My New Mac, Lion 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 Applications in the Finder sidebar. The contents of the Applications folder appear.

4. Double-click the Image Capture icon. The Image Capture window appears.

5. Click the Scan button. The scanned image appears, as shown in Figure 33-3. Your selected image is automatically saved to the Pictures folder. (You may want to rename this file since ...