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Click ‘Preview’ (as was done in this example) and, if there is only one photo
on the scanner platen, the wizard will automatically select it. You can drag the
scanning boundaries to select and scan only a particular section of the image.
You can put several photos on your scanner at once and choose the scanning
area for each of them by hand. When you click ‘Scan’ the wizard asks for a group
name and the file type you want (i.e., BMP, JPEG, TIF and PNG). If you want to
scan several pictures one after another click ‘Back’ instead of ‘Finish’ on the final
screen.
Choosing ‘Custom’ and then ‘Custom settings’ enables you to pick the
brightness, contrast and resolution to scan at as well as setting whether it’s a
color, grayscale, or black and white photo. You can only use the optical resolution
of the scanner because the wizard can’t do interpolation, unlike the software that’s
designed to drive the scanner.
Scan at the size and resolution appropriate to the photo’s destination. If you
scan the photo at too large a size the file will contain a lot of unnecessary data,
resulting in overly long uploads and downloads. If you scan at too small a size the
photo won’t contain enough data. Both of these extremes can degrade image
quality.
Finally, give the file a descriptive name: