Please help me, I'm old and technology is confusing.

[87sluggo]

Hello. I used to have a computer running on Windows XP with a scanner running on a hamster/wheel configuration that Worked. Just. Fine. Then it got sick and died and I bought a Windows 7 computer with a funky new scanner that would run on it. Now the old scanner came with an HP photo-editor that chopped up my nine-card picture into 9 pictures of the separate cards with a little bit of effort. This unit does not, and the old HP program has been consigned to the dust-heap. I have no idea what I'm doing at this point. I tried using Photobucket to do it, it's VERY time consuming. Do I need to buy PhotoShop? Is there something else I can use?

[Craig2]

For something that basic, free programs should work fine. I use Microsoft Photo Editor for editing my scans, it's free and may already be included with Windows.

Failing that, try Photoscape or similar free programs. Do not pay for Photoshop. And I agree, doing anything in Photobucket is enough to make anyone become a Luddite.

[87sluggo]

For something that basic, free programs should work fine. I use Microsoft Photo Editor for editing my scans, it's free and may already be included with Windows.

Failing that, try Photoscape or similar free programs. Do not pay for Photoshop. And I agree, doing anything in Photobucket is enough to make anyone become a Luddite.

This new el-cheapo refurbished computer (that, to its credit, is about 100X faster than my old one) seems to have come with Microsoft Paint as the only option for editing anything..... no Picture Manager or anything else.

Foo.

[87sluggo]

Oh mannn, even Picture Manager has been discontinued! This is total crap!

PS...... Photo Editor is long dead too :(

[mightykeebs]

i've used paint.net as a program for editing pictures. It's free so that's the best part just search it in google.

[reoddai]

What you want is an image spliter or tiler. I did a search and this guy popped up:
http://download.cnet.com/ImageCool-F...-13640284.html
purports to be free.

If you try it out and it works, let us know. I think a bunch of people are looking for this kind of software.

Cheers,
reoddai

[13stepper]

Ed your scanner should've come with a software suite. Within the scanner application you should be able to change the document size to "auto detect multiple documents". that way you can place 6 cards on the platen, evenly seperated and it will automatically generate a separate image of each item on the platen.

[87sluggo]

What you want is an image spliter or tiler. I did a search and this guy popped up:
http://download.cnet.com/ImageCool-F...-13640284.html
purports to be free. If you try it out and it works, let us know. I think a bunch of people are looking for this kind of software.

Cheers,
reoddai

Well sir, it................WORKS! From placing nine cards in the scanner to scanning them to right-clicking the program in My Pictures to splitting them along the grid lines into 9 separate files, it took less than two minutes. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

The only negative is that the program keeps bombarding me with offers to sell me $509 worth of "stuff" for $29 or $39 and reminds me that I'm not backing anything up. But I'm pretty sure Amy can figure out a way to shut all that down, I'm still learning Windows 7...........

Thanks!!!!!

[87sluggo]

Ed your scanner should've come with a software suite. Within the scanner application you should be able to change the document size to "auto detect multiple documents". that way you can place 6 cards on the platen, evenly seperated and it will automatically generate a separate image of each item on the platen.

My scanner was bought 2nd-hand without the software, I had to download the driver. I bought it because I like HP scanners and they don't seem to sell them new anymore. BUT I had no idea the software suite I'd been using was discontinued. And that the latest version is nothing more than a site to sell you things :(

[centrehice]

Your scanner should be running everything, not a 3rd party program, unless you have a Hasbro, or Mattel scanner.