General Steps Involved in the Scanning Process 

Check to be sure the computer and the attached scanner are turned on. If not, turn the scanner on before turning on the computer. Remember, scanning software works only on those computers with scanners attached! 

To begin the scanning process click on Start in the lower left-hand side of the Windows Desktop and scroll up to Programs. From there scroll over to Scanning Software and select Adobe Photoshop 5.0 from the list of available scanning software. 

While Adobe Photoshop is loading, open the lid of the scanner and place your photograph or document face down in the upper right-hand corner of the scanner (look for the arrow!). 

Once Adobe has loaded, select File from the main toolbar and scroll down to Import. Now click on Twain 32 and the following window will appear: 

If the scanner cannot tell what type of image is being scanned you will need to tell it (If the picture is in color and you tell the scanner it is in black and white, you will get a black and white picture.). Once you click on Scan, the following window containing a preview version of your image will appear: 

This window offers you a preview picture that you can either Accept or edit before scanning the final version. To accept the preview image, simply click the Accept box. Or if the image is crooked or otherwise distorted, press Cancel to begin again. 

You may need to edit the image before scanning the final version: 

These buttons allow you to zoom in and out on your image. This is especially useful when cutting and cropping an image.
 
 

Clicking on this feature allows you to adjust the size and content of your image. The hash lines can be pulled in or out to change the size or content of the image. Or you can cut a portion of the larger image out and the scanning software will ignore everything else and scan only that section of the preview image. 

In this example, the image has been cropped to delete the date stamped on the original. Remember, for the final version the scanner will only scan what is inside the hash lines!
 
 
 

Once the image is Accepted, Adobe will scan the final version. YOu can close the scanner program and go back to Adobe. This is the version that you will then save to your disk (Note: you can also play around with the edit features in Adobe at this point to fine tune your image's properties). To save your scanned photo select File and Save As.. Select the drive and save your file with the jpeg extension (for example, Photo.jpg). Next Adobe will ask you how big you want the file to be: 

Slide the arrow in the box left or right to adjust the file size or click on the size box and select from the pre-determined sizes listed. The size you select determines how much memory the image file will use. If you are saving your file to floppy disk, the image size cannot be larger than what the disk will hold (1.3mbs)! 

Click on Ok and Adobe will save your file to disk. 

Printing Your Image

Your saved image can now be printed either in color or in black and white depending on the type of printer you have available. You can also print the image onto transfer paper or overhead transparencies! For special printing functions you must go to File, Print Setup. You will have to feed the transfer paper into the printer as you would letterhead or transparencies. Simply pressing the print icon will not work.