"Scanning bed" refers to the area of a scanner where the document or layout is placed. |
Most of us can't afford the luxury of expensive, big-screen televisions with surround sound speakers. Similarly, most of us cannot afford the pricey, large-bed scanners that are on the market today, aimed at scrapbookers. So instead, we must make do with the scanners we've got. By and large, these have a scanning bed about the size of a sheet of copier paper, or about 8.5 inches by 11 inches. For those of us who scrapbook pages up to 12"x12" (or bigger!), it means we have to do some creative "pasting" to share an entire layout with someone via email or over the Internet.
The process of scanning a layout in multiple sections, then splicing the various scans together, is called "scanning and stitching." The exact steps taken vary from scanner to scanner and from one digital software program to another. Check your digitizing software's directions, or Google "scan and stitch" plus the name of the program you use. Generally speaking, however, you will take four scans - the page's top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right. Obviously, there will be a lot of overlap in what gets scanned.
After performing your scans, you will create a new image. Copy and paste selections from the four scans, and use the features of your digitizing software to splice them together. There will be some overlap in the layers you paste, but your software should allow you to "feather" or "smudge" any unsightly seams (check your own software's Help files for directions). Once you have a unified, single image that is a copy of your layout, merge all of the layers together, and save it. Voila!
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