2 Choose Image > Acquire > TWAIN Acquire. A dialog box for the scanner you are using appears. Refer to the scanner’s user manual for information on scanner options. 3 Select the options you want in the scanner dialog box. •   Click Prescan to view a preview of the image. You can ver- ify that the image is aligned and completely visible and reposition it if necessary. •   Depending on the available options, you can adjust scaling and brightness of the image. 4 Click Scan to begin scanning. When the scanner finishes, the scanned image appears in the active Canvas document. Using scanners with plug-in acquire modules Canvas is a plug-in host program, which means that you can use scanners that work with acquire modules that are Photoshop plug-in compatible. You first should install the acquire module for your scan- ner so it is available to Canvas. Once Canvas recognizes an acquire module, its name appears in the Image > Acquire submenu. To locate the plug-ins folder for Canvas Canvas looks for plug-ins, including acquire modules, in the Canvas Tools folder. To tell Canvas to look for plug-ins in another location, use the Plug-ins button on the Painting tab in the Preferences dialog box. 1 Choose Canvas > Preferences (Mac) or File > Preferences (Windows). 2 In the Preferences dialog box, click the Painting tab and then click the Plug-ins button. 3 In the directory dialog box, navigate to the folder where plug- ins are stored on your hard disk. Click the button labeled Select folder name” (Mac), or select a plug-in module and click Open (Windows). 4 Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box. 5 Exit and then re-start Canvas to activate the plug-in modules. Acquiring multi-frame GIF files When you acquire a GIF file with multiple frames, Canvas displays a dialog box so you can choose which frames to acquire. Enter a range Tip For Mac OS 9, choose File > Preferences to access the Pref- erences dialog box.
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