Hello All
I would appreciate some help........Using Photoshop, does anyone know how to take a large number of shots (60) and perform a single operation to adjust brightness, contrast, size etc on all of them to save doing this to each photo individually?
There must be an easy way but I'm baffled! :o
Regards, Ken
Photo advice needed!
Ken, it's easy to create an "Action" in PS to save time but unless all the pics you're going to edit automatically are basically almost the same (saturation, colour, etc.) you'll get results of a very varying quality when you try to use
that feature to sharpen pics or to adjust their colour automatically.
Actions are IMO the easiest way to mass editing but batch processing is more comfortable than using the same action over and over on many pictures.
I just found this tutorial. Check it out! It's basically what I would have tried to explain to you too. When pressing the "record" button, you can pretty much do anything and after pressing "stop" you'll be able to repeat everything in the same exact sequence.
I'd suggest to experiment a little with this feature. It's not difficult and can be helpful in a number of situations. If you need any further assistance, just drop me some lines. As always I'd be happy to help.
Cheers, Rob
that feature to sharpen pics or to adjust their colour automatically.
Actions are IMO the easiest way to mass editing but batch processing is more comfortable than using the same action over and over on many pictures.
I just found this tutorial. Check it out! It's basically what I would have tried to explain to you too. When pressing the "record" button, you can pretty much do anything and after pressing "stop" you'll be able to repeat everything in the same exact sequence.
I'd suggest to experiment a little with this feature. It's not difficult and can be helpful in a number of situations. If you need any further assistance, just drop me some lines. As always I'd be happy to help.
Cheers, Rob
Rob, when you use actions, it will stop and let you change the levels if you want it to. I use level, saturation, curves, unsharp mask, image size and (naturally) save regularly. What it will do is automatically open each one in order, and make the adjustments you preset, but you get the option to make changes or just OK it and move to the next action. It saves the time it takes to open each one, plus, if you save to the same folder each time, it finds that for you, too.
BBRex, you're right. It will stop if you want it to but I think you will not save much time when you have to set the values for "mask unsharp" by hand every time plus editing the colours by hand every time if you are processing 60 single pictures. If you "record" an action with average values for all the pics you want to edit and then batch-process them all at once the output might not be as excellent (actually most definitely) as it would be if you had set the values for each photo seperately but it's **** quick :D If all pics were taken with the same lighting, the same shutter time and so on it's IMO better to batch-process them than editing them one by one.
Anyway, PS is maybe the only program where almost always a minimum of 5 different solutions to one problem exist :rolleyes:
Cheers, Rob
Anyway, PS is maybe the only program where almost always a minimum of 5 different solutions to one problem exist :rolleyes:
Cheers, Rob