Automatic crop and straighten multiple scanned photos from old photo albums

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April 13, 2020
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I have scanned a large number of old photos directly from their photo albums without taking them out to avoid damaging the photos.

I downloaded photoshop on my mac and was hoping I could use the automate crop and straighten photos function to separate the scanned photos but since the background area between the photos have a beige strippy pattern (from the sticky glue of old style albums), this function is not able to identify the edges of the photos to crop accurately.

Is there a way I can "white out" the photo album background without editing the colour/contrast of the photos so that I can then proceed with automate crop and straighten photos step? Everything I read on youtube/websites only teaches you about whiting out a background from a center object and not from a defined area of the image.

Many thanks for your knowledge in advance!

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

That background is so far from what the Crop and Straighten feature in supposed to handle that so far I see no effective approach to fully automate the task in a meaningful manner.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

In order to easily automate process of selecting and changing/editing using Photoshop, most likely you will need some pattern to be present in your files. It may not be ultimate requirement but it is worth to know and to look for any pattern in all files which needs processing to make things easier. You can start looking in top right corner of your files, for example, or bottom right/left corner and to report some pattern or consistency to better assist you.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, it is difficult to help you without seeing the image. There are several selection tools that could help you select the pages and delete them...

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Please post an example.

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Eva Chen-KubotaAuthor

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Hi all,

Here is an example. Because of the strippy background of the photo album, the automate crop and straighten function does not work properly as it is unable to identify to the edges of the photos.
Is there a way to remove the strippy background by turning it into a white background and then automate crop and straighten?

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