Re: Photo Scanners

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

I agree with Duane.

One more point, get a flatbed scanner so as to cause less damage to the old 
photos being scanned. You put the photo on the glass (upside down) and scan 
it. I have also scanned fresh ferns and pansies this way with wonderful 
results.

Some scanners come bundled with good photo editing software such as 
Photoshop Elements.

I have an old HP 4070 flatbed. Not only can it scan photos at a broad range 
of sizes, it does slides just as well as a home-use dedicated slide scanner 
I used to use. It has a photocopy setting. And it came with Optical 
Character Recognition which digitizes text and allows it to be edited, 
reformatted, and so on.

Best wishes,

Betty Mackey
www.mackeybooks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp@chilitech.net>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <AldieOaks@aol.com>
>
>> At this point, personal use, but after I finish the personal family
>> project
>> I'm working on, it could possibly roll over to publication at some point.
>
> You can get a perfectly good scanner/printer  for personal use in the
> neighborhood of fifty bucks, may less. The scanner is probably better than
> the printer. I can think of only very rare occasions where you would send 
> a
> scanned image to a publisher, and then the quality would depend more on 
> the
> original than on the scanner.Get a home use HP or Lexmark and get going.
>
> D 

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