Scanning a Picture

A scanner is an excellent tool for digitizing images and making them available on your computer. Windows Vista provides access to your scanner directly from the Windows Photo Gallery, provided the scanner uses a Windows Acquisition driver (WIA) rather than a TWAIN driver. The New Scan dialog box adapts to the specific features of your scanner, so the options you see in the dialog box might be a bit different from those described here.

Scan a Picture

In Windows Photo Gallery, click the down arrow next to the File button, and choose Import From Camera Or Scanner from the drop-down menu to display the Import Pictures And Videos dialog box.

Double-click your scanner to display the New Scan dialog box.

Make any changes you want to the scanner settings.

Click Preview to do a quick scan of the picture and to preview it. Make any setting changes, such as brightness, that you want, and click Preview again.

Drag the selection rectangle, if necessary, to limit the scan to your picture.

Click Scan, and wait for the picture to be scanned.

In the Importing Pictures And Videos dialog box that appears, type a tag for the picture, or select a tag from the drop-down list to classify the picture and provide a name for the file.

Click Import to import the picture onto your computer and into Photo Gallery.