How do I get rid of the white background when I scan pictures.?

Question

I'm new to scanners and i'm having trouble when I scan a picture it's always small with a big white background.How do I make it a descent size with out the white background.It looks like a white jigsaw puzzle with my picture and missing pieces.

Answer 1

make sure you are scanning at 300 dpi at least.
instead of pressing scan, press preview
after the whole scan shows up, drag the selector around the picture only, and then press scan. save to desktop.

Answer 2

If your scanner has a 'Preview' option, use it first. That will crop the pic to take out all the white. Then clk Scan.
The white you see is the entire scanner bed. Preview should crop so it only scans the pic.
If this doesn't help, repost the question and say what kind of scanner you are using.

Answer 3

you can edit it, and depending on what scanner you got, it may come with a program that does that by itself, my scanner came with a program where it would cut out everything that was white, and only save the little bit I drew, sooo
you can use a program like
MS Paint - simple - free (or should come with your computer if not ... sad)

Macromedia Flash - a little hard - $600 or $100 for education does animation make movies, make games (really hard to do) and can do lots

Coral Photo Paint 8 - basic and expert - don't know the price sorry can do lots of things, color things, dripping paint effects fuzz effects and a trillion others also does animation, but takes up way more memory on your computer than Flash

Answer 4

You can edit out the background using something like Paint.net (www.getpaint.net). You just need to crop the image down to size with a square crop tool, and then if you want the bits around it cropped too, just use the custom crop shape tool (in MS Paint it looks like a star).

Answer 5

Cropping is the answer. It's quite possible the program your using has a setting to "auto-crop" that just got turned off.

Answer 6

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