ATTENTION PHOTOSHOP USERS! TWAIN MALFUNCTION
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I bought this scanner for a business trip, when I knew I would absolutely need to scan images, and couldn't bring my all-in-one Epson printer with me.
The set-up was really easy, but THEN...
I have a Mac Powerbook G 4. I usually scan directly into photoshop, using the twain import function. I tried to do the same with this scanner, and lo and behold... Photoshop would not recognize the scanner for some time, until it crashed entirely: not only could I not scan the images I needed to work on urgently, but I could not even open photoshop anymore. It crashed, everytime I tried to open it, while opening twain...
I called customer service as soon as I realized that photoshop wasn't recognizing the scanner. It was the beiginning of a 6 hours adventure on the phone with various customer services at Epson and Photoshop. Epson kept putting me on hold.... for 30 to 60 min. at a time, passing me on to various useless cutomer service representatives, to whom I had to repeat the same information over and over again, until I finally got to the "specialist" (the same one each time). It was when I was on the phone with him the first time that Photoshop crashed entirely. When it happened and I communicated that to him, the line miraculously broke off! I had to call again, put on hold again, passed through all the loops again, got that same specialist, gave my "case number" again, started menionning the photoshop problem and.... THE LINE CUT OFF AGAIN!!
This happened three times in total.
They finally said  "the scanner is working, it is a problem with photoshop... call them"
The worst part of it is: the scanner comes with a cd of photoshop elements 3.0... I would think that since they send the photoshop cd along with the scanner, the two are compatible! I installed the photoshop elements hoping that I could at least use that during my stay out of town... same problem. When I called photoshop to try to understand what the problem was, they asked me to register the Photoshop Elements 3.0... I gave the serial number, and they refused to help me out because the product had already been registered... BY EPSON!!

Did I hear someone mention Kafka?

SOLUTION: if this problem happened to you, I finally found a semi-resolution on the internet, in five minutes (after my lost day on the phone): you have to disable twain from your Photoshop Applications folder:
Mac HD> Applications > Adobe Photoshop > Plug-ins > Import/Export > Twain
Just rename the Twain by adding a ~ infront of it (call it ~twain) and it disables it... you won't be able to import anything via phhotoshop, but at least your photoshop will be working again!

Apart from that, the scanner works fine.
Moral of the story: back from my business trip, I found my Epson all-in-one printer having died during my trip (an interesting coincidence). I bought an HP in replacement and will return the scanner as well. I am done with Epson forever.
221122
As many others have noted, the images that this application produces are useless. The very first attempt came up as corrupted. I'm not very happy with Acronis either, but at least you can open an image and retrieve a file. Still on the hunt for a consistently workable piece of imaging software that executes properly every time. I would think that the underpinnings of "Windows" are fairly predictable at this point - someone should be able to get it right!
2885160
It appears that the collimation/alignment is off, I googled a bit and found some vids explaining how to fix it myself, though I may call around some camera shops (if any still exist) and see it they know how to fix this.
Fun fact, many of the videos are of this exact model... buyer beware...
4300573
My scanner inserts a horizontal line across every image (on slides as well as negatives).  When the film is turned upside down the line appears in a new location on the image, confirming that the line is being made by the machine and is not an artifact of the slides and negatives.  Tech support suggested looking for updated drivers, but the driver load process uninstalls the original software without reloading the updated software.  This is the 2nd Plustek scanner I've owned (the other was a brand new 7100 purchased from Amazon 10 years ago) and the software has always been less than high quality (think less Adobe Photoshop and more Microsoft Paint in its simplicity), but at the very least it has been simple enough to get decent images when functioning.  Even the help menu to check for driver updates doesn't appear on the software interface until after you run a scan (another software glitch - more nuisance).  Sloppy software, patch process and sloppy quality scanner.  Unfortunately I'll have to rescan all my images once I get a new machine.  Save time and invest in something other than Plustek.  They haven't improved much in the past 10 years.
1313773
The photo fell off and was lost.  I noticed other customers had the same issue.  A refund should be issued or a replacement.
4066755
You might as well copy and paste the image, then blow it up And print on canvas. I can count the pixels:
4450269
Bought it at Walmart which was probably the first indication that this thing is annoying. I've never used other digital frames so maybe it's a general thing, but it's annoying as hell trying to get all my pictures to display correctly. I think these things should be able to resize it internally even if it doesn't fill the full screen. I realize that the majority of horizontal photos will work, but what I said before should occur for the inevitable vertical photos that people will want to put in it.
549343
First off, let me say I've used Wacoms for years on both Windows and Mac machines. Wacom makes great products, but right now there has been a severe driver issue on Mac OS (Windows too but enough other posters mentioned those) and they need fixed.

