Re: How to crop a photo in Paint

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Since you say the scanner works on WinME
and Win2000 and not on WinXP...there's a
possibility that you need to search the website
of your scanner's mfg. for an updated WinXP
driver.

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP
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"Yves Alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu> wrote in message news:eG9QQKOrFHA.332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What is your scanner model.
Maybe we can dig something.
But all the scanners I have used work exactly like John explained. You click
on the Preview button and the scanning begins, then you get a crop tool to
select exactly the area you want to keep and you click on the Scan button
and now you get the final product.

"Linus" <Linusverl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DBC55E07-FFAB-4A58-9C07-7E879187BA64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you John and Yves. But I my Operating system is Windows XP Pro. I
wonder if we are talking about the same thing here. Yves suggestion to
select
the photo with the rectangle and then click "save as" saves both the ears
on 
the outside of the rectangle as well as the photo inside.

I did crop all the photos by moving them to Windows ME and using that
tool,
but still need determine what is causing these white "ears" to be attached
to 
the photos in the first place.

Johns suggestion about the "Scanning Preferences Screen" don't seem to
apply
to my XP Pro. I can only get the photos via the "Scanner and Camera
Wizard."
It don't give me a "Preview" button or a box with handles. all I have is
the
option to "Set Picture Type," "Set Resolution," Set Destination," "Name
the Photo," and "Test Scanner." The scanner passes the test. and since it
works just fine on Me and Win 2000 I think the problem is with the XP OS.

I would apperciate any other ideas you may have on this subject.

Linus.

--
Linusverl


"Linus" wrote:

> Just installed XP Pro on my old computer & every thing working fine
except: 
>
> When I scan photos to XP Pro they all show a white ear on the left &
right
> side, look like they need to be cropped, I don't see any way to do this
with
> Paint. When I check the Paint help index for "Cropping Pictures" It > only
> tells me how to resize a picture. I can't believe there is no way to
crop a
> picture in this program. I assume I am just missing something here.
>
> Can some one please tell me how to crop the white ears off my Photos?
> -- > Linusverl 



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