BleepingComputer.com: Need Help With Sizing Images In Paint And/or Infanview

I think I've almost got this thing down! LOL!! Okay, I'm following all your steps, and it seems to be going along okay, unitl I got to a certain point in the process. Here is what I'm doing:

1. I've got the image on the screen.

2. I've dragged the lines to enclose the image

3. I've clicked on, "Keep Proportions"

4. I have it set at 100% resolution

5. The dpi is set at 96.

6. I take the dimension that's the largest and change it to 500.

Okay, this is where I'm having a problem. As soon as I change the dimensions, the lines shrink in on the image, but the image itself stays the size it was before. So now there is only a portion of my image that's inside the lines. If I leave it like that, scan, and save, then only the portion that was within the lines is saved.

So, what am I doing wrong now? LOL

Oh, when you were telling me where you place your item to be scanned on the scanner bed, is the back of your scanner the part that stays together when you lift the lid up? Do you put your item to be scanned on the glass horizontally or vertically? I've tried scanning my item in the front and the back, but still got the same result as I described above.

Okay, not as many questions this time!! Thanks for your help! Hope you had a nice weekend!

Michele

6. I take the dimension that's the largest and change it to 500.

Wrong.
Scan it first.
Then change it.
When I scan the image goes directly to the photo editor.
That's where I change the width & height & "Save As" a .jpg or .bmp or .gif or .png.

--Oh, when you were telling me where you place your item to be scanned on the scanner bed, is the back of your scanner the part that stays together when you lift the lid up? Do you put your item to be scanned on the glass horizontally or vertically?

When I lift the lid on mine I place the item towards the front opposite the hinge & have it to the left & bottom towards me on the glass.

The top of the magazine I scanned went towards the right edge.
Your scanner might be different.
When you Preview it you can tell if it positioned correctly.
If in the Preview it is upside down,lay it the opposite & Preview it again.
When it is correct,scan it.
That is part of what the Preview option is for.
So you can get it positioned correctly.

Hi! It's me again!! I learned how to take a picture of the screen which I thought would make this SO much easier when I'm trying to explain what I'm doing. And it was SO EASY!!! BUT, it only works when I'm trying to paste the image into a new document, but it won't let me paste the image in this reply to you. How do I do that? It would be a lot quicker than typing everything all out and easier for you to understand what is on my screen if you could just see it.

Thanks!!

Michele

Paste it into Windows Paint & save as a .jpg & host it at

http://tinypic.com/

Try to keep it under 250 KBs.

Put the URL at tiny pic in a post here.
Like I did.
Just the link.
Not the picture.
Too many pictures make for slow loading time.

Thanks for the link to TinyPic! Cool site! So, I took the picture and saved it in Paint as you suggested. I then went to TinyPic.com, and I browsed to the saved image in Paint. What I don't know is what I'm supposed to put in the box under that where it says, "Tag." I didn't see a "Help" link. Thanks!

Michele

Ignore Tag.
Just upload it.

Okay, here's what I'm doing.....with pictures.

First, I go to my Desktop and click on the "ScanWizard 5" icon, which brings up the following screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrr9md.jpg

The image that's showing in the window is from a previous scan, but it's the same image I'm trying to scan correctly at the right size and all.

After clicking on the ScanWizard 5 icon on the Desktop, I click on the Prescan icon, which brings up the following screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrsl21.jpg

Next, I click on the "Scan To" icon so that I can save the image in Irfanview or Paint, as you instructed, but here is where I hit another problem. There is no Paint or Irfanview for me to save my image in, as you can see in this next picture:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrspa9.jpg

There is a "Custom" link, but I don't know what to do with the boxes they want me to fill in for this. Here is a picture of what happens when I click on "Custom."

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrsyaf.jpg

So, that's where I am in the steps of getting my image scanned and at the correct size to submit to the magazine.

I also wanted to ask you if you find Paint or Irfanview to be easier to work with in relation to sizing images?

EDIT:

I also wanted to ask about the difference between the Advanced Control Panel and the Standard Control Panel. If I click on the "User Interface" icon, it switches between the two screens. I don't know which one is the best for me to use and what the real difference is. I noticed that if I use the settings on one panel and then switch to the other one, it basically seems to ignore the settings I had just done. Anyway, here are the pictures of the two screens:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrt2d0.jpg

See Picture of Standard Control Panel-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrtqoo.jpg


EDIT AGAIN:

I THINK I may have actually scanned my image and reduced it to the correct size!!! Here is what I did:

1. Click on ScanWizard 5 icon on Desktop, which brings up THIS SCREEN INSTEAD OF THE OTHER ONE THAT I WAS USING BEFORE:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrucew.jpg

2. Click on Scan To icon which brings up this screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrud02.jpg

3. Close out of Microtek ScanWizard and open image in Irfanview, which brings up this screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vruh79.jpg

4. Double-click on image, which brings up this screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrujwx.jpg

5. Click on Open icon, which brings up this screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrv5mq.jpg

6. Click on Image, Resize/Resample, and change Width to 500, which brings up this screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrv7yu.jpg

and this new image:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrv98i.jpg

7. Change "Save as type" to JPEG which brings up this screen:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrvbqw.jpg

8. Click Save
In the folder, "My Cards," when I hold the cursor over the image I just saved as a JPEG, the size is shown as 54.5 KB. Can I assume that the 54.5 KB is the correct size of this file, which very easily meets the 100 KB or less requirement that the magazine is looking for? See image below:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrvfhi.jpg

Hopefully I have finally done this scanning and resizing thing correctly!! It's only taken me how many days??? LOL!!

