Do You Still Scan Photos With A Flatbed Scanner?
September 1, 2007 – 3:26 pmMy cousin was scanning a bunch of photos into into his computer using a flatbed scanner. For each page of scanned photos, I saw that he was cropping and rotating them by hand. I showed him this easy to use automated method using Photoshop CS2. Following is a short video that shows you how to do that quickly.
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1. Scan photos using your flatbed scanner and import to Photoshop
2. Select->All
3. File->Automate->Crop and Straighten Photos
4. Done
If you just want to crop and straighten select photos, use any select tool to select just those photos and proceed to step 3.
The following video shows you what these steps look like.
This was created using the free CamStudio. Depending on feedback, I may add some caption effects and voice overs to the next video tutorial.
13 Responses to “Do You Still Scan Photos With A Flatbed Scanner?”
I love my Canon MP700. It has software that applies Multicrop before you scan. I’ve scanned 1000+ photos this summer and it saved me a bunch of time.
By metkillerjoe on Sep 2, 2007
Vista? yuck. Great tip though, thanks
By Timmay on Sep 2, 2007
great tip thanks for that!
By plexo on Sep 2, 2007
Interesting article. I would have like to hear some voice though.
By TheMacThinker on Sep 2, 2007
Thank you
Thank you
This will save me hours of cropping and straighting old photos
Time is money
Thank you
Thank you
By monk100 on Sep 2, 2007
This article was really useful. I work for a publishing company that runs a music magazine, and as a side project a CD/book/DVD store which supports it. One of my jobs is manually scanning all the new stock into the computers. I have read many CS2 books back to front and never came across this extremely simple option. It has literally saved me hours, thanks heaps!
Keep up the good work.
By Lylepalooza on Sep 2, 2007
Thanks very useful.
By jim on Sep 2, 2007
Amazing, been using PS for years now and never knew about this trick. Judging by the other comments on here you’re a life saver not only to me. Thank you very much for a short and sweet tutorial with an awesome video/player. (that scores mega points in itself.)
By Panther on Sep 2, 2007
is this possible in “the GIMP”?
By rio_hot on Sep 3, 2007
Why CMYK, are you using them for print? You may know this, but a CMYK-setting reduces the photo color quality quite a bit. You should save them as RGB, and only convert them to CMYK if you’re going to send it to a printer.
By Turbo on Sep 12, 2007
Automated cropping is ok, but digital rotation of images is lossy.
Unless you have a scanner that will scan higher DPI than you need the final product to be, I’d straighten them manually (before scanning).
By CountSpatula on Sep 13, 2007
Can this be done in older PS versions or only CS2? Im running PS 7 and do not have this option
By John on Jun 6, 2008
@John This tool was introduced in CS2
By ethomas on Jun 7, 2008