How to get a Canon scanner to work. In Photoshop. For dummies. Like me
| July 11th, 2009I’m going to describe what I did to get my Canon LIDE 700F to work with Adobe’s Creative Suite 4. Because extensive googling, binging or praying did not reveal anything useful. It is only through utter persistance that the answer came.
I am going to assume that you have your CS4 installation discs at hand. I am going to assume that you did not use less than standard methods for obtaining your Adobe product. Because you are going to need a very particular file, on a very particular disc in the box to make it work. So if you fall into the pirate category, matey, you might have to just understand the principle and then figure it out for yourself. But then, you are that kind of person who can do that, right?
Step 1: Follow the steps to install the Canon software. You may choose the custom install, and only choose the Scangear installer. No photo-editing software Canon provides on their little disc is going to out-awesome Photoshop.
Step 2: Insert the disc labelled ‘Content’. Browse to [language:English] -> Goodies -> Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended -> Optional plug-ins -> Import-Export
Step 3: Drag the file ‘TWAIN.plugin’ into the following folder on your machine in the ‘Applications’: Adobe Photoshop CS4 -> Plug-ins -> Import-Export
Step 4: Restart Adobe Photoshop. Open File -> Import-Export.
The scanner will show up in there, as if by magic.
Enjoy.
