However, when working with images, I can periodically check how they will look on the projector by pumping up the brightness and removing the yellow tint. I often like to work with a lower light and warmer colors on my screen to protect my eyes (and some programs like flux do this automatically at night). If you’re planning to show this image on screen, make sure that the settings on your editing screen are similar to the settings on the presenting screen. General tip: Always keep in mind your image’s final destination Anastasia Sares put together a list of super-helpful tips and hacks she’s discovered while editing her science images in Inkscape – enjoy! It’s a flexible and advanced tool, but sometimes all of that flexibility can be intimidating. If you're not au fait with scripts, Snip app for Mac does the same thing (There's another similarly named app, SnipTag, for automatically batch-cropping scans and editing image metadata, but that's outwith what OP asked.Want to make some polished figures and posters but don’t want to pay for expensive software? Inkscape is a free, open-source image-editing program like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. In Photoshop, you could do this by doing File > Automate > Crop & straighten on the whole batch, with a script like this.
OP wants to crop scans of book covers, which are akin to images - so an image scanner is needed.Īlso, if you have multiple scans, each containing one or more images, it'd be nicer to crop them all with one click. The former detect images' edges and discard the scan's background the latter detect page edges and crop along those.
Programs for image cropping and document cropping are different.
This way you could even crop two or more books at a time, speeding up things. One option: Photograph the books with a DSLR or other digital camera, and use a program to auto-crop them. Scanning books or their dust jackets? I imagine the scanner lid won't close properly with a book under it, in most types of scanners.