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petey111

petey111

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So....I am working on a graduation video for a friend. I have about 50 scans of photos that I did. Thinking I'd use PSE's or CS3's cropping multiple photos option. PSE has "Divide Scanned Photos" and CS3 has "Crop and Straighten Photos".

Both ended up with one picture fine, a square shot that hand the inside corners of all four photos, and one that looks like this:

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It seems like that is how most of them are ending up. I can go through and crop them all myself using either of those programs or iMovie, but does anyone have a quicker way?? :-) Any help would be appreciated.
 
Haven't done it but I think photoshop automates that sort of thing. I have photoshop 7 and can click on automate in the File menu which takes me to any folder I choose and then it will create a web gallery for me. You probably know that though.

Does this link help?

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Video-Using-Photoshop

Forgot to say to put your photos together into a folder. You probably know this but just in case.
 
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I guess I didn't describe what I am doing very well.

I have a picture that is four or so pictures that were scanned all at once.

When I use the Photoshop automation tools to "Divide Scanned Photos", it's not dividing them right.

I can hand crop them in Photoshop or iPhoto. But I was wondering if there was an easier way....or how to the the automation tool to work better in Photoshop. I don't think PowerPoint would do anything like that and the saving process would be a pain I imagine.

I know how to make the video just fine. I'm good at that part. I just wanted to save time by scanning several pictures at once (instead of one at a time) and then use an automated tool to crop them into individual pictures. I guess I should have just scanned one picture at a time instead, but oh well.
 
when i did this in the past, I had to make sure there was plenty of space around each picture so that there was a very clear space around each picture. is it possible to rescan just those ones that came out wrong?
 
Oh Now I understand :doh: I agree with Vicki, if you leave enough space between the photos it should work better!
 
I'll have to try that next time. I will run the divide scanned photos on a "duplicate set" of all of them. Then the ones that don't come out right, I can just recrop from the originals. It might save me a little time. Some of them have more space than others between the pics, so maybe some will work out better and I wasn't patient enough to go past the first batches where I put smaller pics together with more on the scanner.

You live and learn right?! Thanks for the advice ladies!
 
Sara, I did that once too and PS started "slicing and dicing" and it wouldn't stop! One scan of 3 photos ended up being cropped into god only knows how many. I had to use the Task Mgr to shut down PS or I would probably *still* be waiting for it to finish.
:rofl:

Have fun, heh
 
Thanks Chris!!! I'll let you know how it goes....if you don't hear from me, send word that my computer crashed and someone needs to revive me too!!
 
I was going to say what Vicki said, I have done this in the past and you do have to make sure that there is some space around each photo so the program 'knows' where to divide them up. good luck Sara! sounds like a LOT of scanning!!
 
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