If you are on Snow Leopard, buy this tablet and enjoy it. Its a great tablet especially when you get the express keys configured. If you are on Lion or Mountain Lion, read on before considering this purchase.

Wacom has known about an issue where after using an express key, any input from the pen (or even your mouse!) is ignored immediately afterwards. I've filed numerous reports and so have others on the forums. These appear to fall on deaf ears.

Imagine working in Photoshop, ZBrush, or Corel Painter and after every single click of a modifier key you have to swipe the pen a few times to get it to register (this is particularly terrible for ZBrush users!). Thats the bug, and its crippling to work with. This bug has been around since the beginning of Lion and is still not fixed. You can read all about the bug here if you wish: [...]
Rolling back to an earlier driver doesn't work, neither does any of the other numerous fixes listed on any site.

Until Wacom fixes this bug, I suggest you look elsewhere for your tablet needs.

EDIT: I don't know if this works on all tablets but for the Intuos 4 and the Cintiq it appears that if you use driver 6.1.7-5 (an OLD driver) you will have no lag in Lion or Mountain Lion. I am still keeping Wacom 1 star rating until this is fixed with a proper driver. Once its fixed I'll give the product 5 stars.
3614418
Unable to use and separate the macro lens for close up photos.
2129952
I used PaintShop Pro 8 for years, but recently upgraded to a newer version of Windows. PSP 8 is buggy with Windows 7, so I had to also upgrade to a newer version of PSP. I'm somewhat disappointed in X6 for several reasons:

1. The software includes annoying ads that pop up frequently when you exit the program. There appears to be no way to disable the ads based on forum discussions on the Corel website. Ads in a paid product are unacceptable, especially when there was no warning they were present. I would have looked for other software if I had known.

2. The crop feature is shoddy compared to PSP 8. I found it much easier to precisely position and size the lines with the crop tool in the older version. The crop tool in this version has a mind of its own. I always seem to position the lines a little too narrow or wide. I have cropped tens of thousands of images over the years and could do so with precision in PSP 8, so this is a very annoying change. One of the bugs with PSP 8 is that it crashes intermittently when using the crop tool in Windows 7. I have usually found it more efficient to deal with crashes of the older version rather than use X6 for cropping. Hopefully, that gives you an idea of how bad the crop tool has become.

3. Zoom with the scroll wheel is shaky. The zoom in PSP 8 worked very smoothly to the point that I didn't have to move the scroll bars around to view the area of the image I needed. In other words, it zoomed in exactly where I wanted. With the new version I always have to move the scroll bars to view the part of the image I'm editing. That's an extra step that adds significant time when you have hundreds or thousands of images to edit.

It's possible some of the changes above occurred in past versions, but these are still annoyances compared to PSP 8. That version of the program worked well for me for a decade, so it's a disappointment that the software has decreased in usability.
3793159
My son gave me this for Christmas and loaded a few JPEG's on the flash card; I was quite impressed until...

I spent some time culling through my own library of pictures, loaded about 150 onto the flash only to find that about one third of them didn't work. When I looked at them in the thumb view they said "unrecognized format". It turned out that these picture were ones that I edited using Photoshop LE or Elements. Since I regularly spruce up my digital pictures this is a huge problem.

Note that most image capture devices such as digital cameras and scanners that write to a JPEG file are actually creating a file in the JFIF and/or Exif format and the JFIF and Exif standards are incompatible. So a JPEG "decoder" needs to be flexible enough to decode both formats. In reality there are other variations in JPEG encoding which must be "sniffed out" by the decoder to allow it to work.

It appears that the decoder in this product is a bare bones decoder, adequate if you're just loading whatever came from the camera but completely lacking if you use photo editing software.

Bottom line is this is only a product for folks that don't edit.

My son is in the process of arranging with Amazon to return this.

