2
Choose Image > Acquire > TWAIN Acquire. A dialog box for
the scanner you are using appears. Refer to the scanners user manual
for information on scanner options.
3
Select the options you want in the scanner dialog box.
Click Prescan to view a preview of the image. You can ver-
ify that the image is aligned and completely visible and
reposition it if necessary.
Depending on the available options, you can adjust scaling
and brightness of the image.
4
Click Scan to begin scanning. When the scanner finishes, the
scanned image appears in the active Canvas document.
Using scanners with plug-in acquire modules
Canvas is a plug-in host program, which means that you can use
scanners that work with acquire modules that are Photoshop plug-in
compatible. You first should install the acquire module for your scan-
ner so it is available to Canvas. Once Canvas recognizes an acquire
module, its name appears in the Image > Acquire submenu.
To locate the plug-ins folder for Canvas
Canvas looks for plug-ins, including acquire modules, in the Canvas
Tools folder. To tell Canvas to look for plug-ins in another location,
use the Plug-ins button on the Painting tab in the Preferences dialog
box.
1
Choose Canvas > Preferences (Mac) or File > Preferences
(Windows).
2
In the Preferences dialog box, click the Painting tab and then
click the Plug-ins button.
3
In the directory dialog box, navigate to the folder where plug-
ins are stored on your hard disk. Click the button labeled Select
folder name (Mac), or select a plug-in module and click Open
(Windows).
4
Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
5
Exit and then re-start Canvas to activate the plug-in modules.
Acquiring multi-frame GIF files
When you acquire a GIF file with multiple frames, Canvas displays a
dialog box so you can choose which frames to acquire. Enter a range
Tip
For Mac OS 9, choose File >
Preferences to access the Pref-
erences dialog box.