I have some beautiful print photos that I would like to share over email. I have scanned on my "all in one" scanner but it scans the whole bed, not just the photograph. I simply cannot figure out how to crop the photo. There must be a simple way and I simply can't figure it out. I appreciate any advice.
I have Windows XP Professional Edition. When I tried to edit my scanned photos, Paint.net opens. Cropping is "shaded out". Is there another application I can use do crop?
I don't know how to do it but I'll bet you'll get a million answers. If not those people in Walgreen's camera shops are geniuses. They might know.
You can go to www.pixlr.com (I think) and crop your photo there. It is a free website that lets you edit and save your photos without downloading any software.
There may be a setting somewhere in your scanner softwar to only scan the size of the item detected and not the whole scanner bed.
Let me know if you still can't get it cropped and I can help you.
were the photos originally taken with traditional film or digitally? If they were digital, I'd recommend finding the original source of the photos and uploading them into your computer and using one of the programs on your computer to crop them.
If not, there's a program in Windows called a Snipping Tool. It should allow you to pull up the jpeg of the photo you scanned, and you basically drag the snipping tool to the desired size you want to crop.
You then can save it as a jpeg and upload into FB, etc.
Hope that helps.
Hi G S,
I think you need to adjust the frame before you scan. Try to see an option to adjust the frame to the size of the photograph and put it over the picture and scan. See if it works.
S.
Go to All Programs, MS Office, MS Office Tools, MS Office Picture Manager, choose Edit Pictures, choose crop.
Choose to Save As. Best of luck!
Do you have Microsoft Publisher? If so, you can insert your picture, then crop it with their tool- works great! I do this all the time. OR another great option would be to use the website http://www.picnik.com - you can crop, rotate, fix colors, and do all sorts of COOL things there. And it's free!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this site! Hope these ideas help!
Update- I just tried it, and you can also use MS Word, insert picture and then in the picture tool bar there's the crop tool. Sounds like other people are giving you great ideas, too. :) Good luck!
MS Office includes a simple photo editor called "Picture Editor." Look for it in your Office menu.
If not, there are some inexpensive options under $100. At work I use SnagIt, which is technically for screen capture, but it works great for simple image editing. Free download to try it out, too: http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp?gclid=CMbNj9P...
Also, you could try Digital Image Pro or adobe's low-end photoshop-type editor (I think it's called Premier?)
Here's a list of free editors from About.com with reviews: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pixelbasedwin/tp/freepho...
On my Kodak 3-in-1, next to the "Scan Now" button is a "preview" button ... when I click on that, it gives me an image of the whole bed that I can crop so that when I hit the "next" button, it will actually scan just the area I cropped. HTH!
I have the same problem with my scanner. The pictures are too big or small for me to do anything with (too big for an email or too small to see). This happens with pictures others give me since my scanner also has the slots for the cards from my camera and I can edit those myself using the software from the scanner. One thing I am able to do is load them as jpeg and then go to Shutterfly and crop or other editing there. Then I can give the link to friends so they can view a lot of pictures--free. This also saves their memory/inbox storage. I have been told that picture software would help but my computer is a royal pain and don't want to load more stuff at this point.
I create new Microsoft word document. I add the picture into my word document (insert object) and then adjust the picture as part of the word document.
C.
