My new scanner isn't letting me scan with Photoshop CS..

[omgwut]

Hey there, I hope someone can help me out with this. I just bought a new Canon LiDE 600F flatbed scanner and have set it up and installed the driver disc. I want to be able to import documents and photos directly from the scanner into Photoshop CS, however when I select "File>Import>CanoScan LiDE 600F...", instead of taking me to the default Photoshop scanner preview window it opens up the crappy "ScanGear" from-the-disc software, which I don't want.

How can I fix this? Thanks alot!

 

[MisterMe]

... instead of taking me to the default Photoshop scanner preview window it opens up the crappy "ScanGear" from-the-disc software, which I don't want.

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What you are seeing is not fixable. The LiDE 600F is a TWAIN scanner. ScanGear is Canon's TWAIN plug-in. Use Image Capture to scan your images and then open them in Photoshop CS for editing.

 

[omgwut]

Really? I thought Photoshop had its own scanner preview window.

Thank you, I will try that instead.

 

[LosAngeles]

HP scanner not working in Image Capture

Hey-i see that a workaround to Photoshop not seeing a scanner is to use Image Capture. However, when I open image capture (with the scanner connected via USB) it just pops up a one line dialogue box "No image Capture Device Connected"
what do I do?

Ultimately, I want to get a good Advanced scan with my HP Photosmart c4250.

 

[profinite]

What you are seeing is not fixable. The LiDE 600F is a TWAIN scanner. ScanGear is Canon's TWAIN plug-in. Use Image Capture to scan your images and then open them in Photoshop CS for editing.

This has been the most useful scanner hint in years for me.

I have an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo with a document feeder. On a G5 Tower (PPC), I managed to use a Twain driver with Photoshop CS4 and did direct scan from within Photoshop. But, when I moved to a Mac Pro (Intel) and Photoshop CS5, I was aware that the days of Twain were over.

Without realizing that Apple has given me a free scanning utility, I searched high and low. But, the only scanning utility I could find was VueScan. It is not a bad application. Yet, I continued to search for another scanning utility.

Then, today, I read the above post and finally realized that Image Capture is a scanning utility. For a long time, I may have mistakingly assumed that Image Capture was a screen capture utility. Was I totally wrong!

Thank you for the eye-opening hint!