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    What does this button do? Ooops. JDub's Avatar
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    Actions and Batch Processing in Photoshop

    I'm starting to get more into the photography, which means that I'm having to deal with a larger volume of photos. With this hightened quantity, I need to develop some actions and batch processes in Photoshop to do the "standard" processing that I do to all the pictures I take from an event before I post them to my web page for viewing/ordering.

    I've created these actions in the past, but I've never used any sort of batch processing. What I want to do is pick a folder, and have a specific action run against the entire folder, that is possible within PS right?

    My action basically does a little sharpening, resizing, typically a warming filter, and saves the resized copy to another folder so I can easily upload them to a website.

    Anyone have any tips/websites that can help me accomplish these goals.

    Thanks in advance,
    Joel

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    [QUOTE=
    I've created these actions in the past, but I've never used any sort of batch processing. What I want to do is pick a folder, and have a specific action run against the entire folder, that is possible within PS right?

    My action basically does a little sharpening, resizing, typically a warming filter, and saves the resized copy to another folder so I can easily upload them to a website.

    Anyone have any tips/websites that can help me accomplish these goals.

    Thanks in advance,
    Joel[/QUOTE]

    Hi Joel,

    I think these are the best features of photoshop! It's failry straigh forward: file > automate > batch. The only tricky part is saving jpeg without gettting the "jpeg options menu." which expects manual input (and I haven't found a workaround within the batch window).

    I'm not sitting in front of my computer to recolect exactly how I get around this. However, what I think I do(!) is COPY all the files to a new folder, run the batch mode and just re-save them to the SAME location. This overwrites the file, and because of this, avoids the "jpeg options menu." Avoiding this menu was the only snag I ran into doing batch processing.

    Another great tool, IMO, is Breezebrowser (http://www.breezebrowser.com/). It's an excelent and simple tool to use when you don't need to do much editing. I think they have a free demo too. It allows resizing, sharpening, levels, color space change, noise reduction, saving to a new directory (by default, nonetheless) and maybe more, in one easy to use window called "proofs."

    Mike

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    I suggest not saving in Jpeg format, it is a very lossy format. Use .psd or .tiff, they take more space but you will not lose image quality.

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