My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Transferring Images from a Scanner

If you have a scanner, you can capture images from books, magazines, or old photographs and store them on your Macintosh. To use a scanner and save an image to your Macintosh, you need to use the Image Capture program by doing the following:

1. Turn on your scanner and place the item you want to scan on the scanner bed.

2. Click the Finder icon on the Dock. The Finder window appears.

3. Click the Applications folder. The contents of the Applications folder appear.

4. Double-click the Image Capture icon. The Image Capture window appears. (If a scanned image doesn't appear, click the Overview button.)

5. Drag the mouse to select the part of the image you want to capture, as shown in Figure 26-3.

   Figure 26-3. To scan an image, you must ...