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From: jsvideoservices on 13 Nov 2007 15:21
I recently downloaded a trial of Photoshop CS3, and particularly liked
the ability to auto-crop and straighten through a batch job, in order
to automate this function on hundreds of scanned photos.

Does anyone know if there is a less expensive (freeware / shareware)
alternative? I am hoping not to have to buy Photoshop CS3 just for
this one function.

Specifically, I am looking for a utility that will ***automatically***
detect where in the JPG a scanned photo is, automatically trim away
any white space on all four sides of the image, and save the auto-
cropped JPG to a new file. I have been looking for a while for
utilities that will do this, and so far have come up empty.

Thanks!

From: ronviers on 13 Nov 2007 15:59
On Nov 13, 2:21 pm, jsvideoservi...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> I recently downloaded a trial of Photoshop CS3, and particularly liked
> the ability to auto-crop and straighten through a batch job, in order
> to automate this function on hundreds of scanned photos.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a less expensive (freeware / shareware)
> alternative? I am hoping not to have to buy Photoshop CS3 just for
> this one function.
>
> Specifically, I am looking for a utility that will ***automatically***
> detect where in the JPG a scanned photo is, automatically trim away
> any white space on all four sides of the image, and save the auto-
> cropped JPG to a new file. I have been looking for a while for
> utilities that will do this, and so far have come up empty.
>
> Thanks!

Don't be crazy, you're processing hundreds of scanned photos, you just
can't go wrong owning PS.

From: ronviers on 13 Nov 2007 17:15
On Nov 13, 3:20 pm, Joe <j...(a)dontspam.com> wrote:
> jsvideoservi...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > I recently downloaded a trial of Photoshop CS3, and particularly liked
> > the ability to auto-crop and straighten through a batch job, in order
> > to automate this function on hundreds of scanned photos.
>
> > Does anyone know if there is a less expensive (freeware / shareware)
> > alternative? I am hoping not to have to buy Photoshop CS3 just for
> > this one function.
>
> > Specifically, I am looking for a utility that will ***automatically***
> > detect where in the JPG a scanned photo is, automatically trim away
> > any white space on all four sides of the image, and save the auto-
> > cropped JPG to a new file. I have been looking for a while for
> > utilities that will do this, and so far have come up empty.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> Stop looking because there is none program that smart to know what and
> where you want to crop. For example, even human wouldn't know what other
> wants, or if I give you 100 photos then you may not know what I want you to
> crop.

Hi Joe,
Trimming is important and is something that could be automated - CS2
is lacking in that area. I take it from the OP's post that CS3 has
better trimming capabilities.

From: TheComputerGuy on 13 Nov 2007 20:13
On Nov 13, 12:59 pm, "ronvi...(a)gmail.com" <ronvi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2:21 pm, jsvideoservi...(a)gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I recently downloaded a trial of Photoshop CS3, and particularly liked
> > the ability to auto-crop and straighten through a batch job, in order
> > to automate this function on hundreds of scanned photos.
>
> > Does anyone know if there is a less expensive (freeware / shareware)
> > alternative? I am hoping not to have to buy Photoshop CS3 just for
> > this one function.
>
> > Specifically, I am looking for a utility that will ***automatically***
> > detect where in the JPG a scanned photo is, automatically trim away
> > any white space on all four sides of the image, and save the auto-
> > cropped JPG to a new file. I have been looking for a while for
> > utilities that will do this, and so far have come up empty.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> Don't be crazy, you're processing hundreds of scanned photos, you just
> can't go wrong owning PS.

Photoshop Rocks especially CS3 extended. In the long run you will be
thankful.

From: Owen Ransen on 13 Nov 2007 23:48
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:20:39 -0600, Joe <joe(a)dontspam.com> wrote:

>jsvideoservices(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Stop looking because there is none program that smart to know what and
>where you want to crop. For example, even human wouldn't know what other
>wants, or if I give you 100 photos then you may not know what I want you to
>crop.

The original poster has been very specific about the job, and if the
scanned photos are on a background of a specific color I think
the job is very very doable.

Computers are good at this. That's what they were built for.
Photoshop may not be able to do it automatically, but then
Photoshop is not the only program in the world.


Easy to use graphics effects:
http://www.ransen.com/
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