Size of Scanned Pictures - Photostudio 5.5

Six years ago I bought a scanner which came with Photostudio 2000 and Elements. I have just replaced it with a new scanner which came with Photostudio 5.5 and Elements 5. I find that when I scan a picture/photo and import it into Excel the scanned picture is enormous and I have to go to a bit of trouble to reduce it to the appropriate size. In the earlier versions of the software the images were a lot smaller. Is there something I can do in either Photostudio or Elements to reduce the size of the image?

 

What resolution are you scanning the image at?

 

I am scanning at 150dpi. When I open the image in Elements 5 and click on Size I find the resolution is shown as 72dpi! I have just scanned an image and found that, despite the low resolution, the image is still huge when inserted into Excel.

 

Use Elements to resize the image. When you get the resizing screen, click on the resample option and you can set the size in pixels.

 

I did as you suggest and it worked fine. It just means a bit more work (opening Elements, resizing the image) which I didn't have to do with Photostudio 2000.

Thanks for your help

 

Are there no settings on your scanner where you can change the size of the scanned document, pixel range etc? If it came with photostudio 5.5 I'm assuming it's a Canon. My copier/scanner (Canon MP160) has a whole bunch of stuff I can change in there, including the size.

 

Good Grief,

Thanks! I changed the output settings in Scangear and it appears tw work just fine.

 

Glad it helped