Working With Scanners.

This information is based upon my use of Paperport software which came with my Lexmark.  However, the operations should be similar regardless of brand.  They just might use a different name for something.

At this point I assume you have opened your scanner program and sitting on the Main Page.

Scanning Pictures.

Select TWAIN, that is the screen where you do your scanning.

Put your picture in the scanner, the top of the picture should be toward you and against the top edge of the scanner.

Look for a button called "Preview".  Click on that and it should scan the picture for you to look at before doing the final scan.

After your picture comes up, you should see a dotted line going all around the edge of the scan area.

Put your cursor on the line on the left side.  When your cursor changes from the arrow to a left-right arrow ( <--> ), then press the left mouse button and move that line to the left edge of your picture.  Get it just on the picture so no white is showing.  

Then release the mouse button and the line should stay there.

Now do the same with the line on the right side, getting the left-right arrow, press the mouse button and slide the line to the right edge of your picture, and release the mouse button.

Same for the bottom, slide it up to the bottom of your picture.  

You shouldn't have to do the top since the picture should be against the top anyway.  However, in cases where you may have a page, book, annual, etc where you have several pictures, you can move these lines to get only the picture you want and not the whole page of pictures.

Now you have the lines all around the edge of your picture....press the Scan button to scan your picture.

There is probably an Exit button to go to your viewing area.  My program goes to the Scanner Desktop where I see all the pictures I've scanned before.  I click on the picture I just scanned and it is then bordered in Red.

I suggest saving the picture as is first. Pick a name, such as nani1 (later saves can be nani2, nani3, etc. This way as you work to crop it, or adjust colors, or other editing and you goof up, you still have the original saved and can start over.  Thus you won't have to scan the picture again.

At the top on the Menu, the first item on my menu is "Page" which I select to see the picture I just bordered in red.  

You should see only the picture and not all the white area around it.

Some programs are set where you can put the cursor on the picture, press the mouse button and a line comes up so you can crop the picture.  Other programs you may have to click on an icon to get this feature.

As you put the line around the part of the picture you want to crop, you may have to do it a time or two to get just the area you want.  If the line is on the picture when you let go of the mouse button, just click it again and it should disappear.  Then click again, putting the mouse where you want to start the crop line.

If you are satisfied then save it.  Go up to the Menu, click on File then use SAVE AS and give this picture a new name (such as nani2 so you won't lose your original).

There are other features such as darkening or lightening a picture, but these you have to experiment with.

Sizing a picture.  In one of your Menu items at the top one of the items in the menu should be one called Image Size.  Click that.  It should show you the current size of the picture and allows you to change the numbers.

If say the picture show it is 7 x 10 (and maybe with some decimals), you might want to make it a 5 x 7, or a 3 x 5.  Just remember to keep in ratio of the original pic.

Otherwise you will get short fat pics, or tall skinny ones.

Since I'm not familiar with the HP program, this is the best I can offer at the moment.  But hopefully the names of buttons and menu items will be close enough you can work with it.

You may just have to scan through all the menu items to see what is where so you'll know where to find them in the future.

If you have any other questions, let me know and I'll try to help.

Walt