New in Photoshop Elements 3.0, the Divide Scanned Photos command out-straightens and out-crops the standard Straighten and Crop Image command. It also performs a nifty trick all its own.

Scan an image (don't even worry about placing it correctly on the scanning bed) and choose Image, Divide Scanned Photos. The command automatically analyzes the scan, corrects the rotation, and crops out the scanned underside of your scanner lid so that you're left with nothing but the image. It's great to finally have a command in Elements that can perform this task reliably.

But wait — it gets better. You can place several images on your scanning bed at once (known in scanning circles as a "gang scan") and Divide Scanned Photos can work its magic on each and every member of the gang. A formerly difficult, time-consuming, and tedious task has been automated in Photoshop Elements 3.0.