Mass Scanning of Stamps by Using Photoshop

During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the things. The
results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm

The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop can use
its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop and
Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

--
Victor Manta

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"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the
things. The
results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm

The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop
can use
its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop
and
Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

--
Victor Manta

I presume you mean the full programme as this command is not in
Photoshop Elements 3.0?

Douglas

"Douglas Myall" wrote in message
...

"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the
things. The
results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm

The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop
can use
its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop
and
Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

--
Victor Manta

I presume you mean the full programme as this command is not in
Photoshop Elements 3.0?

Douglas

I have used the full program indeed.

--
Victor Manta

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On Sat, 6 May 2006 18:16:29 +0200, "Victor Manta"
wrote:

"Douglas Myall" wrote in message
...

"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the
things. The
results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm

The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop
can use
its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop
and
Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

--
Victor Manta

I presume you mean the full programme as this command is not in
Photoshop Elements 3.0?

Douglas

I have used the full program indeed.

Photoshop CS2 has the power to do all this. I just started working
with it during the semester the just finished. The Manual Rotate
works very nicely, a pixel at a time if necessary, so the automated
version Victor mentions should work as nice, except that it does more
than 1 at a time. Results are very good, as can be shown on Victor's
web page.

I'm amazed at what PS can do, but it does it for a price... Roughly
about $250 avg. here in the states. If you buy the entire CS2 Suite,
it runs you about $379, which is totally awesome. BTW, the Student
Edition is just as good as the retail edition. I jumped at the chance
for the entire suite and wasn't let down yet.

This is not to compete, compare or anything else with other products
that can do the same thing. Just only in the experience I have had,
is all...

=======================
Tracy Barber
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adirondack-pc
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"Freebie Stamp Project"
=======================

wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2006 18:16:29 +0200, "Victor Manta"
wrote:


"Douglas Myall" wrote in message
...

"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...

During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the

things. The

results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm

The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop

can use

its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop

and

Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

--
Victor Manta


I presume you mean the full programme as this command is not in
Photoshop Elements 3.0?

Douglas

I have used the full program indeed.


Photoshop CS2 has the power to do all this. I just started working
with it during the semester the just finished. The Manual Rotate
works very nicely, a pixel at a time if necessary, so the automated
version Victor mentions should work as nice, except that it does more
than 1 at a time. Results are very good, as can be shown on Victor's
web page.

I'm amazed at what PS can do, but it does it for a price... Roughly
about $250 avg. here in the states. If you buy the entire CS2 Suite,
it runs you about $379, which is totally awesome. BTW, the Student
Edition is just as good as the retail edition. I jumped at the chance
for the entire suite and wasn't let down yet.

This is not to compete, compare or anything else with other products
that can do the same thing. Just only in the experience I have had,
is all...

=======================
Tracy Barber
-----------------------
adirondack-pc
-----------------------
"Freebie Stamp Project"
=======================

You can also try it for free from the Adobe site

On Sat, 06 May 2006 20:52:10 GMT, Alan wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2006 18:16:29 +0200, "Victor Manta"
wrote:


"Douglas Myall" wrote in message
...

"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...

During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the

things. The

results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm

The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop

can use

its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop

and

Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

--
Victor Manta


I presume you mean the full programme as this command is not in
Photoshop Elements 3.0?

Douglas

I have used the full program indeed.


Photoshop CS2 has the power to do all this. I just started working
with it during the semester the just finished. The Manual Rotate
works very nicely, a pixel at a time if necessary, so the automated
version Victor mentions should work as nice, except that it does more
than 1 at a time. Results are very good, as can be shown on Victor's
web page.

I'm amazed at what PS can do, but it does it for a price... Roughly
about $250 avg. here in the states. If you buy the entire CS2 Suite,
it runs you about $379, which is totally awesome. BTW, the Student
Edition is just as good as the retail edition. I jumped at the chance
for the entire suite and wasn't let down yet.

This is not to compete, compare or anything else with other products
that can do the same thing. Just only in the experience I have had,
is all...

=======================
Tracy Barber
-----------------------
adirondack-pc
-----------------------
"Freebie Stamp Project"
=======================

You can also try it for free from the Adobe site

Yes, for a limited time deal... Eventually, you have to poop or get
off the pot. :^)

=======================
Tracy Barber
-----------------------
adirondack-pc
-----------------------
"Freebie Stamp Project"
=======================

Douglas Myall wrote:
"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...

During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the
things. The
results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm
The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop
can use
its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop
and
Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

--
Victor Manta

I presume you mean the full programme as this command is not in
Photoshop Elements 3.0?

Douglas

Photoshop Elements 2.0 has a command to do this, Image Rotate
Straighten and Crop Image. But sometimes it gives funny results, like this:

http://www.davenportsleds.ca/temp/battlecats.jpg

I don't see an easy way to separate a scan of multiple stamps into
individual images, though.

Ryan

Victor Manta wrote:
During a rainy Saturday, I have searched for my way to do the things. The
results are presented on my new page:

http://www.artonstamps.org/Magazine/...can-stamps.htm

The conclusion of my tests is that those who already have Photoshop can use
its feature "Crop and Straighten Photos" (File - Automate - Crop and
Straighten Photos) and will obtain quite good results.

I located a poor man's way of rotating stamp images with a Google
search. Only works on one stamp at a time, although you can batch
process multiple stamp images one after the other, and the result is
..PNG files rather than .JPG. However, the freeware program Irfanview can
save PNG's as JPG's if needed.

Go to http://hem.bredband.net/pnyxtr/rotation/rotate.html
for instructions and a download link.

Bill Sharpe