No color when scanning a photo

I cannot seem to scan color photos to my Mac, everything is in grey scale and I have no idea how it happened or how to correct it. I am using an IMAC 3.2

Okay, took a bit to find it, but I think this is it:
For Mac OSX 10.9  It's around the 0:57 mark in the video... the drop down field "Kind" has to be selected as "Color"
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