At 01:24 7/11/99 , Acer Victoria wrote:
>single frame but compose so that once you chop off the top portion, it
>looks a really wanne-be pano (umm, like
>http://student.ucr.edu/~siddim01/lad.jpg which I didn't intend to be this
>way--the scanner software at the school lab automagically cut out the sky
>on top, and no matter what I did, I couldn't figure out how to get it
>back. It would scan the whole photo, but leave out the white area when
>sending to Paint Shop. When I scanned the light tower at the airport, it
>did the same thing. When I scanned the 'medusa's head' it did the same,
>but I scanned the photo sideways to fool it and get the whole, which
>didn't work for lad.jpg or cyclops.jpg).
Thanks for your thoughts on this and it is yet another way of getting a
type of pano. It may be the excu^H^H^H^Hjustification I've needed for a
fast 21mm wide angle (now were did I put that URL to Gary's lens page?).
I've had similar problems with the Kodak scanner at one of the local
minilabs. You've probably seen one: scans prints, negatives or slides and
then dumps it out on an 8x10. It thinks there is nothing there when it
finds a uniform, large lightly colored region, especially on a print, and
most especially on a B&W print! Had all sorts of headaches trying to use
it one time to repro some ancient 40-45 year old photographs. Had to turn
several prints sideways and in another case, turned the slide 90 degrees
also. (BTW, some of these machines are notorious for eating slides). One
print I could not repro; no matter which way I turned it, the machine
would not scan the whole print. Must be we both encountered some of the
same hardware, and or software, perhaps in different size and shape boxes.
You're not alone in your woes on this and if you discover a fix, let me know!
Thanks,
-- John
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