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Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual
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Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual

by Barbara Brundage
October 2007
Beginner
592 pages
18h 58m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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 an Elements plug-in for your scanner and the Adobe TWAIN driver doesn't work for you, 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 and Videos" → From Scanner, or press Ctrl+U. You should check out your available options for both locations because they're probably different. For instance, you may find that you have different file formats available to ...

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