If you are an artist of any kind, a scanner can contribute to your work.

By creating your own personal designs on a flatbed scanner you can avoid having your work look obviously derived from clip art or stock photos. But it takes a professional color management scanner software to produce professional results. For this reason we recommend LinoColor from Heidelberg, Germany's leading pre-press and color management company. The image here was scanned with LinoColor software on a Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra2 flatbed scanner.

Easiest place to find innovative designs is to get indigenous art or native handicrafts. Little straw designs like the star here are made and sold by people in many different countries.

Even though I have seven cameras (including two digital cameras) it is often easier to scan an object on a flatbed scanner.

Once you have such an image scanned, you can multiply it by re coloring it or by running it through software by Kai Krause.

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• Updated: May 26, 2004
  Redesign May. 2004. Previously updated Jan. 12, 2004. Page first posted circa 2000-2001.