Expert: Candice Anderson - 6/20/2006

Question
Thanks so much for the quick response.  The scanner just feeds one photo at a time through the machine.  I would hope I could just import once and after photoshop did it's magic I would end up with all ten photos opened up in photoshop.  Does that sound like what will probably happen?  Thanks again for the gresat advice.    Bruce
-------------------------

Followup To

Question -
Hello:  Just found this site and it's a great service.  Hope you can help, any advice is appreciated.  I am new to Photoshop but I would like  to scan in my family photos and edit them.  I came across an older scanner that has a photo feeder that can scan a stack of 15-20 pictures.  It doesn't have the scanning software but It does have the twain driver.  My question is if I use Photoshop and the Scanner's Twain driver to import the images from the scanner, will photoshop be able to keep up with the scanner?  In other words if I put a stack of ten photos in and tell photoshop to import, will all ten photos from the scanner end up in photoshop or do I have to import ten times?  If so I would be better off with a new flat bed scanner. Basically I want to bring them all in as fast as possible and save them as Tiffs and or Jpegs and edit.   Thanks, Bruce

Answer -
hey there,

I honestly have never played with a scanner that can do 10 at a time, how neat :).

Photoshop can take it, its the RAM in your computer that you need to worry about.  If you have a small amount, like anything below 516, it might take a few minutes for it all to come through.  anything higher, you're good.

The drivers: go get them.  From past experience, I have found that photoshop does not get along with non driver scanners.  You can probably get them from the scanner's company's website.  They are free. Try it with just the twain first, you might have good luck. If it shows signs of lagging, go get the drivers.

have fun

Candice :)

Answer
hey there,

My guess is that with very expensive machines, more than a flatbed, you can do this, but again, I've never dealt with one.  I know some copy machines do it.  They are nice enough that you can scan the photo and save it to a disk.  However, unless it's something fancy. I think yours will only do one at a time. Again, though if you have a lot of RAM and space on  your computer, the scanner will scan quickly.

Candice