File>Automate>Crop and Straighten Photos in Photoshop

[MarcySB]

I stumbled on this when I was googling the other day how to split photos from a flatbed scan. My Photoshop has this option under file>automate>crop and straighten photos, and it is amazing! However, I can't find anything about it in any Photoshop support area on Adobe.

I'm trying to figure this out for someone and have spent a lot of time trying to find it online. So my question is - is this something that is included with Photoshop, or was it added by a plugin? I have Topaz and Luminar - could this come from those instead?

Thanks,

Marcy

Message was edited by: Sahil Chawla

[Sahil.Chawla · Accepted solution]

Hi Marcy,

As you're looking for more info on Automate crop and straighten, could you please have a look at this video and let us know if it helps?

How To Automatically Crop and Straighten Multiple Scanned Photos in Photoshop - YouTube

Regards,
Sahil

[MarcySB]

Sahil,

That is exactly what I'm talking about. Glad it is a Photoshop option!

Is there any chance this is available in the newest version of Adobe Elements? I'm teaching an older version of that to someone (I don't know it very well being a 20+ year Photoshop user) and if Elements does that as well, I'm going to recommend she upgrade. I know she won't do any sort of subscription.

Thank you,

Marcy

[Jeff Arola]

Yes in photoshop elements in the Expert mode under Image>Divide Scanned Photos

[Jeff Arola]

Yes File>Automate>Crop and Straighten is from adobe.

Here under Crop and straighten scanned photos

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/adjusting-crop-rotation-canvas.html

[MarcySB]

Jeff,

Thanks for the info. I pretty much knew everything in that video, but a refresher never hurts. Glad to know this feature is Photoshop native.

Marcy

[David5F87]

Automate crop and straighten - is this available in Photoshop Elements 2021?

If not which product do I need to purchase?

Thanks

David

[SdeGat]

"Crop and Straighten Photos" is greyed out on my Photoshop 24.1

I only have four pictures for a total of approx 1100 X 1300 pixels.

It was scanned directly into Photoshop and it shows as "indexed colors".

What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't this be easy?

[Jeff Arola]

Change the the Color Mode to RGB Color under Image>Mode.

If these are scans of photos, then you don't want to be scanning to Index Color Mode, since that only gives you 256 colors total in the scans. Normally, at the very least, one should scan photos to RGB Color (8 Bits/Channel or sometimes referred to by scanners as 24 bit color)

[SdeGat]

Thanks for the quick response @Jeff Arola. 

Being old pictures, I had set the scanner to grayscale but I did try to re-scan with the default "color" mode and the tool worked fine. I think there should be some kind of warning or error message from Photoshop when trying to use the "Crop and Straighten" tool rather than leaving us in the dark...