The Photoshop Productivity Series: Automating Photoshop

Crop and Straighten Photos

The Crop and Straighten Photos command automatically detects multiple images on a page, and then separates and straighten them. This function is designed for use with a scanner. You place multiple photos on a scanner, scan them all at once, and then open the file in Photoshop. You don’t even have to worry about placing them carefully or straight—Photoshop takes care of that. The only things you have to worry about is leaving space between the photos so Photoshop can detect the edges. (If necessary, place a darker piece of paper behind the photos to create enough contrast to detect the edges.)

Figure 1.4 shows a scan of several photos; notice how I didn’t even worry about trying to straighten the photos.

Figure 1.4 ...