Help with scanning old photos needed

shopndrop

I have a HP Officejet 6500 printer and scanner and have tried to scan some old photos. Problem is they appear in the top left of a page of A4 paper. Is there anyway I can scan these but so that it doesn't look like a blob in the corner. They are very old photos so probably only about 3" square.

DMFR

Are you printing out the scanned images?
Can you put more than one photo on the scanner at a time?

shopndrop

No I am not printing them, want to add them to Ancestry as part of my family history but when I add them, they look a bit daft with all the rest of the page white. I only have 1 photo of each person, so need them on separate pages.

Butterscotch-

You need to look for the crop facility in the programme you are using.

shopndrop

Butterscotch- wrote: »

You need to look for the crop facility in the programme you are using.

Only recently started using a scanner so sorry for daft question but will I find that on the scanner or the computer?

bigpound

Some software does an autocrop which detects where there is nothing scanned and removes. Or some asks you to specify a size, like an a5 postcard.

You can find this either on the scanner itself and/or under the options of the software. Or you may not have that feature at all, in which case you can open the images with paint and crop them manually.

shopndrop

Thank you all so much, with your help I have managed to do it. Very much appreciated. :j:j

santer_2

Change scan settings
To change scan settings
• Windows: Open the HP Solution Center, select Settings, select Scan Settings and
Preferences, then select from the available options and make your selections.
• HP Device Manager (Mac OS X): Launch HP Device Manager, click Information
and Settings, and then select Scan Preferences from the drop-down list.

From here, page 51

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01669504.pdf

Just saw your post, though the user guide may be of use

DMFR

bigpound wrote: »

you can open the images with paint and crop them manually.

Right click on the saved image and choose EDIT. Paint should open up. You will see your scanned image with a lot of white around it. If you go to the middle of the bottom/side/corner of the white space you should see a small square. Click and hold it as you crop to your scanned image.