Method 1: Multi-Crop using scanning software Cropping is time-consuming! I've tried a bunch of different methods and this is the fastest way I've found. After laying the cards on the flatbed scanner as described under "Arranging Cards", I open my scanning software. My preferences are set to open to the last settings I've used. Because I've already defined my crops, I click on "Preview"; the scanner displays my cards and how they'll be cropped. I just did this with nine new cards and my screen looks like this:
Once I've got the nine crops up, I hit "scan" and the cards are scanned like so:
Then I open up the scanner cover and flip all the cards over to do the backs. I usually don't bother to "Preview" again, but I'll do it here just to show what I get:
If something looks off, I can quickly move a crop, but this looks fine, so I hit "Scan".
And I get some more scans that look like this:
I just keep going with more cards until I'm done scanning all I want for this session. Then I close the scanning interface and save the card images to a new file I'll call "2007 July 18 Scans" within my "Scanned—unedited" folder. Sometimes I rename the individual images as I save them, but lately I do not because it takes time.
Then I open Picasa. It automatically finds my new folder of scans:
I have other photo editing programs including Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and the aforementioned PhotoStudio, among others, but I find Picasa the easiest to use for my TwinsCards scans.
