Not to get too far OT Just Shoot Me, but the scanner driver has _everything_ to do with the version of PS req'd. Canon's scanner API (and pretty much everything else) is notoriously proprietary. Its not fully supported by most third party scanner software now, and wasn't at all many years ago. So the _only_ option to get full feature support was to use their driver. More importantly, the last time I looked even solid options like Silverfast (which still only offer "32-bit support") had _no_ support for FARE (Canon's version of Digital ICE) and not having this was simply _not_ an option. The only driver Canon ever released for the 9950F was a 32-bit version, and this _requires_ a 32-bit application, hence my need for the 32-bit PS for importing scans. In this regard my copy of PSE 4 is _far_ superior to the current PS 19.0. ... View more

+1 As a casual amateur user, spending $250 a year for the "privilege" of using Adobe products to maintain a collection of maybe 50k family photos is entirely out of the question. For something I only use maybe once or twice a month, I can barely justify $120/yr as it is! No thanks. I'll gladly use a reasonably priced competitive product and accept the compromises. And the quality of the software I get for my $10/mo now leaves much to be desired. The only version of 32-bit Photoshop I can get (req'd for my Canon 9950F scanner driver compatibility) is some completely unstable, bug-ridden "x.0" mess of a release that can't even be patched or updated. The only way these patent hogging crooks are going to get the message is if folks just plain stop buying their stuff. Period. Good bye and good riddance, Adobe! ... View more