Drew Davis
03-26-2000, 08:34 PM
In Adobe Photo Deluxe, first turn on the "advanced menus". (There's a button at the bottom of the picture list on the left.) Once you get all the features, you should see a Size menu, with a Canvas Size option. The "Canvas Size" is the size of that white area that clips the individual photos. It starts out at the size of the first picture you open, so you need to make it bigger to join all the photos. The alternative is to sub-sample the image and reduce its resolution and size, so that they fit in the original white box.
Once you have a bunch of images that fit into the white box, you can just drag them until they align properly.
35mm slide adapters for flatbed scanners are basically a right-angle prism designed to catch the scanner light, bounce it up and around behind the slide, and light it up downward toward the scanner surface again. The device just sits on top of the normal surface, and should work with any scanner. The primary limitation here is the resolution of the scanner. Since the slide is maybe an inch wide, you're looking a a few hundred pixels across the slide. You can also get purpose-made slide scanners, which cost a good bit more (a couple of thousand), but go up to 2800 dpi. A lot of photo shops can scan your slides for you, too.
Once you have a bunch of images that fit into the white box, you can just drag them until they align properly.
35mm slide adapters for flatbed scanners are basically a right-angle prism designed to catch the scanner light, bounce it up and around behind the slide, and light it up downward toward the scanner surface again. The device just sits on top of the normal surface, and should work with any scanner. The primary limitation here is the resolution of the scanner. Since the slide is maybe an inch wide, you're looking a a few hundred pixels across the slide. You can also get purpose-made slide scanners, which cost a good bit more (a couple of thousand), but go up to 2800 dpi. A lot of photo shops can scan your slides for you, too.