If possible, I'd still like to find out the answers to my other questions from earlier in this post, before the edits. Here they are again so you don't have to go searching for them:

When I'm trying to save my image, there is no Paint or Irfanview for me to save it to, as you can see in this next picture:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrspa9.jpg

There is a "Custom" link, but I don't know what to do with the boxes they want me to fill in for this. Here is a picture of what happens when I click on "Custom."

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrsyaf.jpg

Can you explain how to fill in those boxes in case I'd like to do it that way in the future?

I also wanted to ask about the difference between the Advanced Control Panel and the Standard Control Panel. If I click on the "User Interface" icon, it switches between the two screens. I don't know which one is the best for me to use and what the real difference is. I noticed that if I use the settings on one panel and then switch to the other one, it basically seems to ignore the settings I had just done. Anyway, here are the pictures of the two screens:

See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrt2d0.jpg

See Picture of Standard Control Panel-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrtqoo.jpg

That's it for now! Thanks again for your all of your help! I really appreciate it!!

Michele

This post has been edited by Luvkitty: 18 April 2006 - 04:35 AM

At the risk of jumping into something I haven't followed...
What I would do here:
See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrspa9.jpg
- is click save. Then the scanned file 'Dad's B-day card.jpg' will be saved in the folder 'My Cards' (change the save folder if that's not where you want them). Now you can start Irfanview and tell it to go to 'My Cards' and open the file 'Dad's B-day card.jpg' so you can edit/resize it.
Alternatively you can go to tinypic to host the image and when you click on 'Browse' navigte to 'My Cards' and select the scanned file.

"At the risk of jumping into something I haven't followed...
What I would do here:
See Picture-- http://i3.tinypic.com/vrspa9.jpg
- is click save. Then the scanned file 'Dad's B-day card.jpg' will be saved in the folder 'My Cards' (change the save folder if that's not where you want them). Now you can start Irfanview and tell it to go to 'My Cards' and open the file 'Dad's B-day card.jpg' so you can edit/resize it."

-- I already covered that.
Feel free to add any comments or help though.

Luvkitty, on Apr 18 2006, 02:28 AM, said:

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"There is a "Custom" link, but I don't know what to do with the boxes they want me to fill in for this. Here is a picture of what happens when I click on "Custom."

The yellow folder icon may be a browse function---

http://i3.tinypic.com/vrx0s7.jpg

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"I also wanted to ask you if you find Paint or Irfanview to be easier to work with in relation to sizing images?"

-- Irfanview for resizing.Much easier than Paint.

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"I also wanted to ask about the difference between the Advanced Control Panel and the Standard Control Panel. If I click on the "User Interface" icon, it switches between the two screens. I don't know which one is the best for me to use and what the real difference is."

--Try both & see which is easier to use.
The advanced settings on mine have more options.
Sometimes I use the advanced & sometimes the basic.

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The file name is a bit long & has spaces.
Perhaps dad_test.bmp or dad_test.jpg would be better.

http://i3.tinypic.com/vrud02.jpg

--edit
I see the name was changed to dad.bmp

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"In the folder, "My Cards," when I hold the cursor over the image I just saved as a JPEG, the size is shown as 54.5 KB. Can I assume that the 54.5 KB is the correct size of this file"

-- Yes.That's the correct size.

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I think you got it.
With a little practice it will become easy to scan & resize & save.
You picked up on taking screen shots quickly.

All I can say is that you are AWESOME!!!!!!!! I'm SO excited that I finally understand how to do all of this stuff, and I'm EXTREMELY grateful to YOU for all of your help!!!! You are doing a WONDERFUL job here, and I can't believe how lucky I was to stumble across this site!!! Well, I'm off to scan some stuff!!! Oh, and thanks for explaining how to take pictures of my screen!! That is SO useful!!! Take care!!!

Michele

This post has been edited by Luvkitty: 19 April 2006 - 01:42 AM

I'm glad things worked out well.
Thank you for your nice thank you.

As you use various image editing programs you will see that they are all somewhat similar.
I learned mostly by doing one thing at a time.
If I wanted to crop,I studied cropping.
Resizing,I studied resizing.
Adding text,I studied that.
Etc.
Pretty soon it all melded together.

I have found that showing screen shots really helps speed up learning & teaching.

Good luck with your cards.

Additional information on how to scan an image into Irfanview:

Turn on your scanner.
Place the image to be scanned, in your scanner.
Open Irfanview.
Click File, and select Acquire/Batch scanning....
In the Acquire Batch Scanning dialog box that opens, make sure the first 2 options are checked, and click the OK button.
Your scanner should then, scan the image, and open it in Irfanview.
Then, just set the size and quality the way you want it, and save it.

Medab1--- Thank you for the well-wishes with my cards!! I'm trying to start a business selling my cards and getting published!!

Tg1911--- Thanks for the info. about scanning an image directly to Irfanview! That's great info. to have, and I'll try it out with the next item I need to scan!

You are all so helpful here!!! What a wonderful place!!

Have a great day!!!

You're welcome, Luvkitty.
I just thought it might be easier for you, that way.
Good luck with your scanning.