Part 1: When to Use iPhoto Plus 1.2

Part 2: A Sample Scan with iPhoto Plus 1.2

Part 3: After the Scan: Saving, Printing, Re-Sizing

Part 1: When to Use iPhoto Plus 1.2

iPhoto Plus 1.2 is an image editing program ideal for scanning pictures or making photocopies of important documents. Once a picture or document has been scanned, it can then be saved for later retrieval, printed out, or used with other programs, such as sending a picture along with an e-mail.

Part 2: A Sample Scan with iPhoto Plus 1.2

1. Start the program by clicking on the iPhoto Plus 1.2 icon, which resembles an eye. This icon is usually located in an iPhoto Plus program group or in a program group corresponding to the name of the scanner (i.e. Mustek 1200 III EP). On some occasions, the program will minimize itself on the taskbar before opening. Click the icon on the taskbar to open the program.
2. iPhoto Plus opens with a splash screen featuring a colorful ladybug and a tube of paint. Click this picture to clear it from the center of the program screen.
3. Click on the File menu and choose Select Source. The Select Source dialog box will appear listing all TWAIN-compliant devices in the system. Click and highlight the name of the scanner being used and then click the Select button. The Select Source dialog box will disappear.
4. Click on the File menu again and select Acquire. This will display the TWAIN interface for the scanner which features scanner settings on the left, and a preview window on the right.
5. Open the lid of the scanner and insert the item to be scanned. It should be placed face down on the glass, lined up with the right-hand corner of the bed.
6. Close the lid of the scanner and click the Prescan button on the Scanner Settings screen. The scanner will make a pass and display a preview version of the image in the preview window.
7. Along with the preview image, the preview window will also contain a dotted line box known as the crop frame. The crop frame determines what exactly will be scanned, and only those items within the frame will be scanned.
8. Most of the scanner drivers will adjust the crop frame to the edges of the image, but it can be adjusted further simply by placing the mouse cursor on the edge of the frame until the cursor becomes a double-ended arrow. Once the cursor has the two ends, click and hold down the mouse button and drag the side of the frame up/down or left/right until it lines up with the edge of the image. Repeat this until all four sides of the frame are lined up with the edges of the image.
9. Click the Scan Mode button on the scanner settings window and choose a setting:

• Color is for color images from photographs, books, or magazines.
• Gray is for black and white photographs, for color items made to look black and white, or for drawings and patterns employing shading and texture.
• Line Art is for black and white text or drawings that have no shading or texture. They are pure black or white.

10. Click the Resolution button on the Scanner Settings window and choose a resolution in dots per inch (dpi) for this scan. Some resolution tips:

• Color images should be scanned at 72-100 dpi for the majority of general uses such as wallpaper, e-mail and web pages. For high-quality printing, they can be scanned at 150-250 dpi.
• Gray images should be scanned at 72-100 dpi for uses such as wallpaper, e-mail and web pages. They can be scanned at 150-300 dpi for most high quality printing, and in some cases the dpi can be as high as the maximum grayscale resolution of the printer, usually around 600 dpi.
• Line Art images should be scanned at 300 dpi for sharp reproductions of drawings and text documents.

11. With the scan settings selected, click the Scan button. The scanner will now scan the image into the iPhoto Plus 1.2 program.
12. Once the scanner has completed its scan, click the Close or Exit button on the TWAIN interface. As the TWAIN interface closes, the completed scan will be shown in the center of the iPhoto Plus 1.2 screen in a window labeled "Untitled."
13. This finished image can now be printed, re-sized, saved or edited with the iPhoto Plus 1.2 tools.

Part 3: After the Scan: Saving, Printing, Re-Sizing

Once an image is scanned, image editing programs such as iPhoto Plus 1.2 can be used to manipulate the image. The Tool icons on the left-hand side of the iPhoto Plus 1.2 screen are used to paint new colors on an image, select areas of an image, or add text to an image. The Tools are explained in detail under the Help menu. Click on Help and select Tools to see a full description of what the Tools do.

Along with image manipulation, the other common tasks performed by iPhoto Plus 1.2 are saving images, printing images and re-sizing images.

1. With the image in the "Untitled" window, click on the File menu and select Save As.
2. The Save Image dialog box will appear.
   
   
   The first selection is File Extension, which refers to the type of graphic file the image will be saved as. Clicking on the down arrow displays a list of all of the formats available for the image being saved. Each type of format offers different features and compatibility with different applications. It is important to choose the type that best suits the purpose of the image.

• TIF – Also known as a tagged image format, TIFs are the most common type of image file format. Images created with scanners are usually defaulted to a TIF. RGB True Color images can be saved in the TIF format. TIFs can also be compressed to save disk space.
• TGA – This is a format created for TrueVision video cards. TGA should be used in systems with a TrueVision compatible video display.
• BMP – BMP is short for Windows Bitmap. Bitmaps are the images commonly used by Windows applications, such as desktop wallpaper. BMP should be used when creating images for use in Windows applications, such as Word, Paint or making wallpaper.
• EPS – EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript. EPS images are device-independent, meaning they can be printed or displayed on a variety of systems.
• PCX – The PCX format is used by certain PC painting programs, such as PC Paintbrush.
• GIF – GIFs are device-independent images commonly used for web pages. GIF images use only 256 colors, but they can be compressed to save disk space.
• JPG – The JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) image format is very popular for use on web pages and for sending images as attachments with e-mail. JPG images are device-independent with adjustable compression ratios up to 100:1.

3. The next choice is Filename. The Filename dialog box is where the image is named so that it may be retrieved at a later date. The Filename box contains a placeholder which has an asterisk followed by a period and the three-letter graphic file extension that was chosen in step two. The asterisk is a "wildcard," meaning that it is simply taking the place of the name that will be typed in.
   
