BATCH CROPPING

[agmilton]

I am looking for a way to actually crop (not resize, but visually crop edges) a batch of scanned photos that have white edges showing (or a way to make the "portrait" ones) camouflaged in a slideshow.

I tried a Kodac Picture ???? Program that had such a thing. When I did singles, it was fine, but when I did it as a batch (115 photos), it would not save as PSD, but had to choose a jpg or something else that was "flattened"--what ever that means.

Does anyone know an easy way to do this? OR Does anyone have a background that will camouflage the strips of white around some of them?

Thanks
Gary

[Chuck Engels]

From a link at
http://www.chuckengels.com/videolinks.html

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

[Chuck Engels]

I would also think you could create an action in Photoshop to do that.

[Steve Grisetti]

If you had the full version of Photoshop and all of your photos are the same size and dimensions, it would be a pretty simple matter to record an Action and repeat it for your entire batch.

But, in any event, having photos all the same size is going to be key to a batch solution.

For instance, if all of your photos had the same 4:3 aspect ratio as a video frame, you could size all of the photos to 660x500 pixels and (if you have Scale to Frame Size unchecked) when you bring the photos into your Premiere Elements project at 100% scale, that white edge will be outside the video frame.

If you're going to do panning and scanning around the image and you want to have all your photos be 1000x750 pixels in size, then it takes a bit more effort, but you can still create pans and zooms that don't widen out far enough to show the white margin.

Beyond that, you might want to look into Photo Elements File/Process Multiple Files options. I don't think there's one that will do exactly what you want, but you never know.

BTW, how did all those photos with white margins get into your computer in the first place? Dont you crop your photos when you scan them anyway?

[agmilton]

These photos were scanned by "elves" in the family. There are many with different sizes--and with different cropping needs. Looking at them did not reveal the various edges until I got them into PhotoShop (with black background). All have already been resized for PS & PE.

Gary