1. Locate the computers with a scanner attached in the OEC Learning Center. As of the current date, there are three such scanners available directly to the far left of the Learning Center desk. Two are in rooms and there is a third in the open area just outside these rooms.

 

2. All of the equipment should be turned on. If it is not, make sure you turn the scanner on before turning on any other piece of equipment.

 

3. Open the program "Adobe Photoshop". It may be in the "Software Applications" folder or you can start it from the Start button.

 

4. Place the item to be scanned on the scanner. Put it in the upper right hand corner, face down, with the top of the item away from you.

 

5. Once Adobe Photoshop is opened, click on File, Import and choose TWAIN_32 from the choices presented. After you do that a window will open and the scanner will do a "Preview" scan of the item. After the preview is done, the box labeled "Type:" will indicate what type of picture the scanner thinks it is. Usually, you just leave this at what it says. However, you can experiment with the other choices of "Type:", looking at the previewed picture to see if other choices provide better quality. The box labeled "Path:" should be set to "Screen". This will give a good quality scan for graphics to be used on World Wide Web Pages.

 

6. You should now identify how much of the graphic you want scanned in. You do that by first clicking anywhere on the white area under the picture. This will provide you with a "tool" you can use to put a box around what you want.

 

7. Position the crosshair pointer to the upper left corner of the desired box. Click and hold down the left mouse button and move the pointer to the lower right corner of the desired box. Let up the mouse button and a box will be put around the area to scan in. If you make a mistake and want to redo it, click on the white area and try again.

 

8. Once you have the box around what to scan in, press the "Final" button and the picture will be scanned.

 

9. Close the "DeskScan II" window and you will see a window with your graphic in it.

 

10. Click on File, Export and choose the "GIF" format. Use the default settings presented.

 

11. Save the file to your diskette on the A: drive. Give the file a name of eight or fewer characters with no spaces in them. This is the file that you can now load onto your World Wide Web Page.

 

12. Close the Adobe Photoshop program and you’re done!

There are many features in Adobe Photoshop that with which you can experiment. Once you have your picture scanned it, try out some of the menu choices to see what they can do. You might end up with some interesting graphics.

Good Luck!!