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It appears from the doc that the intent of "crop and straighten" is for people who scan multiple images on a flatbed scanner into a single (large) file, which then need to be "separated" and then straightened out so they can be saved into their own separate files. While that’s well and good, PSCS isn’t making it really easy to deal with another (dare I say "more") problematic situation:
Slide (and negative) scanners rarely align media exactly in the holder, resulting in the need to scan "around" the edges by a certain degree and to then crop/rotate the image to maximize the image area. Crop and Straighten "can" do this, but there are several problems:
0) Most importantly, it doesn’t always see the edges of the scan area because it’s not a "full black" (or white, or any other color). There’s noise. Granted, with PS’s ability to see stuff that can’t normally see, I would hope and expect that CS be tweaked to accommodate this problem. As it is now, PS isn’t really successful enough at this task (from the slide scans) to go to the time/effort to do this automated cropping, especially considering the points that follow:
1) Since C&S is expecting to find more than one image, it makes a new canvas for each one, and gives it a temporary name (ie. "… copy"). If you only have ONE image, you don’t need a whole copy…especially if it’s BIG. Just work on the one image and keep it as an action in the history list.
2) If you try to save it, it doesn’t go in the original directory where the image came from; you are sent to the default "My Pictures" directory, requiring a potentially long and cumbersome search to get back to where the item is supposed to be. (which reminds me!! why can’t I change what directory PS goes to as a default if it doesn’t know where else to go!?)
3) C&S doesn’t work on multiple images, despite the fact that it’s in "automate". It only works on the currently active image. It should either operate on all the currently open images, or all those selected in the file browser. Of course, this is begging people to say "make an action out of it and run it from Batch…" Of course, but then why is it in "Automate"? Seems to me, that anything in the Automate submenu should operate on files consistently: either all the files that are open, or from the file browser, or selected in some other manner that involves its own user interface. A more appropriate place for its _current_ functionality is in Edit->Transform. But, I’m not advocating that; Here’s my suggestion:
C&S should have a dialog with it (like all the other Automate functions) that prompt you for a Color to use, a place to put the results (save them "as files"), or to do it "inline", and whether the work on the existing open files, those selected in the browser, or from a specific directory. Sure, this starts looking more like "batch", but there are enough differences that it could conveivably be its own dialog. As usual, one never knows the answer to this till a prototype is made and experimented with.
Slide (and negative) scanners rarely align media exactly in the holder, resulting in the need to scan "around" the edges by a certain degree and to then crop/rotate the image to maximize the image area. Crop and Straighten "can" do this, but there are several problems:
0) Most importantly, it doesn’t always see the edges of the scan area because it’s not a "full black" (or white, or any other color). There’s noise. Granted, with PS’s ability to see stuff that can’t normally see, I would hope and expect that CS be tweaked to accommodate this problem. As it is now, PS isn’t really successful enough at this task (from the slide scans) to go to the time/effort to do this automated cropping, especially considering the points that follow:
1) Since C&S is expecting to find more than one image, it makes a new canvas for each one, and gives it a temporary name (ie. "… copy"). If you only have ONE image, you don’t need a whole copy…especially if it’s BIG. Just work on the one image and keep it as an action in the history list.
2) If you try to save it, it doesn’t go in the original directory where the image came from; you are sent to the default "My Pictures" directory, requiring a potentially long and cumbersome search to get back to where the item is supposed to be. (which reminds me!! why can’t I change what directory PS goes to as a default if it doesn’t know where else to go!?)
3) C&S doesn’t work on multiple images, despite the fact that it’s in "automate". It only works on the currently active image. It should either operate on all the currently open images, or all those selected in the file browser. Of course, this is begging people to say "make an action out of it and run it from Batch…" Of course, but then why is it in "Automate"? Seems to me, that anything in the Automate submenu should operate on files consistently: either all the files that are open, or from the file browser, or selected in some other manner that involves its own user interface. A more appropriate place for its _current_ functionality is in Edit->Transform. But, I’m not advocating that; Here’s my suggestion:
C&S should have a dialog with it (like all the other Automate functions) that prompt you for a Color to use, a place to put the results (save them "as files"), or to do it "inline", and whether the work on the existing open files, those selected in the browser, or from a specific directory. Sure, this starts looking more like "batch", but there are enough differences that it could conveivably be its own dialog. As usual, one never knows the answer to this till a prototype is made and experimented with.
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