Scanner & Camera Wizard Win XP - not in Vista

[Cinde]

I’ve been using the Scanner & Camera Wizard on my Win XP desktop. From what I’ve read online it isn’t on my Vista laptop.

It’s not necessarily the Camera Wizard that I really need, but rather the Scanner Wizard.

Most of my clients provide me with photos to be scanned in the order they give them to me (numbered with a post-it on the back). With the Wizard I specify the file they should go into and give the first one a name. Thereafter I scan them one at a time and each one is auto-named with sequential numbers added to the end. A couple of clicks and the next one is ready to scan…. It isn’t an option to put multiple photos at the same time on the scanner glass.

The XP Scanner Wizard also lets me preview the size of each pic that I scan and I can easily set the outside edges of the scan so that the whole glass bed isn’t scanned. This saves a lot of crop time later and each file size is smaller.

Is there a similar program that will allow me to do this? I don’t want to manually name each photo as it is scanned, or open a photo program and tell it to get a photo from the scanner for each new scan.

[Chuck Engels]

Cinde, do you have Photoshop Elements?
Photoshop Elements works even better than any other scanner software I've seen.

[Cinde]

Chuck, I do have PSE 5 & 7 (have 8 but not yet installed.)

I’m still laughing as I type this… At the moment I don’t have client photos to scan. I just came home from our store and was working on our daily bank deposit… there is this stack of money by my keyboard so I put a bill in to test the scanner… And I got a popup that said… “this action does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images” I might be a nincompoop at a lot of things, but trying to be a counterfeiter is not one of them! With security like that on a software program, I'm just wondering when the little Treasury Agent will come crawling through my monitor with a cease and desist order.

I did manage to do a PSE 7 trial run on some junk mail sale catalog pages and now I’m like…
DUH! I’ve had this program at my fingertips all the time and had never used it!!!

[Chuck Engels]

Be careful scanning money or the will get you.
Then you will be on naughty list

Glad you like the scanning capability of Photoshop Elements Cinde

[Clayton]

there is this stack of money by my keyboard

I thought you were going to say this stack of money had eyes and was staring at you

[Cinde]

I thought you were going to say this stack of money had eyes and was staring at you

Now I'm really "watchful" about what I do!