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| My scanner is a Canon "CanoScan N640P". If you have purchased this scanner and had the software installed, the following will take you through to a scanned sketch, picture or photo placed on your Geocities web page. The user interface starts with a tiny tri-colour icon (red-yellow-green) on the bottom tool bar of the Windows Desk Top Menu. 1--Position what you want scanned on the scanner glass with the top edge of the picture at the end of the scanner where it opens. 2-Click on the tri-colour icon 3-On the next menu, click on the upper tool bar which starts at the left side with a symbol of a page with its corner turned over. The "icon" or symbol you want is the 4th. from the left which is indistinctly a small picture of a scanner. Click on it. 4-Click on the blue sign which reads Settings to the left of the menu. 5-Click on ImageType on the pop-up menu. 6-Click on Grayscale or Color (Photos) or Color (Documents) or Text, depending on what you are scanning in. On my set up the Black and White setting is ignored as it gives blurry lines. I use Grayscale for line drawings. 7-Click on Preview. 8-After the preliminary scanning is complete, you will see your scanned material on the computer screen. 9-"Crop" it using the "handles" like those you are familiar with from PageBuilder. They appear when the pointer is placed over the scanned image on the screen. 10-Click Scan (in blue). 11-A picture of the cropped and scanned image now appears on the screen. If you DON'T like it, click on the tiny x in a tiny box at the upper right of your scanned image. The pop-up window will ask you if you want to save it. Click NO. That takes you back to the beginning of the procedure. 12-If you DO like the image, click File on the top horizontal tool bar above the tool bar used in step 3 above. 13-Click Save As... on the pop-up menu. 14-In the File name: box delete the lettering which is there and put in your own title for your picture. It must consist of continuous numbers/letters/characters. No blank spaces are allowed in a title name. 15-To the right of the Save as type: box, click the tiny solid down-arrow. 16-On the pop-up menu, click Jpeg File. 17--Click Save. 18-Click the tiny x in the tiny box at the far upper right of the screen to take you back to Windows Desk Top Menu. |
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| TO UPLOAD THE SCAN FROM YOUR PC TO A WEB SITE: 1-Open new web page or one you are already working on. 2-Click on Pictures icon from the top tool bar. 3-Click on the Upload button on the pop-up menu. 4-Click on the top Browse button on the next pop-up menu. 5-Click on My Documents on the next pop-up menu. 6-Click on My Pictures on the next pop-up menu. 7-The title of your scan from 14 above will appear. Do a quick double click on it. 8-The next pop-up window gives the title of your scan with a Browse button to the right of it. Click on the Upload button at the bottom of that window. 9-The next pop-up gives the title again and says IT HAS BEEN UPLOADED. OK it asks? Click OK. 10-Under the Picture List on the next pop-up single click User Files which will highlight it. Then give it a quick double click. The title of your uploaded scan will appear. 11-Single click on that title and the scan will appear in the Picture Window box. 12-Click OK box at the bottom of the pop-up to put the scan on the web page. 13-Click on the scan to open it as a picture box with handles. 14-Use "handles" as usual to locate and size it according to how you want it used on your web page. |
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