Scanning Images with the Apple Color OneScanner Related Help Desk Files GGCS Computer Lab Printing Policies Choosing a Printer on a Macintosh General Procedure You must be using the Macintosh computer that is connected to the Apple Color OneScanner. Open the application Adobe Photoshop by selecting it from the Microsoft Office Menu in the upper right corner of the screen. Once Photoshop is open, click on the File menu, point to the Import submenu and select Apple Color OneScanner. This opens a window containing the controls for the scanner and a preview window for your scanned image. Figure 1: The Apple Color OneScanner window. This window contains the controls for the flatbed scanner and imports scanned images into Adobe Photoshop. A number of options are available within the scanning window. You will have to decide which options are appropriate to your scanning project. An important consideration is the resolution of your image (see GGCS Help Desk File: Scanning Resolution). If necessary you can change the options available: Source - Flatbed Image - 1) Color: what you will commonly use, 2) Grayscale, 3) Halftone: often good for line drawings, 4) Black and White Destination - Sets the resolution for specific output devices. It is better to set the resolution and then modify your image dimensions and resolution in Photoshop. Resolution - Enter an image resolution (supersedes Destination settings) Automatically Suggest Crop - Software will give a suggested selection around your image. You can then adjust this afterward to select the desired portion of your image or eliminate any white borders. Automatically Adjust Tone - The scanner will adjust the tone to what it thinks it best. You can also adjust the tone manually. Automatically Straighten - Since it is hard to get you image perfectly straight, someone decided the computer should be able to do it for you based on linear features that it thinks should be horizontal or vertical. It's great when it works, but a real pain when it doesn't. When you have selected the appropriate options, click the Preview button. This will make a preliminary scan of the entire scanning surface to search for your image. Often it is useful to hit Preview with the default settings before making any changes. You can then select the portion of the image that you want by dragging a box around it (remember that a white border around your image will use up a lot of disk space). If you hit Preview again, it will scan only your selected region of the scanning bed. You can now adjust the Tone and/or Threshold if desired. Once you have finalized the scanner settings, click the Scan button to generate your final image to be loaded into Photoshop. Once the final scan is finished your image will be dumped to a Photoshop window where you can use the Photoshop tools to polish and save your image to a file.
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