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scanning 12'x12' album pages

24 years ago

Has somebody a tip to scan properly 12"x12" pages with a standart scanner to put on the web? I tried to scan twice half a page, but it is difficult then to have them match on display. Does somedy know a photo software able to do that ? or a specific way to display them on the page ?

Thanks for your help

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Hilary
24 years ago
The only way I know of getting the 12x12 pages on the web is making a color copy of it first - reducing the image at the same time. Then it fits on a standard scanner. Good Luck.
Carrie
24 years ago
Joelle, thanks for asking this question. I have been wandering this very same thing. I have a Family web site that I use to keep in touch with relatives out of state. I post recent pics of the kids and what they have been doing in school, scouts, etc. I would like to post them as memory pages but like you said, it is too hard to try and scan half at a time and then try and match them up.

Hillary, I had not thought about making a color copy and reducing the size. Thanks!
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Yes, I asked the question on this forum I don't remember exactly when (maybe at the beginning of the year) and that is a kind of answer. You need to scan your layout half by half with a little area in common. If you want to print your page, you need abour 300 dpi resolution, if you just want to display on a screen, 150 dpi are enough! Then, once your 2 parts are scanned, you need to use a software like Photofinish or AdobePhotoDeluxe. You open the 2 pictures and one more empty. Then you copy each part in the empty one and adjust one part on the other. With Photofinish I just do that using the "magnifying -glass" function, but I think that some software have a special "stitch" function. Sometimes the 2 parts of the picture have not exactly the same color and you have to adjust the brightness before to "stitch" them. It is not very difficult, it may be time consuming if your processor is not rapid enough or if you have not enough memory! At last, you use the "crop function" to remove some extra part you don't want to keep, and the "resize function" to adjust the size. The last thing to do is to save the picture in the right format. I hope this will help you, and that my poor english is OK to be understood :-) Joelle from Lyon, France You can see some of my page on my site! Here is a link that might be useful: La page du Scrapbook'coeur
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I do this all the time. The secret is to use a software program that has a "stitch" feature. One of my scanners came with a NewSoft Presto! software package that works great. You just scan the two sides of the page (in preview scan, pick a point on the page where the two sides will meet, just slightly overlapped)and open both at the same time in the Stitch window. You indicate which is the right and which is the left side. The software then positions a little box at the edge of the left side and you drag the image in that box over to the right side and line it up and click - the two sides will be joined at that alignment.

Another software package that came with my Epson Digital Camera just has you drag and drop files side by side into a grid and it will do all of the pattern matching automatically. It is really designed to merge photographs into panoramic views, but works on any .JPG file. It's calle ImageExpert.

My "stitched" files are all I used on my scrapbook website

HTH

Here is a link that might be useful: Sue's Place - My Virtual Scrapbook
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Original Author
24 years ago
Thank you Sue for your informations. In fact, I spent almost the whole day today, trying with PhotoFinish, and finally I found the way to do. There is not a "stich" feature, (or I didn't find it), but I managed to do what I wanted to. Maybe it is less neat than on your pages, but it 's hundred times better that what I did before.
Wow to your site, it is great. I am working on improving mine, because the pictures don't satisfy me and I think the nex release will be on line under a couple of days.
bye
Deb
24 years ago
Joelle,I just found this site that might help.

Here is a link that might be useful: scanning 12x12 pages

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