What ya look like?

Hmmm, you're about the 100,000th person to spot how my son looks like me. Actually if you take pictures of me at his age you can't tell us apart.

I've yet to break it to him that he's gonna grow up to look like me...

I have a scanner but don't know how.Explain.

I'm guessing this could take some time....

No it will not.I've just never tried it before.

OK, what ya got there in the way of a scanner and is it all hooked up to your PC and working?

<RC swaps heads into techie mode....>

Yup.

EJ you'd better tell RC what kind of set up you have...Do you have photoshop? Do you have the software for the scanner installed? What's it called?

General settings 75dpi is fine if you scanning a normal 8x10 photo, at least 256 bit colour depth but 16bit is better.

Normally, if the scanner is all set up properly you will have an acquire image option in you scanner compatable package. Anything compatable with Win9x should be TWAIN compliant. (TWAIN being the driver/protocol of image capture devices)

let me know if you need any more help.

I don't know but the brand is called Canyon Express.

Is that the software? or the scanner?

Scanner.

It's all hooked up, have you got as far as getting it to scan or self test yet. May sound like a pathetic question but when I first got my scanner it took us 3 days to get a self test done and after that it worked like a dream.

Yeah it works alright.

Kewl, what art package are you using Photoshop, PaintShopPro?

I don't know.

Then we're stuck, Dim help me out here.

I can't...I looked for info on Canyon Express but couldn't find anything. EJ. You're going to have to go looking for the stuff that came with the scanner. Where's the manual? Who set it up at your house anyway? ask them...Short of that I can't do anything unless you want to send the pic to me and have me scan it...

Actually RC, I emailed EJ and he said that he thought it was an Adobe program. I told him to look for Twain under the file>import option. Is that right, or is whether it's Twain dependent on your scanner?

Twain is a scanner standard so it's the same on any PC and I believe it's the same for a Mac.

Sounds like he's maybe using Photoshop.

Tings to try.

1. Always switch the scanner on BEFORE you boot the PC. I always end up having to reboot because I foprget this.

2. Under the file menu (if this is Photoshop), goto to import, there should a Select TWAIN source or similar. Click that and if your scanner is correctly installed in Windows then you will be able to click on it from the list (I assume you use windows 95 or 98???)

3. Once that's done, set up you pic and the fo back to PS and choose File > Import > TWAIN and it should give you a scanning screen.

4. Run a PREVIEW scan, once this has done use the mouse to select the area you really want to scan and adjust the dpi and colour (sorry color🙂 ) settings as I suggested in an earlier post.

5. Once scnanned, check the results, if you like then save and upload. If you can't get the result you want send it to me ot Dim with the settings you used and I'm sure we can advise you.

Where are you going to put you picture once you scan it? Do you have webspace?

My scanner doesn't work just now but what do you think I look like? Keep it clean🙂