Instruction manual

Service Pack 4 or later and Internet Explorer

4.0 or later are required with Windows NT

4.0.

Pentium processor

Color monitor with 256-color (8 bit) or greater video card

and 800 X 600 or greater monitor resolution.

Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, Me, 2000,

NT 4.0, or XP.

GETTING STARTED

Take time to register your copy of Photoshop Elements with Adobe. Read the instructions in the

registration folder located in the technical-information folder on the Adobe Photoshop Elements

CD-ROM.

Installing Adobe Photoshop Elements

PC / AT compatible computers

PowerPC processor.

150 MB of available hard disk space

Macintosh computers

Mac OS 8.6, 9.0, 9.0.4, or 9.1

(Adobe Photoshop Elements is not native to

Mac OS X).

64 MB of RAM. 64 MB of RAM (with virtual memory on).

Files saved with a 16-bit or 16-bit linear color depth cannot be opened in Adobe Photoshop

Elements. Read the setting scanner preferences section on page 45.

Macintosh

Insert the Adobe Photoshop Elements CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. Double-click the CD-

ROM icon on the desktop. Open the appropriate language folder, then the Adobe Photoshop

Elements folder. Double-click the Install Photoshop Elements icon. Follow the instructions on the

screen to continue installation.

Windows

Insert the Adobe Photoshop Elements CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. Adobe Photoshop

Elements AutoPlay screen will appear. Follow the instructions on the screen to install the software.

After accepting the end-user license agreement, click the explore button on the next screen to

open the read-me file for special installation instructions before continuing.

The scanner utility software contains a plug-in module that can be installed in the Photoshop

Elements import/export folder located in the plug-in folder. This will allow the scanner utility soft-

ware to be opened from Photoshop Elements.

Launch Adobe Photoshop Elements. Select

DS Dual3 (Windows) or DS Dual3 Plug-in

(Macintosh) from the import command on the

file menu.

Launching the scanner utility from Photoshop Elements