"Crop and Straighten Photos" doesn't work for me

[thelazybear]

I want to use the "Crop and Straighten Photos" for my scanned files which includes 2 images each.

File>>Automate>>Crop and Straighten Photos

The problem is, for some images this feature doesn't work as it should. Please have a look at attached images down below. I think it's probably Photoshop cannot recognize edges of the images properly as they are not sharp and clear.

Any idea how to fix this problem? I appreciate any help and open to hear any suggestions. Thank you

[Myra Ferguson]

Instead of using the automated Crop & Straighten command, you might try using Straighten with the Crop tool. Here's how:

1. Select the Crop tool
2. In the Options bar (Window > Options), click on Straighten
3. The cursor will change to a level icon. Draw a line with it indicating how you'd like the image to be straightened
4. Adjust the size of the crop if needed

[thelazybear]

Dear Myra,

Thank you for your reply. I am gonna do this process around 4000 times. Can I automate these steps as you mentioned with automate, actions or any way you suggest?

Regards,

[tylerb82323259]

I'm on version 24.7.0 and it doesn't work for me either. It just opens a new file/tab with a copy of the original scanned page. Most tutorials on the internet for this feature indicate that it should open multiple new files, one for each picture.

[Conrad_C]

Both you and the original poster of this old thread should check your scans with the following in mind:

Crop and Straighten Photos is specifically designed to break apart a scan containing multiple small photo prints. It looks for the white background space between prints.

This can fail when the original scan looks a little different than what Crop and Straighten Photos is expecting. For example, look at the scan attached to the original post that started this thread. They said they expect to get two images. But Crop and Straighten Photos is probably confused because the top image of the peppers does not have a distinct single border against the background (so it might think the peppers at the bottom are a separate picture), and the bottom image is actually a grid of squares with white space between them (it might think those are all supposed to be separate pictures).

Sometimes Crop and Straighten Photos fails because the background around the photos is not solid white, like if there is a stain, handwriting, or other visible marks between the photo rectangles. This can happen when someone scans a page from a scrapbook or old photo album.

Below is a rough example of a scan that would work great with Crop and Straighten Photos: The prints are very distinct rectangles, and the background is a very clean and solid white. Crop and Straighten Photos can easily split this into five separate perfectly cropped documents. How similar is your scan compared to this example?

Also, Crop and Straighten Photos is a very old feature that probably uses relatively simple rules. If it was added as a new or updated feature today, it would probably take advantage of the advanced machine learning or AI that we have today. But it does not, and probably has not been updated in many years.

[tylerb82323259]

My scans are very similar to your example. I ended up finding the solution for my situation in another thread. I had to crop out a thin line all around the border of the scan because supposedly there's some kind of nearly invisible line that throws off the "Crop & Straighten" feature. Once I did that, the scans were correctly split up into multiple files.