On Oct 28, 2005, at 4:31 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
If she saves the scans as jpegs to a folder on her hard drive,
she can use the import command in iPhoto to load them. That
way she'll have original scans in a separate folder.
Way too complex for this particular user. She really needs a single
application in which she can do the scanning, minor image corrections
(like most "mainstream" camera users, she wants to be able to edit out
red-eye), printing and archiving (including CD-ROM).
iPhoto does not have an "Import" command that I'm aware. In the
latest iPhoto (v5.0.4), there is the menu command "File->Add to
Library..." which replaces the more standard "File->Open..." command.
Even easier is:
1) create a folder
2) scan the images, save the scans to that folder
3) start iPhoto
4) drag the folder onto iPhoto
That doesn't seem all that complicated. If a user doesn't understand
how to create a folder, save files into it, then drag and drop the
folder to a window, they probably don't know how to use the computer:
these are very basic skills. I don't know of any software that makes
this less difficult.
Perhaps the HP software itself will do all this in one application? I
don't know since I don't use an HP scanner and have no access to
their delivered software.
Godfrey
