Scanning: the results

I figured out how to crop my scanned photos and move them to 'My Pictures' on my computer. Then I uploaded a bunch of them to my Facebook page. I thought you guys might be interested in a couple of good laughs, so I'm sharing a few with you.

This photo was taken in Nov of 1981 when I was a senior in high school. Yes, that's right, over 27 years ago. Its "Vintage Mark"!!!
First, I invite you to check my version of the Farrah Fawcett hairdo for men! Yes, I had wings. Then I suggest you have a look at those giant glasses I'm wearing, that rival aeronautic goggles. Can you say "Stylin'"???

I scanned this photo which was taken in Feb of 2009. Its not funny or anything, I just scanned it because my friend Kerry sent it to me in the mail and I wanted a digital version since its one of the few photos of me that I like.

Spouse doesn't like it when we wear the same color, but it seems to happen a lot. I guess we get into the same 'color mood' at the same time.

Okay, now back to the hilarious. In this photo (I am in the bottom left) I am performing in a barbershop quartet in April 1981.

I changed costumes so fast that I didn't have time to button my cuff before going back on stage. You can see my cuff hanging open as I hold my hat out.

Here's another high school gem. I performed in a vocal jazz and show choir called "The Dominants", a play on words involving the dominant note in a chord. I'm on the right, behind the microphone.

Although its difficult to see, our costumes were made of red or blue satin. The glimmered and glistened when we moved! The girls had white satin pants and a red or blue satin tunic. The guys had white pants and shirts with red or blue satin tunics. It was very avant gard for its day!

Here we are at a competition where we won several trophies.

I am on the front row (of course), the 2nd red tunic from the right.

My high school friends have been loving all the scanned photos I uploaded, and we've been commenting about funny facial expressions and trying to remember the details of where we performed, etc. Its been really fun and has brought back some wonderful memories.

Crush du Jour: Dylan Fergus

Scanning

I have really enjoyed seeing the photos posted on Facebook by my old high school friends. Since I performed in a vocal jazz and show choir group, I've been 'tagged' in lots of photo scans recently. This lead me to remember the photos I have from our group's performances, trips, competitions, and parties.

So I decided to get the photos out and scan them for posting on Facebook. But I hadn't really used the scanner function of my 4-in-1 unit, so I hoped it would be simple and intuitive.

Well, the scanning part was easy. Unfortunately, the raw scans look like someone took a photo of the photo on top of the scanner. The photo sits in the corner with a bunch of blank area around it, like this:

So, I've been experimenting with the photo editing software to try and enlarge the images and crop off all the blank white area. I think I've got that part figured out, but now I'm wondering how do I 'find' these edited photos? They're not in the "My Pictures" section of my computer, which would have been intuitive. I suppose once I find them I can move them to "My Pictures" where they belong.

If anyone has any handy scanning, editing, or moving tips for me that would be great!

Crush du Jour: Johnny Castle