Scan in mutiple photos in one file, can I crop multiple photos...

Joshua

I don't see a way to scan
the 5-6 pics as different files in my scanner software.

And neither do we, but if you told is what scanner you have, or what software we might have a chance 😉

And no, you can't crop multiple photos at the same time.

Regards

TD

You might consider PhotoShop Elements 4. It has a command "Divide Scanned Photos" that will crop, straighten, and create seperate files for each of the scanned items. It's really quite accurate. Plus, it's a fabulous image editor with powerful capabilities. You can read about it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelmac/
I've seen users report here lately they've found it for as little as $60 on Amazon.

To achieve what you want using PE4, you'd upload your scans to the desktop, divide into separate files with PE4, then import those individual files into iPhoto.

In addition, you could set PE4 as your editor of choice in iPhoto; find a photo in iPhoto, double-click and it opens for editing in PE4, Save and the edits go back into iPhoto. It's a nice workflow that works for me.

Joshua:

Vuescan is a 3rd party scanning application which can do batch scanning but is a little more difficult to set up. It works with most scanners.

If you have a Canon scanner you can scan in multiple photos at one time and have the scanner software crop, not as close as I'd like, each one individually and present to you in the editor of your choice or the one that comes with it.

Do you Twango?

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