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FIGURE 16-11 A customized card for a clown with a photo cutout as a logo Printing Your Business Cards To print business cards properly and efficiently, you need good business-card stock. Avery is one manufacturer that makes printable business cards. Depending on which color and style you select, the cost is about $12 to $15 for 100 cards. Printing on business-card stock is a procedure similar to printing on labels. You must properly center the text and graphics on each card. PhotoSuite allows you to select a print option that corresponds to the Avery business-card size. Avery is a popular manufacturer of stationery products that supplies product lines to most major office supply stores. Make Your Own Logo It’s very convenient to have a logo, saved to an image file that you can import into newsletters, business cards, websites, stationery, and other communications. 304 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Use Your Photograph as a Logo Image-editing software allows you to create your own logo from a scanned photograph by cropping the portion you want from the photo. For example, Figure 16-11 uses a scanned photograph of a clown that has been cut out and saved as a logo for stationery and business cards. Chapter 10 discusses cutting and cropping tools in image-editing software. Adopt a Logo from a Prop Database You can also “adopt” a logo from a prop database, which you might find in your image- editing software or on a clip-art CD at your local office supply store. Figure 16-12 shows a sampling of the images included in the PhotoSuite props database that can be used for logos. FIGURE 16-12 Some PhotoSuite props that make interesting logos CHAPTER 16: Communicating Through Scanned Photos 305 16 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. To access the PhotoSuite props database, follow the instructions provided in Chapter 14. Import a Logo into a Microsoft Word Document To import a logo image and make it the correct size for a particular project you’re creating in Microsoft Word, follow these steps: 1. To open the image file containing the logo, go to the Insert menu and choose Picture, then From File. In the dialog box that appears, browse for and open the image file you want. 2. Right-click the logo, and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The Format Picture dialog box appears, displaying a representation of your photo. Click the Size tab, and adjust the height and width of the logo, as shown in Figure 16-13. 3. Click OK to close the dialog box, and use your mouse to drag and position your logo to the correct spot within your project. Promotional Fliers and Brochures Brochures and fliers give clients specific information about you and your services that they can retain and read at their leisure. Scanning technology allows you to add the impact of graphics to this valuable communication medium. Designing Highly Professional Flyers Fliers are not limited to informal communication and advertising. In fact, they can be highly polished pieces, and more dignified in appearance than glossy brochures. Fliers have several other advantages over brochures: ■ Fliers are far easier than brochures to design and lay out because you don’t have to worry about a multiple-panel format. ■ An entire 8 1 ⁄2-by-11-inch page is viewed at once, as opposed to a folded brochure. ■ Graphic images can be larger and have more impact. 306 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. FIGURE 16-13 Resize your logo in a Microsoft Word document using this dialog box. Your image-editing program might contain templates for designing fliers, but this is one project in which such a template can be a disadvantage. Flyers often contain a lot of text, and your image-editing program is designed only for editing images, not text. Depending on how much text you decide to include in your flier, you might be better off importing your scanned images into a Microsoft Word document. Microsoft Word offers far more text-editing capabilities than any image-editing software. Adjust width of logoAdjust height of logo CHAPTER 16: Communicating Through Scanned Photos 307 16 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. On the other hand, if you’re aiming for a high-impact flier with eye-catching graphics and little text, your image editor might be a better choice. The flier shown in Figure 16-14 was created using a PhotoSuite template, and contains very little text, so Microsoft Word’s capabilities were not needed. FIGURE 16-14 A PhotoSuite flier containing mostly graphics 308 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. . convenient to have a logo, saved to an image file that you can import into newsletters, business cards, websites, stationery, and other communications. 304 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Please. impact. 306 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. FIGURE 16-13 Resize your logo in a Microsoft Word document using. your photo. Click the Size tab, and adjust the height and width of the logo, as shown in Figure 16-13. 3. Click OK to close the dialog box, and use your mouse to drag and position your logo to