   The filename itself can be anything that describes the image or is easy to remember. There are two rules to naming images with iPhoto Plus 1.2:

1. The name must be eight characters or less, no spaces.
2. The name cannot contain punctuation marks like commas, periods, colons, apostrophes, etc.

Typing the filename: place the cursor behind the placeholder (i.e. *.tif) and use the backspace key to erase the placeholder and then type in the new filename. It is not necessary to type the file extension (.tif) because the program will insert it automatically.

4. The final piece of information needed to save a file is the location the file will be saved to. Under the filename box, the selected directory will be displayed. The default setting is C:\. In the right-hand corner, there is a list of directories available in the system.
   
   A directory, or folder, is simply a designated area where files of certain types are stored. Most programs have their own folders. It is important to remember that C:\ is the letter of a drive while C:\WINDOWS is the name of a folder, which is on the C:\ drive.
   
   The most common error made when saving files is not remembering where they are saved to, and then having difficulty locating the file in the Windows Explorer or File Manager. It is best to always make a note of the directory the file is being saved to, or create a directory specifically for scanned images.
   
   To choose a directory other than the default, simply double-click on the name of the directory and it will become the one listed under the filename. It is often necessary to re-enter the filename after changing the directory.
5. Click the Save button. If everything is correct, the filename will replace the "Untitled" above the image. If something is amiss, such as a filename containing too many characters, the program will return an error message and the filename will have to be re-entered.

Special Note: When saving to a floppy disk, remember that a typical floppy can hold only 1.4 MB or less. Images scanned at high resolutions usually will be too large to fit on a floppy without using compression. Scanning images at lower resolutions, like 72-100 dpi, will keep the file size down and allow the image to be saved to a floppy disk.

1. With the image displayed in the iPhoto Plus 1.2 window, click on File and select Print. This will bring up the Print Image dialog box, which contains the print options.
   
2. Make certain that the correct printer is shown at the top of the Print Image window. If not, click on Cancel and then select Printer Setup from the File menu. Select the correct printer from the list, click OK and choose File and Print again.
3. Type in the number of printed copies desired. One copy is the default setting.
4. iPhoto Plus 1.2 is set to print out the image in the upper left-hand corner of the page by default. The Print Image window presents several options for printing:

• Scale to Fit Page – iPhoto Plus 1.2 will automatically re-size the item to fit within the margins of the page. Use caution as low resolution images may look jagged when stretched and high resolution images will take longer to print because of their size.
• Center the Image Horizontally – This will align the image in the center of the page horizontally (left to right).
• Center the Image Vertically – This will align the image in the center of the page vertically (up and down). Click both Horizontally and Vertically and the image will be printed in the center of the page.
• Start from Top Left Corner – Entering the values in inches into the Top and Left boxes instructs iPhoto Plus 1.2 to begin printing at a specified distance from the top and left.

5. Once everything is set, click Print to send the image to the printer. It takes a few moments for most printers to print a picture.

Re-Sizing an Image

A common misconception is the difference between the size of an image on the screen, and the actual size of the image. The main reason for this is the way image editing programs display images and compensate for certain resolutions.

Most monitors have a resolution of 75 dpi. If an image created at a larger resolution, say 300 dpi, is displayed, the limitation of the monitor makes the image appear larger than it really is.

Image editing programs such as iPhoto Plus 1.2 deal with this problem by displaying the new image within a window in the image editing program, allowing the user to see the entire picture at once without having to scroll the screen. If this image is larger than the size of the window, the program labels the window with a size percentage or ratio. For instance, an image may have ¼x alongside the name, meaning that this image is being displayed at one-quarter of the actual size. Using the Zoom tool, the display size can be changed until the image is 1x or actual size.

The common mistake often made is the thought that if 1x is actual size, then 2x must be twice as large. This is true for on the screen, but when printed, the image is still the original size. The same mistake is made with resolution. Because 300 dpi appears larger on the 75 dpi display, it is often thought that it will print larger. A printer, usually able to handle higher resolutions, will print it at the original size, just of a better quality.

The actual size of an image is reflected in pixels, inches or centimeters, and the way to change it is as follows:

1. iPhoto Plus 1.2 uses pixels, inches or centimeters to describe the dimensions of an image. Pixels are the default setting. To choose inches or centimeters instead of pixels, follow these steps:

1. Click on File and select Preferences.
2. In the Preferences window, locate Unit of Measure near the top center. Click on the down arrow to choose from Inch or Cm (centimeters). Once the desired measurement is chosen, click OK to set it as the default.

2. With the default now set, to re-size an image on the screen, click on the Edit menu and choose Resample.
3. The Resample Image dialog box will now appear.
   
   
   The top half of the window shows the actual size of the image in inches, pixels or centimeters (depending on what was chosen in step one). The lower half of the window is labeled New Image and has a box for width and height. The New Image defaults the width and height to 100 with the value being Percent, therefore the image is 100% or actual size.
4. The Resample Image window also has an option in the center called Keep Aspect Ratio, which is checked as a default. This function keeps the image from being stretched or distorted when the size is changed. Basically, it will adjust the dimensions of the width or height in respect to the value being changed. For instance, if the width is changed by half, the height will be changed accordingly, and vice versa.
   
   There are two ways to change the image size:

• By Percentage – To change the image size by percentage, simply click on either height or width and type in a new percentage. For half of the original size, change the percentage to 50. For twice the original size, change the percentage to 200, etc.
• By Exact Value – To change the image size to a specific value of either pixels, inches or centimeters, first click on the down arrow next to Percentage. With Percentage highlighted, type the letter on the keyboard corresponding to the type of measurement selected in step one. For pixels, type a "P", for inches an "I", and for centimeters a "C".