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I am a total noob at image editing, so this might be ridiculously easy. I have a scan of a book I need to read for school. The professor scanned the book face down so each page is two pages of the book and it is rotated clockwise of how it should be read. I am trying to get some kind of OCR to work on it, so I want to get each page of the book separate. The goal is to get to the point where I can read and underline text on my Kindle. Here's where paint.net comes in. I have already taken screen shots of the pdf and split the pages into separate images using ctrl+alt+V so they are already split. Now I am trying to make them all stacked on top of each other like say a Word document would be. I cannot figure out how to expand the canvas to allow the image I want to paste in to show up. It only shows up on top of the image that is already there. I can expand the canvas, but anywhere the new image crosses outside the perimeter of the one already there, it only shows the gray checkered pattern. Hope this makes sense, anyone know how to do this?

I have been selecting the images and corresponding text boxes in excel first, then hitting ctrl+c to copy. Then I hit ctrl+v to paste into Paint, ctrl+x to cut out of Paint, and ctrl+alt+v to paste into a new image into paint.NET. I just tried to use different methods of copy-paste to no avail. pdnnoob, I think you are right, it corresponds to where in the Excel document the image is. I tried copying an image that is several inches down in the document and it doesn't even show up on the canvas at all, I'm thinking it is several inches down in paint.NET as well. I tried pasting into a new layer of an existing image and I don't think that will work either. The little preview it gives you when it asks whether you want to expand the canvas or resize the picture showed the image offset as well, so it seems like it just comes out of Excel like that. Not sure why. Anybody have any other ideas? I'm about to resign to just pasting and cutting out of Paint first from now on.

No, I completely deleted the canvas and pasted the image straight into a new canvas (ctrl+alt+v). I didn't want to have to mess with canvas sizes each time. It works great, except for with pictures from Excel.

Here is the Screenshot of what happens when I copy-paste onto a new canvas. If I try to move the image, the rest is cut off and just gone. Thanks for the info on sharing photos, I've never used a service like that before.

Just copy-pasting a picture itself only offsets the picture by a little bit, but add a text box in and it offsets is almost an inch down and an inch left. The canvas is the right size, it just cuts off part of the picture completely. I have tried to move it up into the space that is the correct size for it and that portion of the picture is completely gone.

I am using Excel 2003. I am making pictures and putting in text boxes as labels to fit the size of the space I need it to later be called into. Same thing happened with a random picture that I put labels on and copied from excel, but I used paint.NET for the screenshot and it worked fine. Is it the text boxes from Excel? Also, I took a screenshot and saved it as several different types of picture files from paint.NET and none of them will allow me to attach it to my post, they all say I cannot attach that kind of file. Not really sure how to attach a picture then.

I am using paint.NET for the first time. I am using it to create images that I will later call into an Excel sheet. These images are built in Excel, then copy-pasted into paint.NET. The problem is that when I select anything in Excel and paste it into paint.NET, it creates a canvas that is the proper size, but the images from Excel are offset both down and to the right. I have found that this is remedied by pasting into Paint first, then cutting it and pasting into paint.NET, but that gets rather tedious. Is there something I'm missing that would make this easier. BTW, I have tried creating a new canvas and pasting the image into a new canvas with the same results. Thanks in advance!