Green tint on scan photos

[toiyabe]

A friend gave me a HP ScanJet 3200C scanner (new). I installed HP driver
for this scanner and I'm using the HP site to scan with.

All my photos have green tints (b/w and color).

Also have narrow vertical shadow down the middle (most, but not all the
time).

Anyone have this problem? Any fix?

I also need to "shrink" the extremely high file size of all scanned
photos before mailing. Easy way to do this?

Windows 2000 ... newbie

Thanks for any help.

 

[CSM1]

A friend gave me a HP ScanJet 3200C scanner (new). I installed HP driver
for this scanner and I'm using the HP site to scan with.

All my photos have green tints (b/w and color).

Also have narrow vertical shadow down the middle (most, but not all the
time).

Anyone have this problem? Any fix?

I also need to "shrink" the extremely high file size of all scanned
photos before mailing. Easy way to do this?

Windows 2000 ... newbie

Thanks for any help.

To learn more about scanning, do some reading:
http://www.scantips.com

There are adjustments in the TWAIN interface for correcting slight tint
shift.

For "shrinking" images for email, you can resample in a photo editor such as
Photoshop Elements or the free Irfanview.

But the best way for email is to scan the original photo at an appropriate
DPI to produce an email size image. For email you usually only need 75-100
DPI. A 4 X 6 inch photo scanned at 100 DPI will produce a 400 x 600 pixel
image, just right for email.

A 4 X 6 inch photo scanned at 150 DPI will produce a 600 x 900 pixel image,
about 1.49 megabytes before compression maybe a 55.68 KB jpg depending on
the amount of compression, a bit larger, and maybe too big for somebody
using dial-up.

 

[toiyabe]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.