Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Crop and Straighten

Even with all of Photoshop's nifty selection, transformation and crop tools, the task of scanning in bunches of photographs has, up until now, required an annoying amount of rotation, cropping, copying, and pasting. Each photo in the scan had to be individually selected, then cropped or copied and pasted to a new document. Despite your best efforts, the photos are rarely perfectly aligned; at least a few usually cant off to one side or the other a few degrees, requiring further rotation and cropping (Figure 2.25).

Figure 2.25. Breaking a scan of multiple photos into individual images used to require a lot of cropping and straightening by hand. (©2005 Mark Clarkson)

But Photoshop's Crop and Straighten Photos does most of ...