Importing image from a scanner

[Merok1]

How do I import an image from a scanner?

[walt.farrell]

For Mac: https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/GetStarted/scanningImages.html

For Windows: Scan and save using the software provided with your scanner, or with other software. There are commercial scanning packages such as VueScan, or on Windows 10 you can try Windows Fax and Scan, on Windows 10. Then Open the scanned image in your Affinity application. (With some packages, such as VueScan, you may be able to have Affinity open the image automatically after you save it.)

[Merok1]

Hi Walt,

Thanks for your advice, when I tried it, it worked!

I am rather surprised that Serif left out the scan option they had in Page Plus and Photo Plus, it would have made it easier and more direct.

All the best for Christmas and 2020,

Merok 1 (Bertie)

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome, Bertie.

Serif have said that they left out scanning in the Windows version of Affinity Photo as it is a 64-bit application (unlike their older applications), and the Windows 64-bit driver support for scanners is quite poor.

[Mignolyx]

MI sembra vergognoso che non si possa scannerizzare direttamente dal Affinity Photo. Davvero, la trovo una mancanza grave per un software di questo livello

[PaulEC]

31 minutes ago, Mignolyx said:

MI sembra vergognoso che non si possa scannerizzare direttamente dal Affinity Photo. Davvero, la trovo una mancanza grave per un software di questo livello

Please read Walt's post above. The problem is due to Windows lack of scanner support, not Serif.

Personally I've always found it better to scan using the scanner's software, rather than taking a shortcut and scanning directly into any application.