Cropping your photographs for scanning
Cut a clean, white piece of paper the size of your photograph (i.e... 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6", 5" x 7", or 8" x 10").
Now cut a square or rectangle in the paper the size of the image you with to crop. Tape the paper in place on the photograph.
Before cropping. Cropped

Cropped with paper.
After
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