Scanning to photoshop elements from scanner

Question

I seem to have misplaced my previous posting on same subject.
Although I can scan from PE 4.0 using my HP 8250 Scanner, I am unable to add
PE 4.0 to the Destination list of the scanner so that I can initiate a scan
to PE from the scanner buttons. I have spent several hours trying to scope
this out but information seems illusive. Can anybody help me add Photoshop
Elements 4.0 to the Destination list of the HP 8250 Scanner?
Thanks in advance.
Barry

Answer 1

Thanks for the links.  I will look at that.<br /><br />I have continued to try to scope this out myself since I posted the <br />question.  There is a learning curve involved here and I did find out a few <br />things that I thought I would mention which might clarify this problem.  It <br />did for me, anyway.<br /><br /> When one first installs the scanner and its software and then pushes the <br />various scanner buttons, a small window comes up and asks which of the <br />following programs do you want this button to activate.   After selecting a <br />program you then can click "do not show this again" button, which apparently <br />I had done in the past.  So I had forgotten and was unaware of that <br />window..........but now  know that Photoshop Elements does come up in that <br />window and I could have chosen it to open when that button is pushed.  When <br />it does open Elements it doesn't do a scan automatically but the scanner <br />does respond to the scanner options in Elements.    Elements was not on my <br />computer when I installed the scanner and so I chose to use the HP scanner <br />software and also checked off "don't show this window again" and therefore <br />when I press on the button the HP scanner software opens.<br /><br />Since I didn't remember that, my question had to do with the next step. <br />After you use the HP software to automatically scan, when you accept the <br />scan, another window opens to ask where you want the scan to go, and <br />although the Adobe Photodeluxe program is listed along with Word, and <br />several other programs, Photoshop elements is not listed there.  So in <br />effect, I can use the HP Software  to do the scan and adjust resolution, <br />etc, but then I can't send the accepted scan to Elements.  That's what I was <br />asking about.<br /><br />I did do an entire uninstall of the HP software and then manually removed <br />any residue (HPSJ programs)  and then did a full reinstall.   That is how I <br />found out about the button choice window which I did not remember from <br />before.   But when I did a scan using the HP software and then pushed the <br />accepted button, the Destination list that came up again did not include <br />Elements.    Of course, there are workarounds such as saving the scan to a <br />file and then opening it in Elements......or just going to elements and <br />initiating the scan from there and I probably will end up doing one or the <br />other.............just a matter of principle that Elements should be treated <br />as equally as Photodeluxe and all the other programs already on the <br />destination list.<br /><br />Thanks for your interest.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><[email protected]> wrote in message <br />news:[email protected]...<br />> Barry,<br />><br />> There were several discussions some time ago about the sequence in which <br />> Elements and scanner software were installed. If you are comfortable with <br />> this give it a try.<br />><br />> Uninstall the scanner and all related software. Either use a registry <br />> cleaner like the ones found in CCleaner:<br />><br />> <a href=http://www.ccleaner.com/><br />><br />> or Easycleaner:<br />><br />> <a href=http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm><br />><br />> or both (they're free) to get rid of any leftover entries, delete any left <br />> over folders and then reinstall the scanner. It may find PE<br />> and add it to the available list.<br />><br />> Bob