Taking portions of one image to another image?

Hello all

I had a question on Photoshop. When I scan booklets that are printed on white glossy paper with black text, I like to scan it in black and white mode to produce the images as this save me considerable hard drive space. However, if there is a black and white picture of someone or something, I can't scan in black and white anymore, and have to scan in grayscale otherwise the pictures come out horrible. This does cause the image size to balloon considerably.

So my question was this. Is there anyway where I can scan a page that contains a black and white picture in grayscale, cut that picture out, rescan the picture in black and white mode, and then replace the cutout picture from the previous image into the new image?

I welcome any suggestions in helping me out with this dilemma. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Hello Evessal
1. Select portion of the 1st picture with a selection tool (see flash movie)
2. Copy it to clipboard [Ctrl+C]
3. Go to the 2nd image
4. Paste the copied graphic [Ctrl+V]
5. Activate Free Transform [Ctrl+T] and adjust size and position of the the imported pic.

The problem you are running into is that when you scan in Black and white you are producing a "bitmap" image. A grayscale image can't be directly placed into a bitmap. (it has to much data)

Do you have Indesign or some other page layout application?

That is the way to handle it. Just can all the pages black and white. scan just the image(is) not the whole page in grayscale.

Then just place the black and white (text) images into an Indesign document and place the images in on top of each page.