Re: Is scanning into photoshop possible?

Harry Lockwood wrote:
In article <1175264123.187817.61550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"SpaceGirl" <nothespacegirlspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 30, 12:18 pm, Avery <A...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:35:03 +1000, "paul" <p...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to scan photos directly from a scanner into photoshop?
thanks,Paul
If your scanner is properly installed, In PS go file > import > your
scanner name should come up. just click and scan.
Unless... you are on a Mac, have an Epson multifunction scanner and
quick user switching enabled... You cannot scan from PhotoShop then
because Epsons OSX drivers truly suck. I use VueScan instead, which
happily talks to my Epson RX640 and I dont have Epsons nasty drivers
installed.

I'm on a Mac (OS X) and my Epson Perfection 3590 show up (along with my Nikon scanner) under File/ Import. Scans directly into PS, apparently without a problem. What am doing wrong? And what is "quick user switching"?

Using switching is where you have a few people logged into OSX at once and you can move between them with that fancy rotating screen thing (essential here, as I can't afford to buy more than one Mac Pro!). It works great for everything on our production machines... apart from Espons TWAIN scanner drivers that crash every single time. Useless. This is hardly a new feature, and a feature very likely to be used by home users where their Macs are shared between family members... but, apparently Epson feel that everyone should completely sign out of their account and log in again if they want to switch users.

I was going to send our Epson RX640 back to Apple in disgust (it was bundled with our Mac Pro) until I discovered VueScan. VueScan is great, and no stupid crashing drivers & it's perfectly happy with user switching.


I've tried VueScan (for film scanning) a couple of times over the years and I've found NikonScan to be simpler and more intuitive. However, I do realize that VueScan has an excellent reputation. Guess I found the learning curve not worth the effort.

To be honest, whatever works. So long as I can get the image into PhotoShop, it doesn't matter too much to me. I'd never have tried VS if the Epson drivers had worked *shrug*, but VS is good at what it does.
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