Rotating and Resizing Photos - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 121

NOTE
If you have a Mac, the free, built-in program Image Capture often automatically creates
separate files for each image in a group scan, as long as it can tell them apart.
Start by scanning in the photos using the scanner's own software (you may need to dig out
the scanner's manual to figure out how). When you're done, follow these steps:
1. Open the scanned image file in the Editor .
It doesn't matter what file format you saved the scanned group of photos as: TIFF,
JPEG, whatever. Elements can read 'em all (with the few exceptions mentioned on
Changing a File's Format ) .
2. Choose Image → Divide Scanned Photos, and then watch as Elements divides,
straightens, and crops the individual photos .
Sit back and enjoy the view as Elements carefully calculates, splits, straightens out,
and trims each image. You'll see the photos appear and disappear as Elements works
through them.
3. Use the File → Save As command to name and save each separated image .
When Elements is done, you'll have one file for the original group scan and a separ-
ate file for each photo Elements carved out. All you need to do now is import the cut-
apart photos into the Organizer (if you use the Organizer, that is). To do that, just
make sure that “Include in the Elements Organizer” is turned on in the Save As dialog
box (see Saving Your Work ) . If you don't use the Organizer, just save the images as
you would any other image file.
Elements usually does a crackerjack job splitting photos, but once in a while it chokes, leav-
ing you with a file that contains more than one photo. Figure 3-2 shows you what to do when
Elements doesn't succeed in dividing things up.