Scanning to PC.

[711]

I have a magazine with A4 size single pages. I wish to scan the centrefold which is, of course, a double A4 sheet. My scanner can only scan one A4 sheet at a time. Is there any way of combining two scans, or any other way I can get a scan of the whole centerefold on to my PC? Thanks. 711.

[Ethel]

Your existing software may have this facitly - paintshop pro certainly has it, as does a lot of photo editing software.

I found this programme, don't know anything about it, but it seems to do what you want.

http://www.graphicutils.com/smerge/right.htm

[Ethel]

I have just done it myself in Word.

Set the page to landscape, removed all borders and margins.

Clicked insert photo from file, picked the first picture.

Repeated for the second.

They appeared close together side by side, and needed a little jiggling to make the fine margin between the two disappear, but it works ok.

You will need to mark the exact centre on the back of each picture and line them up carefully with the same point before scanning.

It's worth a go, anyway.

[stevie21]

Ethel, no offence, but using Word as an image editor!?
Maybe because I'd use Photoshop to do this I'm being a bit haughty! LOL

711 - use an image editor. There are lots of free ones out there. Christ, I'll do it for you if you want.

[Ethel]

stevie - I wouldn't use Word for that purpose normally, but most people have it.

As a simple way to tie to images together it works. No fuss, no bother.

[stevie21]

And it lets you save the result as a jpg rather than .doc?