpg