I’ve used Photoshop throughout the years and have never had this problem till now. The way it used to happen was I’d open up Photoshop, go to File>Import>Scanner in the menu and it would open up my scanning options. After I upgraded, it dosen’t recognize my scanner anymore! (Canon LIDE 600F)
After digging around the web for a while I found the problem and solution which I’ll run though here.
The Problem
Photoshop doesn’t scan. Photoshop itself has no scanning interface, and knows nothing about how to talk to a scanner.
Photoshop indirectly calls the scanner drivers installed by your scanner manufacturer through a standard interface known as TWAIN.
Unfortunately, the drivers have increasingly been crashing due to bugs in the drivers — causing a lot of headaches for Photoshop users and developers.
So, rather than suffer crashes, we moved the TWAIN plugin to an optional install.
The scanning program that comes with your scanner is the same software that Photoshop was calling through the driver.
The Solution
- Add TWAIN.plugin file in the
APPLICATIONS / ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 / PLUG-INS / IMPORT-EXPORT folder.
relaunch photoshop.
I’ve not had any problems with my scanner driver as of yet. Hopefully this helps someone Cheers!
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Great articles on color theory from Smashing Magazine
Part 1, Part 2
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I’m going to start doing tutorials every so often for my friends that like to mess around on the computer. This tutorial will focus on creating a seamless background for the web. I guess you’ll need to know the basics of how to use photoshop, but it should be simple enough to follow along. If you have any questions email/comment and i’ll try to get back to you.
Alright, so I started with an image that I drew for a valentines day card that I never used.
As you can see its just one graphic that I want to create an offset pattern with. This will also work with photos or textures that you grab. You’ll just have to do some clone stamping and patching to get it to line up correctly.
STEP 1:
Align the graphic to the center of your canvas and copy the graphic layer to create two of the same graphic overlaying each other.
Step 2:
Click on the middle layer and use the Offset Filter. Its located under FILTERS/OTHER/OFFSET in the top menu bar. Because my canvas size is 300×300px, I offset it Horizontal:150px and Vertical:150px. Be sure the Wrap Around Radio button is checked. Click OK. Now your image should look like this.
Step 3:
Now we have our tile. You can shrink it down to whatever size you want and save it as a .gif or .jpg to use as a seamless web background.
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