I've been ask a number of times by customers, "How to I scan a picture from a magazine article, and get rid of all of the text so I just copy the picture?"
Well, outside of using photo editing software, here's an easy way to accomplish this task if you're using an HP scanner:
The new digital cameras are great! The image quality from the 7+ megapixel cameras is really sharp, but have you looked at the jpeg file sizes? Most of the file sizes are 2+ megabytes in size. Depending on the capacity of someone's email-box, mailing several of them could fill it right up.
Here's a short video on how to resize those large digital photos:
In my last post, you saw what the buttons on top of the scanner are used for. Now watch this video to see what happens when you press Scan.
Scanning video: http://screencast.com/t/YXFfRdDqp
You've just purchased a new scanner, and might be wondering what all of those buttons on the lid are. Here's a photo of the buttons on a HP scanner, and how they're used.
"Scan" just scans docs/pics to a file.
"Negative/slides" is used for scanning film.
"Printer" acts as a copier and sends docs directly to be printed.
"Email" attaches the scan to send as an email.
Files have gotten bigger. Unfortunately floppies disks have not, and sometimes copying/burning your files to CD is not an option.
Here's a short video on how to use a Flash drive:
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