September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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38 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
Scanning Photos
Scanning Photos
Elements comes bundled with many scanners because it’s the perfect software for
making your scans look their best. You have two main ways of getting scans into
Elements. Some scanners come with a driver plug-in, a small utility program that
lets you scan directly into Elements. Look on your scanner’s installation software
for information about Elements compatibility or check the manufacturer’s Web
site for a Photoshop plug-in to download. (If you can scan into Photoshop, you
should be able to scan into Elements.) You may also be able to scan into Elements
if your scanner uses the TWAIN interface, which is an industry standard used by
many scanner manufacturers.
If you don’t have any of these programs, you’ll need to use the scanning program
that came with your scanner. Then, once you’ve saved your scanned image in a
format that Elements understands, like TIFF (.tiff, .tif) or Photoshop (.psd), open
the file in Elements like any other photo.
To control your scanner from within Elements, you can choose to scan from either
the Editor or the Organizer. In the Editor, go to File ➝ Import, and you’ll find your
scanner’s name on the list that appears. In the Organizer, go to File ➝ Get Photos
➝ From Scanner, or press Ctrl+U. You should check out your available options for
both locations because they’re probably different. For
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