Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed-fusi2.netcologne.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tom Stiller Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:46:57 -0500 Organization: Old Men With Beards Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net QXfXGYKHLbJ8o3/66S5Gwwb15o5osfxnwLBbi76FdPfWFYxuHN X-Orig-Path: tom_stiller Cancel-Lock: sha1:8WbmrIh88pY9QadXd/2uMSon7hI= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.mac.apps:466 In article , arnstein@panix.com (David Arnstein) wrote: > I am looking for software that offers a particular feature "rotate to > line." I would like to draw display an image, and draw a line onto > that image using my mouse. The software would then rotate the image by > an amount that makes the line perfectly horizontal. > > This feature is useful for fixing up scanned images. > > I have Pixelmator, but I don't think it offers this feature. I could > not find this in iPhoto either. > > Thanks for any suggestions! The bundled Image Capture will do this. In fact, if you have a flatbed scanner, you can direct it to separate and align multiple images at once. I've used it to scan a stack of old photos.