Scanners

Rohde, Russell A., PSA Journal

Having purchased a PC or Mac with a color monitor and a paint program such as Photoshop, you ascend rungs of a learning curve beset with emotional ups and downs, and enlightenment follows discovery of two trusty friends: the User's Guide and the Tutorial of instructive exercises. Wow! Those freezes, bombs, crashes, and seeming failure of paint tools to follow your commands diminish alongside fears of having bought a faulty computer!

Now, obsessed to digitize your images, not someone else's, you find the shortest path between a picture and a computer is a digital camera (too costly) and the longest path is via CD-ROM. Midway, is to scan your prints or slides via digital scanner. …

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Publication information: Article title: Scanners. Contributors: Rohde, Russell A. - Author. Magazine title: PSA Journal. Volume: 61. Issue: 9 Publication date: September 1995. Page number: 10. © 2008 Photographic Society of America, Inc. COPYRIGHT 1995 Gale Group.

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