Q: I'm looking for a scanner that can scan up to 16x20 images. I cannot find one and with to get either a new or old one as cheap as possible. Whoa, that scanner was expensive. No way I'm getting a scanner in the thousands. I did try scanning in sections. Just drag the image in to another in photoshop. It's kind of a pain, and it doesn't match up 100%. And sometimes it's confusing if the image was scanned in an angle. It's a real pain trying to find one on ebay. I hate how they don't tell the max scan area. Maybe 16x20 is too much to ask. How about a 14x17scanner. lol, Probably the same range huh? That's the largest two size i use for my artwork mostly.
A: Well I'm assuming you have a regular scanner, if you do this may work for you, just scan the large image in sections, save them as a jpg, this software can put them back together It's free, can't beat that price to try it. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Actually you can do the same in any picture editing program, Adobe, Paint Shop, just create a new blank image the same size or a bit bigger than what you are scanning, Now scan the large picture in pieces, save each piece Then open the first piece, select or lasso the whole image, then copy, now paste this into the blank image as a "selection" ( I believe, or new selection) Repeat with remaining pieces and line them up, then "paste" Then just touch up any mismatches due to scanner linearity error etc. (this is the part that software above does that is really a pain depending how good the scanning went)