Importing Photos from Your Scanner

Because this is a book for digital photographers, I imagine most of your photos will come from a digital camera (if so, see "Saving Your Digital Negatives"), but if you've been a photographer for a while now, you probably have some traditional prints lying around that you'd like to scan in, so here we'll look at importing scanned images into the Organizer.

Step One

To scan images and have them appear in your Organizer, click the Photo Browser button in the Elements Editor's task bar (above the Options Bar) to launch the Organizer. Then in the Organizer's task bar (above the Timeline), click on the Get Photos button (it looks like a digital camera icon) and choose From Scanner. By the way, once the Organizer is open, you can use the shortcut Control-U to import photos from your scanner.

Step Two

Once the Get Photos from Scanner dialog is open, choose your scanner from the Scanner pop-up menu. Choose a high Quality setting (I generally choose the highest quality unless the photo is for an email to my insurance company for a claimthen I'm not as concerned). Then click OK to bring in the scanned photo. See, pretty straightforward stuff.