Hi,

I am starting to digitizing all my family pictures. I use a scanner to scan all the pics into my computer, and use Photoshop 7.0 (yeah, it IS kind of old.) to do some retouching on them.

Since the scanner is big enough, and there are many many pictures, I usually put 3 or 4 pictures on the scanner for one scan to save some time.

After that, I would have to make additional 2 or 3 copies of that scanned image (using copy/paste, not multiple scanning), and crop the desired portion out of each image.

This is tedious. I would like to know if there is anyway to define different, usually not connected areas of a picture, and apply only a single command, so the seleced areas would become distinct image files of their own?

Thanks

Cut each of the images onto a new, just select and go to layers and new layer.

Then choose Image>Duplicate and discard the layers and save as.

If the images are the same size you could probably batch command the process up to the point of save as, so you can enter a name for the file.

You can also use the selection tool to select the desired portion of the images and then drag and drop it into a new document.

Maria Santella
Technical Sales Engineer
ICP DAS USA, Inc.
http://www.icpdas-usa.com

Photoshop has an option File -> Automate -> Crop & Straighten Photos which will isolate the photos in your scan, and put each photo in a separate file. It has had the ability for a while, but I don't recall if version 7 had it.

Unfortunately File -> Automate -> Crop & Straighten is not in 7 but you can crop a selection and straighten with the Ruler