Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Chapter 3: Rotating and Resizing Your Photos 65

Rotating Your Images

2. Divide, straighten, and crop the individual photos.

Go to Image ➝ Divide Scanned Photos. Sit back and enjoy the view as Elements

carefully calculates, splits, straightens out, and trims each image. You’ll see the

individual photos appear and disappear as Elements works through the group.

3. Name and save each separated image.

When Elements is done, you’ll have the original group scan as one image and a

separate image file for each photo Elements has carved out. Once you’re done,

import the cut-apart photos into the Organizer. To do that, just make sure that

“Include in Organizer” is turned on in the Save As dialog box (page 52).

Elements usually does a crackerjack job splitting your photos, but once in a while it

chokes, leaving you with an image file that contains more than one photo.

Figure 3-2 shows you what to do when Elements doesn’t succeed in splitting things

up.

NOTE Occasionally you may find that Elements can’t accurately separate a group scan, no mat-

ter what you do. In that case, use the Marquee tool (page 113) to select each individual image,

paste it into its own document (File

➝ New ➝ Image from Clipboard), and then save it.

Straightening Individual Photos

Elements can also straighten out and crop (trim) a single scanned image. Simply

choose Image ➝ Rotate ➝ Straighten and Crop Image, and Elements tidies things ...