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 | The following images were scanned using a Mustek Twainscan 600 USB
flatbed colour scanner, which I purchased on 20 Feb 1999 for RM380. Take a look also at a few scans I did of colour slides using the transparency adapter. |
  
| The Mustek Twainscan 600 USB is so easy to setup - since it uses the USB port, all you
need to do is connect it to the PC, and switch it on, and Win98 auto-detects its presence.
In fact, you can connect it while it's switched on. |
| It is surprisingly quiet during scanning operations. It may take upto 50 secs. to warm
up, but after that, it's pretty fast to scan. |
| The graphics scanning software provided, is tightly integrated with the editing software
by Ulead called iPhoto Plus 4. Pre-scans show up
clearly and you can zoom in to select parts of the photo to scan. Descreening is possible,
and exposure is set automatically (and quite well done, too).
 | I usually scan at the highest resolution first, in 24-bit colour, and target a file size
of between 5 to 10 MB. |
| Once inside iPhoto Plus 4, cropping and flipping the image is easily done. But the best
part is retouching the photographs. I love the 'Clone' paint feature, which allows you to
repaint scenes that have spots or dirt marks with parts of the picture that contains a
'clean' scene. It's like a copy & paste painting brush. It's brilliant because it
maintains the texture or tone of the scene, esp. for complex surfaces like skin or sky. |
| After all that retouching, I would save the image in .JPG format, reducing it to an
average of 260KB for a picture size of at least 1000 x 1000 pixels. Then, if I wanted to
use the same image for the web, I would resize it to about 300 pixels in width or height,
and the file size would drop to around 20KB. |
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| This package also contains an OCR, which is Textbridge Classic 1.1 by Xerox. This is a simple but accurate OCR, and I found that
it handled most documents very well, except complicated layouts or unclear prints. |
| All in all, I am very satisfied with the Mustek Twainscan 600 USB. |
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