Scanning Pictures

The Microsoft engineers have fancy phrases for even the simplest activities. What you or I would call "scanning a picture," the engineers call a "scan event." (They call the act of connecting a digital camera to your PC a "connect event.")

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If you don't like the preview scan, reposition the item on your scanner and click the Preview button to start a new scan.

Well, when Windows senses a scan event that is, when you start a scan it launches the Scanner and Camera Wizard. As you can see in Figure 13.2, the scanner part of this wizard lets you control how your picture is scanned. All you have to do is follow these steps:

1.	Select one of the Picture Type options: Color Picture, Grayscale Picture, Black and White Picture or Text, or Custom.
2.	Click the Preview button; the wizard now displays a preview of what you're scanning.
3.	If you want to crop the item you're scanning, use the handles around the preview area to crop to a smaller area.
4.	If you like what you see, click the Next button, then enter the name, file format, and location for this group of scans.
5.	Click the Next button to complete the scan.
6.	When the next screen appears, select Nothing if you're done with this scan, then click Next.
7.	Click Finish to exit the wizard.

Figure 13.2. Using Windows XP to scan a photograph preview your scan before you accept it.