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Scanning 12x12 Layouts
for the Internet
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Scanning 12 x 12
pages with Adobe
by Cara Stroud
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I usually stitch my stuff with iPhoto Express*, because they
have a stitching feature, but I was curious about my Adobe, so I
tried it out. I needed to print my layouts with my
printer, so I made all the heights of my scans 8", so they
would be consistent when I went to match them up. If this
is not a concern for you, just make sure you pick a consistent
height
for each scan, so they will match up. I spent DAYS
learning how to do this, and came up with a more time efficient
way to do all this, so....
I have an HP Scanjet, but they should be similar. I do not
scan from Adobe, but go directly through my scanner, it is much
faster!! If all you are going to do is send them over the
web, scan in 72 dpi, otherwise it will take too long to download
on the other side (on the 'net, everything is 72 dpi). If
I am going to print it out, I do it in 300 dpi. Before you
scan, set dpi, and set the page height (or as soon as scanning
program lets
you). Get page on scanner, either side, as straight as
possible (I found it is so much easier to do all this with the
pages out of the book).
Scan 1st side, and then save (I use say, TreeL1, and then
TreeL2, TreeR1 and TreeR2, for a two page layout). Just
try one page first, but when I am doing a bunch, I scan and save
all of them, and then open them in Adobe and stitch all of them.
Anyway, then scan the other side(TreeL2). When I
scan, my scanner "outlines" different areas. I
clear those outlines, and then, using the cropping tool, (on the
second scan) to outline only what I have not scanned with the
first scan (TreeL1), with a little overlap, so I can match them
later. Save the second scan(make sure it is the same
height!). Open Adobe.
Open the first scan, and then hit file, and then send to, and
then Hold Photo(put it in the little hold area that is on the
left of your screen). Close the first window, and then
open up the second scan(TreeL2). The go to Advanced button
on Adobe, and then Size. Click on Canvas Size.
Depending on the height you have made your scan, change the
canvas size to make a square (like your page), mine would be
8x8. After the canvas size changes, your second scan will
be in the middle. Drag it over to the right, so it will be
in the right place when you add the other half. Drag the first
scan over from Hold Photo, and put it as close as you can to
where it is supposed to go.
Once it is done getting settled, zoom in close, where the two
scans match, and the drag one side or the other until they match
up. Sometimes, it will not match up to everything just
right, you will have little shadows (I always make sure to pick
a part of my layout that has no photo, or at least no face, for
the seam to be because they(photos or faces) are harder to
repair). If I have some shadows, I go to the repair
feature, and use the clone tool to clean it up. Once it is
just how I want it, I save it as TreeL(eft) W(hole).
I can later go back into file and delete the L1 and L2 scans,
once I have the whole one saved. Now, when you change the
canvas size, you can leave some extra space around the edges to
make it easier the first few times you try all this.
*The newest
version of iPhoto Express does not have the stitching feature.
Someone just posted on the BB that they got the older version of
it at insight.com, and used the search feature to find it.
I hope this helps everyone, and I highly recommend the iPhoto
Express program by Ulead (www.ulead.com
). Their stitch feature is so easy I was stitching my
pages in 30 minutes. I have heard that you can get this at
Office Max bundled with a graphics program also. Hope this
helps everyone
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| Scanning 12 x 12 pages
with Paint Shop Pro |
| Go to the JASC website
( http://www.jasc.com I think)
and download Paint Shop Pro. They have a free trial version. If
you like it you can buy it from JASC for $99 but I found it
locally for $69 in a store (with manuals.)
My scanner has a long enough bed to
scan the 12 inch long pages in one pass. If your scanner does
not do this, you will want to read Cara's description of how to
scan the page in four sections.
Open Paint Shop Pro. Pull down the
file menu, go to import Twain then acquire to scan. Scan the
right side of the page with the page as straight as you can and
scan the left side with the page as straight as you can. Be sure
to use the edges of the scanner to align the pages and have the
pages out of your album for optimum scanning. Use the View pull
down and go to Image Information to see how big the scanned
image is. For example a scan I did measures 678 by 916 pixels.
Next open a new image (with a white or transparent background)
large enough to hole the 2 halves (so for the image mentioned
above make the new image 1300 by 1000 pixels- it will be too big
but that is more desirable than too small.) (each half will be a
separate image after scanning) Copy the right half and paste it
into the new image, copy the left half and paste it into the new
image carefully lining up elements on the page . The scans will
overlap, but the overlap helps you line it all up. After you are
done with that choose the rectangle shaped selection
tool from the tool bar. select the page only leaving the rest of
the background out side of the selection box and go to the Image
Pull Down and choose Crop To Selection. Save the image as a jpg/jpeg
and you are all set. |
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