How to Scan for Web Pages and Email This tutorial helps you scan and create small files which display well on computer screens, but do not print out very well. The quality will be equivalent to most of the things printed off the web. These files can easily be saved onto a floppy disk and or sent over email. The main applications for this type of scanning are PowerPoint, email, and web pages.
Prepare to Scan
1. Place item(s) face down in the scanner.
2. Open Photoshop in the Start Menu in the lower left corner of your computer screen.
3. Click on the File tab in the upper-left corner of Photoshop and move your mouse down the menu list to Import. Another menu will appear with a list of scanners; select HP Scanjet 4570c/5500c #2…
4. Everything highlighted in the dotted outline will be scanned (Figure 2: Item 1). You can crop or
expand the selected area by moving your mouse over one of the black boxes which borders the dotted line. Click and Hold your Left Mouse Button to move the black box and change the highlighted area. Release the mouse button to make your change to the highlighted area.
5. Click on the Accept icon at the bottom of the preview window (Figure 2: Item 2).
6. Your image should be scanned and then displayed in Photoshop.
Figure 2. HP Scanning window. 1:Selected area, 2: Accept button.
7. Click on the File menu item in the upper-left corner
of Photoshop and move your mouse down the menu list to Save for Web (Figure 3).
8. Look over the menu on the right side of the screen. You can adjust the size and decide the
type of file your image will be saved as.
Figure 4. Save for Web details. 1: Image format, 2: Quality level, 3: Image size, 4: Apply.
9. The most appropriate format for a scanned image is JPEG which you can select under the Settings portion of the menu (Figure 4: Item 1).
10. You may also adjust the quality of the image, using a scale of 0 to 100 (Figure 4: Item 2). The higher the image quality, the larger the image. When you change this value, the image on the left is updated to reflect the quality selected. For most purposes, the default value of 60 is appropriate.
11. A good image size is 700 pixels for the longest edge of your image. Simply change Width or Height (whichever one is larger) to 700 under the New Size portion of the menu (Figure 4: Item 3). You must click on Apply (Figure 4: Item 4) just below the size menu to complete the change. If you want a smaller image, you can make this value smaller.
