i dont know how to explain so i will try the best i can..
when i scan a photo onto my computer and save it there is the background of the printer and the photo is far away. how can i fix this. i dont have any photo software, and i dont know how to crop photos.
please help me if you can
2007-05-17 11:35:03 · 3 answers · asked by ♫Country Girl♪ 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Scanners
I don't know what kind of scanner or scanner software you are using, but usually (HP and Canon in my experience) there is an option to do a "smart detect" of the actual image edges and when you save it will crop to that detected edge.
That said, the automatic detection is usually poor. Get a shareware photo editor like "XnView" - it is free and will allow you to crop, resize, etc
2007-05-17 13:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by TahoeT 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
scanners come with software that should allow you to detect the actual object or manually adjust your scanning area. What's happening is the scanner is scanning the entire scanning bed, not the photo.
Another thing you want to do is size the scan for the output. For example, if you're wanting to print the picture at 5x7, then there should be an adjustment in the scanner software to do that.
If you can't find your scanner software, Irfanview has a scanning dialog built into its image catalog program.
2007-05-17 23:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by dubbarob 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
don't sweat on this.
open your Windows Paint program (Start>Accessories>Paint). Open the document, click the rectangular crop selector tool (dotted rectangular icon on the left sidebar), your cursor will change to a crosshair, click (and hold) the top leftmost part of the image and drag to lower rightmost part of the image and release click (thereby enclosing the image). right-click the selection and choose Copy To, and save.
Paint operates in bitmap only so you have to save your scans in bitmap format. just convert the the cropped image to format of your desire.
2007-05-19 11:11:48 · answer #3 · answered by Josh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