Batch noise reduction in Lr3

[alexw9]

What is the best way to do this?

I've already imported and edited about 250 pictures individually and I need to put noise reduction through them all (without having to do it one by one). The ISO ranges are between 800-1600 but I'll just have to pick a certain noise reduction setting and put it through all of them as I haven't got the time (or patience) to do them individually.

Thanks

 

[Byker28i]

Modify one picture the way you want it, then in the develop module click the + in the preset box on the left and select the bits you want to modify (in this case just the noise reduction). Save this with a useful name, i.e. 50 Luminance noise, then select a range of photos and apply the preset.

 

[alexw9]

Cheers. Was easier than I thought it'd be, I need to use the preset options more often.

 

[Musicman]

Or just do what you want to one photo, select all the rest that you want to apply the changes to and choose Develop Settings > Sync Settings from the Photo menu (or get to it from a right click on the first photo). Check the things you want to apply to all the pics.

BTW, if you're in Gallery view, bring up the filters bar by typing a forward slash [/]

click the pop up in the top right of the filters bar and select Exposure Info

You can then filter all your ISO 400, ISO 800, etc. shots to apply the appropriate level of noise reduction to just those.

There's lots of other useful ways to filter there too.

 

[StuD]

Or select all the photos you want, hold down Alt and turn on autosync. Deselect, select the others and autosync should still be enabled.