Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial here at the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me on Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this video, I will show you how you can use Photoshop's crop and straightening command
to quickly and easily crop multiple scanned images into their own individual files.
I'll also take the time to show you how to fake some of the most common issues that arise
when scanning images into Photoshop.
Okay, let's get started.
We're going to work with this file which contains three scanned photographs, and to quickly
and easily crop them, straighten them, and place them in their own individual files,
we're going to use Photoshop Automation Tools.
I'm going to go into File, Automate, Crop, and Straighten Photos.
Photoshop will then crop and straighten the photos in that image.
We have the three tabs here; one, two and three.
As you can see, this was a quick and easy thing to do.
Now, when you're looking at the photo, you may want to choose a different view.
For example, you may want to arrange the tabs Four Up, so we can see them all at the same
time, or, maybe, you just want to have floating windows, and you can arrange them accordingly.
Now, that's all personal preference, of course.
I'm going to go back into Window, Arrange, Consolidate all two tabs.
I like working with tabs better, but you may have a different preference.
So now that we have the photos, we can adjust them accordingly.
For example, you might notice that this photo, here, has some of the white outlines there.
That's very easy to remove.
You can do several things.
You can click on the Crop Tool, hold Shift, click and drag one of the corner handles,
and, then, press Enter, and that's going to crop that area out.
Another thing that you can do is use the Spot Healing Brush Tool and use the right bracket
key on the keyboard to make the brush bigger, and, then, paint on those edges using Content
Aware, and Photoshop will fill in those areas.
If you're working with a photo, and, maybe, that photo has a missing piece; so let me
just fake that.
I'm going to make a selection and fill it with white.
Ctrl D, Command D to Deselect.
So, now, this photo has a piece missing.
You can actually use the Fill Content Aware Command to generate the pixels.
So I'm going to click and drag, and make a selection around that.
Then, I'm going to go into Edit, Fill, Content, choose Content Aware, press OK.
Photoshop is going to fill that in.
You may not get it right the first time.
If you don't, just make another selection with the pixels that don't look right to you,
and, then, do it again; Edit, Fill, Content Aware.
And if you think you need to do it one more time, then go ahead and do that the third
time.
This time I'm going to hold the Shift and Backspace to bring up the Fill Menu, and,
then, press OK, Ctrl D, Command D to Deselect, and that looks much better.
Another thing that you may come across is some of the old Polaroid photos and you can
decide to keep the white outline, or you can crop that in, and it's very easy to crop.
Just select the Crop Tool and match the edges yourself, and, then, press Enter.
I'm going to Zoom In just so we can see this image a little bit better.
I'm holding Alt and scrolling up on the mouse wheel, and since this video is all about using
the automation tools to crop and straighten, we'll also use the auto tools to adjust Color,
Contrast, and Tone.
You can, of course, adjust the colors by going into Image, and using one of the three auto
commands here.
So, in this particular image, one of the things you may want to do is adjust the colors, so
click on Auto Color.
You can also press Shift, Ctrl B, Shift Command B on the Mac; Auto Color.
And that adjusts the colors of the image.
If you're unhappy with the results, you can go into Edit, Fade, Auto Color, or press Shift,
Ctrl F, Shift Command F on the Mac, and in the Fade Command window, you can bring down
the Opacity of that effect, or you can also use a different Blend Mode.
In this case, I like the colors, but maybe the image is a little bit too dark.
So I'm going to use a different Blend Mode to keep the colors, but bring back the old
luminance values.
So I'm going to go into Mode and select Color.
So that keeps the new colors, but brings up the old luminance values, then I'm going to
press OK.
Now that I'm looking at the image, this maybe a little bit too bright, so I'm going to go
into Image, Auto Contrast.
Again, the image is darker than I would like it to be, so I'm just going to go into Edit,
Fade Auto Contrast, and bring the Opacity down a little bit, right about there, and,
then, press OK.
Now, you may come across an image that has a different problem.
This image is showing portrait style but it needs to be landscape.
To fix that, we can just go into Image, Image Rotation, 90 degrees Clockwise, and, then,
rotate the image.
You can see some of the white here, so we can fix that by just cropping it a little
bit, just a tiny bit, and, then, the white edges are gone.
You can, of course, apply any of the Auto Color commands if you want to, but I'm not
going to do that in this case.
We're going to come back into the image that we started with and we're going to talk about
one other issue that you may come up with when scanning images and that is noise.
Notice how this image has a lot of noise.
There's not too much that you can do in a lot of cases, but you can certainly improve
it.
So I'm going to Zoom In just so we can see what kind of noise we're dealing with, and
notice that this noise has some color in there.
And we're going to use some of the Photoshop filters to try to make it just a little bit
better.
But, before I do that, I'm just going to go into Auto Color and Auto Tone.
So this is what our image looks like now.
I'm going to Zoom In and, obviously, the noise is still there.
So, what I'm going to do first is go into Filter, Noise, Reduce Noise.
And this filter is going to help us reduce some of that noise.
So, the first thing I'm going to do is just bring down the sliders here to the left, so
you can see what the image looks like with nothing applied to it.
So, there it is.
And, obviously, I have the Preview checkbox enabled, and I'm just going to start out by
increasing the strength all the way up just to see what it looks like.
And in this particular case, dragging the strength up to 10 doesn't seem to damage the
image in terms of losing detail in detail areas, simply because we really can't see,
for example, her lips, her eyes, are really not there, even at zero you really can't see
them, so we're okay going all the way up to try to reduce some noise.
So I'm going to click on the checkbox and you see how that removes a little bit of noise.
Then, you can also reduce the Color Noise.
Notice how we have some Color Noise here.
Watch what happens when I drag this slider over to the right.
I'm just going to drag it all the way to the right again, just so you can see the difference.
Look at the brown hair.
If I disable the Preview checkbox, you can see that that noise has some color.
If I enable it, that color is gone.
So I do want to remove the Color Noise from this image.
Again, in this case, using the strength of 10 and 100% here works.
In your image, you may need to bring the strength down a little down a little bit, and, also,
bring the Color Noise back a bit.
It all depends on your image.
In this particular case, I don't have a lot of detail to preserve, so, actually, preserving
the detail brings back noise in areas that really don't require it, so I'm just going
to leave this at zero.
So this looks good for now.
I'm going to press OK.
At this point, this maybe all that I can do, but I could try one other thing and see how
it looks.
I want to go into Filter, Blur, Surface Blur, and this blur allows you to blur but it leaves
the edges intact.
So notice here on the chair how the edges are intact; the inside and the outside.
In this case, you really can't tell because its white highlight are what's being blurred,
not the edges.
So, again, you can just bring this down to zero.
So to see the before and the after, you can start increasing the threshold, maybe, 10
levels, and you can see before and after.
So we're definitely getting rid of a lot of the noise that's here on the chair.
It's not affecting her face too much, and, then, I can press OK.
This looks good.
I'm going to Zoom Out, and that's what our image looks like.
If I go into Window, History, I can come back right here, Auto Tone, so, before and after;
so, certainly, a lot less noise.
Obviously there's a whole lot of other problems and issues that may arise when scanning images
into Photoshop, but these are some of the most common problems that you'll have, and
just a few ways in how to fix them.
And that's it for this tutorial.
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