Correcting Picture Styles with Elements 6

[WesternGuy]

My DSLR allows me to set different Picture Styles, e.g., Standard, Portrait, Landscape, etc. These provide preset values for Sharpness, Contrast, Colour saturation and Colour tone. Since I shoot mostly landscapes and wildlife/nature images, I have my Picture Style set to Landscape.

I had completely forgotten about this and shot my son's recent wedding in this Style, when it should have been Portrait or Standard. :blush2: Landscape Style sets a high degree of sharpness and the colour saturation is adjusted so that blues and greens are accentuated. Needless to say this affects the images shot at his wedding. What I want to know is if there is a relatively simple approach, using Photoshop Elements 6, to correcting all 70+ images in one shot, or will I have to go through and revise the colours image by image. I would be aiming for a Portrait Style that, in the camera, is programmed to produce healthy attractive skin tones. Magenta, red and yellow tones are enhanced and the sharpness is reduced slightly to de-emphasize blemishes and rough skin.

Any ideas, suggestions or insight that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Cheers,

WesternGuy

P.S. I have posted this in an Elements forum, but thought I would post it here because of the wide audience this forum seems to have.

[freygr]

You will need a program which supports batch processing. I believe some versions of PhotoShop does, and Thumbs plus Pro with batch processing but those are the only two that I'm aware of. That is one reason that I shoot in RAW + JGP as if needed I have the unmodified RAW file to fix stuff like that. But even using a batch fix you will need to check each image afterward.

[Frog]

In photoshop 6, click file and pick 'process multiple images' in the drop down.
I've used it a few times for jpegs but I usually shoot in raw.
I don't know that if you can get what you want from it as its pretty much auto fix everything. Can't hurt to give it a try.

[WesternGuy]

Thanks freygr and Frog. I do know about the batch processing in Photoshop Elements. What I need to understand is how you change the colours so they will look like the camera had been set to a PIcture Style of Portrait or Standard.

Cheers,

WesternGuy

[readingr]

Okay are these JPEG files or RAW - if their JPEG then select all the files in organiser that you want the same edit to happen to. then g to FIX and select "guided edit..." . This will give you load of options on brightness comtrast, colour cast, sharpen.....

Then apply what you want to the photo on screen and walla it applies the same to all.

Hope that helps

Roger

[WesternGuy]

Roger, thanks for the insight. I will try this out shortly.

Cheers,

WesternGuy

[WesternGuy]

So here is the quandery now. I have another image editor - the one that came with the camera (Canon) - when I pull the images up with this editor, the colours are the way they should be. So now what to do. I am using the Spider 3 Elite Utility to colour calibrate my monitor, so I do not know if that is a factor. I think I will try printing some copies and see what happens out of both image editors. Any additional insight, thoughts etc, that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Roger, I tried your suggestion in PS Elements and still cannot figure out how to make things work properly. That is why I went to the other editor. (Need to practice with PSE some more)

Regards,

WesternGuy

[readingr]

So here is the quandery now. I have another image editor - the one that came with the camera (Canon) - when I pull the images up with this editor, the colours are the way they should be. So now what to do. I am using the Spider 3 Elite Utility to colour calibrate my monitor, so I do not know if that is a factor. I think I will try printing some copies and see what happens out of both image editors. Any additional insight, thoughts etc, that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Roger, I tried your suggestion in PS Elements and still cannot figure out how to make things work properly. That is why I went to the other editor. (Need to practice with PSE some more)

Regards,

WesternGuy

Can you post or e-mail me one of the photo's so that I can see what the issue is so that I can then write a step by step guide on correcting it.

Roger

[WesternGuy]

Roger, all is well. I printed some of the photos out and when they print, the colours are exactly what you would have seen if you had been at the wedding. :thumbsup: So I now know that the problem is with the display and not the images themselves.

I have a basic LCD display (came with the Dell) and I am using Spyder 3 Elite (Ver. 3.0.4 software) to calibrate the monitor. The image processing software is Photoshop Elements 6, so there must be something going on between the calibration software and the PS Elements software. MORE RESEARCH!!! :idea: Might have something to do with the calibration software as my wife has PSE 3 on her machine and colours look okay. Time to recalibrate the monitor and see if this will help.

Again, thanks very much for your assistance and suggestions.

WesternGuy