Scanning Pictures

Using a scanner to get pictures into your computer

Pre-Scanning l Scanning l Diagram l Using Pictures

This page may be a varying degrees of help. Depending on what scanner you are using, the software loaded onto your computer, and the individual setup, directions may vary. We will try to give some general directions to scanning. This particular example is using a UMAX scanner and VistaScan software.

Pre-Scanning:

  1. Place your picture onto the glass on the scanner, face down, aligned straight.
  2. Locate and open the scanning software, ie: VistaScan, it might be through PhotoDeluxe. Using VistaScan, you will see a screen similar to the one below.

The first step is to get your image onto the screen;

Click on the "Preview" or "Pre Scan" button to get your picture on the screen. The picture has not yet been scanned. It is simply on your screen so that you can make the desired selections before actually scanning it.

Scanning:

  1. Use the cross hairs to draw a dotted lined box selecting the area you wish to scan, cropping out the unwanted area.
  2. Choose the dpi (dots per inch) resolution. If you are going to use the picture on the web 72 dpi is fine. If your going to be printing the picture, you might want to select a higher dpi.
  3. Select the color you wish to scan depending on your original and your desired outcome., ie: color, gray, line art.
  4. Select your size percentage.
  5. You can choose to lighten or darken or change the contrast of your picture.
  6. Once all selections have been made, Click on the "Scan" button and your picture will be scanned.
  7. At the save dialog box, you need to give your picture a name, decide where to save it, and for "File Format" choose "Pict" instead of "Tiff."
  8. Then click "Scan"
  9. When finished, click on "Cancel" and quit out of the program.

Once Scanned:

You can insert the picture into Word or into a website.

Web Page by Steve Christensen: Rev. 5/06