One last comment, the support for this product is terrible.
2634033
Much much much cleaner image than the V1 camera BUT had some focus issues. I fixed this by printing a special wrench that allowed me to rotate the lens and adjust the focus as close as 2cm. If anyone is looking for the wrenches, the print file can be found here: [...]. If you don't have access to a printer to print one, send me an email at brandeburgnate@gmail.com and I'll print and send a few out. Limiting my gratuity to 5 so be quick! I'll edit this review once this offer is no longer available!

All wrenches I was giving away have been claimed! Sorry if you missed it but I hope you enjoy your rPi Camera v2!
- Nate
1841004
PhotoImpact 8 has been patched, but my issues (see my earlier review "Wait for the patch release") have not been corrected. I found no change in the performance or behavior (inability to echo keystrokes) in Unsharp Mask. And I was looking for one of two responses to the pressing Enter to activate a crop issue (the word Enter is missing in my earlier review because I naively surrounded it with angle brackets): 1) make it work, or 2) Update the manual and on-line help to stop saying it does.
I agree with the other reviewers that this is an amazing product for the money. Unfortunately, Ulead has clearly demonstrated to me that they have poor communication between Engineering, email support, phone support, documentation, and their customers. My installation, support, and functionality problems destroyed my confidence in the company and the product. The failure to include an Unsharp Mask fix (or rollback to PhotoImpact 7 functionality which was excellent) further undermined my confidence. I now consider PhotoImpact an amusing toy.
I mentioned in my earlier review that I owned other photo editors and was looking at Photoshop. My conclusions: I bought and love Photoshop (and the third-party books that support it); I'm giving away my copy of Paint Shop Pro (the file browser trashes Windows XP's ability to show you EXIF data in JPEGs); I'm hanging on to my copy of Photoshop Elements 2.0 (it was practically free and works much like it's big brother); and am keeping PhotoImpact because of all the stuff it contains -- and they just might fix Unsharp Mask. I sold the five books I had on PhotoImpact/Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop Elements. My digital editing library is now exclusively focused on Photoshop and my 3 Megabyte JPEGs and I no longer wait for PhotoImpact 8's Unsharp Mask.
4261835
Can't get one straight scan without some kind of black border.

Maybe it's me but I think this thing is terrible (using it on a MAC) I have not gotten one page to scan straight. It looks like it goes through straight but when I view the PDF/JPEG, it is slightly crooked with a black border on the top and or bottom and left and or right side. Tried every setting, auto, custom, different paper sizes, offset. All I'm trying to do is get organized (8 1/2 X 11 paper). Attached is the best I could get. I don't have time to rescan a page over and over again trying to get it straight. Sorry, but if I'm paying money for something, it better be prefect. Guess I'll try my luck with a flatbed scanner.
4331538
Once a new user gets past the confusing incompleteness of the accompanying instructions, does some trial-and-error work with it, the user discovers a very functional device that is eas and efficient to use. It's true that the initial JPEG images produced may appear murky, which likely las to do with the way the JPEG format "reads" the saturation of a slide transparency. Using iPhoto, I have had great success "correcting" this saturation - along with color balance (which can be highly variable depending on slide film used - e.g. Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fujichrome) and bringing forward shadowed or darkened areas or "colorizing" highlighted areas. I have no doubt that the more sophisticated resources of, say, Photoshop, would yield even better results for those experienced with such programs. I have made a couple of test prints from the JPEGs I've produced, and they compare favorably - and in a couple of cases are better - than prints made some time ago directly from the slides.
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I love Julie Blackmon's work and I wanted to love this book. She has made some of the best photos (in terms of the originals) I've seen in a very long time. The tragedy is printing images across the gutter (or center) of the book, which destroys the integrity of the images for the sake of making them larger. Knowing what they should look like and seeing how they look in this book, I had no choice but to return it.
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Update:

I used the FastStone tool to re-size my pictures (instead of Google Picasa) and the Nix frame seems to be working fine.  FastStone is the tool recommended on the Nix website ... don't know why Google Picassa didn't work.

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I re-sized pictures to be 800p using Picasa before using them with the frame.  I configured the Nix to "Fit To Screen".  Turns out that a small percentage of the pictures are badly distorted when they're displayed, including pictures in landscape mode that should not need to be re-sized.  These re-sized pictures display fine on other devices.

The frame also includes what appears to be a "focus" display moment (1/10 sec) as some landscape 800 pixel pictures are displayed.