but for some reason I can never get color to come out in the right>> John this may not be your trouble but change the format you are saving the pictures in, some scanned photos do not look good in some formats, try TIF, JPEG, BIT, if you can try them all. the only thing I can say is watch how much space they take up and if your going to e-mail them the smaller the better<BG> Now while I was writing, the photos that we have scanned into FTW look terrible until they are opened, blown up, small on the photo album the color all run together. We have two scanners, one Easy Photo, and one HP 3200C, if not saved in the correct format they look bad<BG> boyd in Astoria, Or-e-gun