HELP with selecting certain areas - Macromedia Fireworks

[ezydesignz]

Howdy all, Im just wondering if anyone can help with my little problem.

Im scanning cards and can fit 6 of them at a time in the scanner, this then
gives me a image with 6 cards on it.... each card has a image on it which is
in a box , so what i would like to do, is only get the boxs and whats inside
them, then having a single image file for each card, there is white space
around the outside of the boxes to the edge of the cards, so im wondering if
there is a easy way that i can get fireworks to notice the edges and then
save each of the 6 boxes to their own file,

any ideas ? :)

cheers

[PJR]

ezydesignz wrote:
|| Howdy all, Im just wondering if anyone can help with my little
|| problem.
||
|| Im scanning cards and can fit 6 of them at a time in the scanner,
|| this then gives me a image with 6 cards on it.... each card has a
|| image on it which is in a box , so what i would like to do, is only
|| get the boxs and whats inside them, then having a single image file
|| for each card, there is white space around the outside of the boxes
|| to the edge of the cards, so im wondering if there is a easy way
|| that i can get fireworks to notice the edges and then save each of
|| the 6 boxes to their own file,

Hmm, It strikes me that there are several ways to do this if I understand
you correctly.
I think I would do the following...
With your scanned 6 image page open on screen. I would then create another
blank canvas the exact size that you want your seperate images to be.
With both your 6 image canvas and the new blank one I would then simply drag
the larger image over on to the new blank canvas, move it around untill you
are happy with the posisioning then Alt+Ctrl+T to trim the exess. Then save
it as what ever you like. Now go back to your unsaved canvas and delete the
previous image you have just saved and move onto the next one.

Does that make any sense?

Peter

[ezydesignz]

hmmmmmmm ... kinda.... but i was hoping it could be abit more
automated......
a good back up plan though :)
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[Kim]

ezy--

Choose the Rectangle marquee tool. In the Property inspector set the
size to fixed and then set the capture area to the dimensions you need.
Click o the upper left hand corner of the card and press Ctrl/CMD C.
Press Ctrl/CMD N to make a new file. Press Ctrl/CMD V to paste in your
capture. Save your file and repeat.

Kim

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[Kim]

Forgot to say to press Enter after you create the new doc. Fireworks
will automatically size the canvas to match the area you copied.

Kim

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[Lanny]

In article <bvsnnd$d15$macromedia.com>,
"ezydesignz" <com> wrote:
 

Scan 6 cards. Draw slices over the parts you want to save. Export only
the slices--no HTML, no unsliced areas. If your card placement on the
scanner platen is consistent, the same slices will work over and over;
just delete the scan and save the file with its slices for the next
batch. Be careful with filenames, so new exported images don't overwrite
old ones.

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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
http://www.hummingbirds.net/