> > > Kinda like me with our scanner. We got a scanner, and I could provide you all with pictures of, well, everything.... but I don't know how to use it or get the pictures online, where to put the pictures online.... ANYthing yet.
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> > > uni"maybe that's what i should do this break"peg
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> > We've had a scanner for a year now and I can't do anything with it either. Do these things have to be more confusing than a VCR?
> > Howard
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> Oh come on now, that's easy. Just hook the scanner up (in all likelihood you'll plug the scanner cord into your PC's paralell port... if you've got a printer plugged in there already there should be another port on the scanner for it, of course if it's USB things are in theory easier). Next, open up your favorite image editor or whatever software came with the scanner (ooh, if you haven't installed the scanner drivers/software, do it now). Then, once inside your image editor, you'll likely go to File -> Acquire and from there you'll probably need to choose "TWAIN" or "TWAIN32" though it may vary. Then your scanner software should come into play and you'll go ahead and "PreScan" (unless it's a handheld), select the image area you want to scan, choose a reasonable resolution to scan at, and then presto! Now just pick a good image format and you're finished.
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> Come of to think of it, that wasn't very simple at all. Oh well.
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> Stephen

Oh... but it is just that simple. Once you do it a few times, you'll get used to the nuances. --When Stephen says "reasonable resolution", 300dpi will suffice for most things. My first time, I set it up all the way (9600, I think), and ten minutes later after it finished, I had a file that was somewhere around a hundred megs. Needless to say, I deleted it and rescanned it at 300. Depending upon your scanner & software, you probably also will have options in the preview mode to adjust the brightness, contrast, and the like.
Just get in there and explore the world with both hands, what have you got to loose?

Tra "Time to leave work for another 4 day weekend. --oh the pain, the pain of it all." nio