Comments on: Beady eye to beady eye (what you doing with that camera, honey?) http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/ Days in the Life Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:15:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robin http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1685 Robin Fri, 09 May 2008 23:20:33 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1685 It worked just fine with the rose photo a week or so back, but your suggestion about a mark on the background . . . I'm going to try cleaning the screen before I try again. It worked just fine with the rose photo a week or so back, but your suggestion about a mark on the background . . . I’m going to try cleaning the screen before I try again.

]]> By: Firebyrd http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 Firebyrd Fri, 09 May 2008 18:37:57 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1664 My guess is that you didn't resize the area you were scanning to just include the picture, hence we're seeing the whole scanner bed. I've done that accidentally before too. :)

My guess is that you didn’t resize the area you were scanning to just include the picture, hence we’re seeing the whole scanner bed. I’ve done that accidentally before too. :)

]]> By: Julia http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1636 Julia Fri, 09 May 2008 05:50:12 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1636 *high five* back at you! Great minds think alike, eh? Or at least minds of we readers of the McKinley blog who do all we can to make life easier or better for her... especially when it is actually something more than virtual hugs and candles and chocolate! Yeah, Photoshop came with my laptop, which is really nice- because it is ridiculously expensive... yay for college laptops [which themselves are ridiculously expensive] that come with software. Except I often waste time playing with pictures. One MORE way to be distracted from my work, eh? :) --Julia *high five* back at you!

Great minds think alike, eh? Or at least minds of we readers of the McKinley blog who do all we can to make life easier or better for her… especially when it is actually something more than virtual hugs and candles and chocolate!

Yeah, Photoshop came with my laptop, which is really nice- because it is ridiculously expensive… yay for college laptops [which themselves are ridiculously expensive] that come with software. Except I often waste time playing with pictures. One MORE way to be distracted from my work, eh?

:)

–Julia

]]> By: chiquitar http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1635 chiquitar Fri, 09 May 2008 04:59:18 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1635 It looks like your scanner is thinking the white background is part of the image instead of cutting it off like it normally does. I have had this problem when I tried scanning without closing the cover all the way (makes those black borders that the scanner can see and therefore saves because it must be important), or when my white background got a mark on it. Also, your scanner may want a photograph placed in a specific corner. Where you are putting it is the bottom right corner (if you think of the glass as a piece of paper); you might try putting the photo up against the top left corner instead (usually there is a cryptic little arrow in one of the corners that means where you are supposed to put small things).

It looks like your scanner is thinking the white background is part of the image instead of cutting it off like it normally does. I have had this problem when I tried scanning without closing the cover all the way (makes those black borders that the scanner can see and therefore saves because it must be important), or when my white background got a mark on it. Also, your scanner may want a photograph placed in a specific corner. Where you are putting it is the bottom right corner (if you think of the glass as a piece of paper); you might try putting the photo up against the top left corner instead (usually there is a cryptic little arrow in one of the corners that means where you are supposed to put small things).

]]> By: Robin http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1618 Robin Thu, 08 May 2008 23:33:50 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1618 I AM VERY RELIEVED. (There, another reason to be able to sleep tonight. :)) Gods, you're reminding me of living in the back woods of Maine. Yes. But there you saved your gallon jugs of good water for drinking and things and you flushed the toilet with the stuff with moss and tadpoles in it from the stream. . . . I used to try to fish the tadpoles out. . . . I AM GOING TO BED NOW. I AM VERY RELIEVED. (There, another reason to be able to sleep tonight. :)) Gods, you’re reminding me of living in the back woods of Maine. Yes. But there you saved your gallon jugs of good water for drinking and things and you flushed the toilet with the stuff with moss and tadpoles in it from the stream. . . . I used to try to fish the tadpoles out. . . .

I AM GOING TO BED NOW.

]]> By: jmeadows http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1615 jmeadows Thu, 08 May 2008 23:29:28 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1615 We keep five gallon jugs full of water, just for this purpose. ;) S'okay for brushing teeth and washing faces. And, you know, important things like the toilet! We keep five gallon jugs full of water, just for this purpose. ;) S’okay for brushing teeth and washing faces. And, you know, important things like the toilet!

]]> By: Robin http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1614 Robin Thu, 08 May 2008 23:27:53 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1614 Golly. Excitement where you least expect it. (And, possibly, *want* it.) No brush teeth before go to bed! UGGGGGGGGGGGGH! Golly. Excitement where you least expect it. (And, possibly, *want* it.) No brush teeth before go to bed! UGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

]]> By: jmeadows http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 jmeadows Thu, 08 May 2008 23:26:14 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1612 Always! :) Always! :)

]]> By: jmeadows http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1611 jmeadows Thu, 08 May 2008 23:25:06 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1611 Isn't it ridiculous? I mean, we have water. There are pipes in our house and stuff. But they don't get water from the town. The cistern is outside, and our water gets pumped in from that. Big bummer whenever we run out. (We did last night. Urgh. Water man came this morning so we could shower and brush teeth and stuff.) The house is about 70 years old, which isn't an excuse, I know, because someone could have gotten it taken care of at any point...but no one did. We could have town water (actually a new thing around here :S) if we wanted to give the town somewhere between $5000-7500...which we might have to do, if the cistern really is dying from age. Big water drama. :) Isn’t it ridiculous?

I mean, we have water. There are pipes in our house and stuff. But they don’t get water from the town. The cistern is outside, and our water gets pumped in from that. Big bummer whenever we run out. (We did last night. Urgh. Water man came this morning so we could shower and brush teeth and stuff.)

The house is about 70 years old, which isn’t an excuse, I know, because someone could have gotten it taken care of at any point…but no one did. We could have town water (actually a new thing around here :S) if we wanted to give the town somewhere between $5000-7500…which we might have to do, if the cistern really is dying from age.

Big water drama. :)

]]> By: Robin http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/comment-page-1/#comment-1607 Robin Thu, 08 May 2008 23:17:35 +0000 http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/05/08/beady-eye-to-beady-eye-what-you-doing-with-that-camera-honey/#comment-1607 Okay, wait a minute . . . you don't have WATER?? What century are you living in? Wait, wait, you have COMPUTERS but no WATER?? Although I agree with you about ferret laundry. Dog laundry. Urrgh. Hellhounds and ferrets have a common ancestor. *really* recent. Like grandparents or something. :) Okay, wait a minute . . . you don’t have WATER?? What century are you living in? Wait, wait, you have COMPUTERS but no WATER??

Although I agree with you about ferret laundry. Dog laundry. Urrgh.

Hellhounds and ferrets have a common ancestor. *really* recent. Like grandparents or something. :)

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