Correcting several images at once with cs3

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Hi :wave:

Is it possible to work with several images at once so the adjustments i make to one image are applied to several others? if so how

Thanks Dave
 
it is possible, you need to realise what adjustments you need to make, and save as an action. From there you can either batch process via bridge, using that action - Or, you can open them individually and just press "play" on the action you have created.
 
dellipher said:
it is possible, you need to realise what adjustments you need to make, and save as an action. From there you can either batch process via bridge, using that action - Or, you can open them individually and just press "play" on the action you have created.
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Thanks :) but i was kind of hoping that i could do it without actions as each action would be different depending on the set of shots. Is there not a way to open several shots and whilst applying say levels/saturation/sharpness to one it would do it on the others.

Dave:thumbs:
 
I think you'd just have to "select and copy" I think - but tbh, thats going to take a while.
If "Studio 16" I can assume your a studio photographer - then your studio shots, like ours in our studio - we do the same action on all the photographs - but sometimes every shoot might make a minor tweak - for making an action in photoshop is going to save you a hell of a lot of time.
 
Thanks again dellipher.

I have uploaded 3 shots for an example. whilst processing these i did them individually but did not know what the end result would be like until i had done the first one so creating an action would not have been thought of at this stage (if you get what i mean, im terrible at explaining :bonk: )

Sometimes i get home and many of my shots are roughly the same exposure so generaly they could all do with a tweak i.e levels/saturation etc but the action i create for these would be different from the next days shoot if you get me so i guess im just after a quick fix to say x amount of shots on the screen at any time

im confusing myself now:nuts:

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Studio16 said:
Thanks again dellipher.

I have uploaded 3 shots for an example. whilst processing these i did them individually but did not know what the end result would be like until i had done the first one so creating an action would not have been thought of at this stage (if you get what i mean, im terrible at explaining :bonk: )

Sometimes i get home and many of my shots are roughly the same exposure so generaly they could all do with a tweak i.e levels/saturation etc but the action i create for these would be different from the next days shoot if you get me so i guess im just after a quick fix to say x amount of shots on the screen at any time

im confusing myself now:nuts:
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I generally find what I want to do - and then re-do it again as an action to make sure Its definately what I want.
You can also start it as an action and edit the action as you're doing it.
If they're roughly the same exposure, and need just "basic" edits then I still thing workflow wise batch processing and actions is the quickest way to go.
As I also explained sometimes even in the studio, depending on the actual person/child/clothes etc, then we have to make tweaks from one shoot to the next. Doing this as an action might take 3-minutes but will save you an hour if not longer.

Its all about managing your time and your work-flow, something a lot of people still struggle with.
 
dellipher said:
its all about managing your time and your work-flow, something a lot of people still struggle with.
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yep:thumbs: i do still struggle at times but am desperate to get this workflow thing cracked this year

Many thanks for your time
Dave :thumbs:
 
It depends on what software you have, if you have CS3 or CS4 then you can to a point.
Open Bridge, highlight the images you want to ajust (RAW TIFF or JPEG only) go to file/open/open in camera raw then you'll have a row of pics down the left hand side, click the select all and ajust away. Wayne
 
dellipher said:
But surely it depends if he wants to adjust just what he can adjust in raw, or make other adjustments in CS3 etc...
You can also batch process a selction of x-amount of images too dont have to do them all.
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Thats way I said up to a point. He can ajust exposure, curves, colours, sharpness, noise reduction, highlight recovery, in fact most of the basic ajustments, he can't swop heads, but he cant do that with actions either. Wayne
 
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