So isn’t there an easier way? Of course there is! You’re not the first person who wants to do this. You could manually rotate, crop and save each photo, but this takes a loooot of time. And even if the page is straight, individual photos may be skew relative to the page since they were glued that way. Unless you have the hand-eye coordination of a surgeon, most images will also be slightly skew. Of these the latter is the fastest and easiest, since macro-photographs of single photographs is tricky in terms of lighting, focus, and framing.īut here you run into another problem: you end up with tens to hundreds of scanned pages, each containing multiple distinct photographs. So your only option is photographing them individually, or whole-page scanning/photographing. Removing the photos from the album pages before scanning them is time-consuming, and may even harm them. So the only option is scanning the prints themselves. In my case (and probably in yours), the negatives of many of these photographs are unavailable. to share with family members, to protect them from degradation and loss, or just for your digital library. And you also probably want to have them in digital format – e.g. Albums with family photographs, glued to paperboard pages. Just like you, I also have old photo albums at home. If you use Apple or Linux this step will be silently skipped, and the rest of the script will work.
#Cs3 photoshop batch process windows
My experience is that for this GIMP works better than Photoshop, and as an added bonus: it’s free!Ĭaveat: The “deskew” operation in the GIMP script only works on Windows computers due to its dependence on “deskew.exe”. In this post I’ll show you two ways in which you can automatically split a (collection of) scanned pages, each containing several photos, into individual image files.