Batch Editing Photos
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I did about 30 shots yesterday in PSE9 and it was such a time consuming, unfulfilling waste of time I've changed back to Jpeg. Most of them I couldn't even get to convert to Jpeg for some reason. I just went back to Canon DPP and did them that way. I've just downloaded PSE10 and not sure whether to bother installing it. I was planning to shoot an airshow in RAW this year (normally about 3,000 photos) but I've had second thoughts. Good luck with your 700, at the rate I was going yesterday it'd take about a year.
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Yeah?
I've done a festival last year with a deadline of something of a month, so it wasn't that much of an issue but now i've got to get this done ASAP so now i'm regretting shooting RAW but didn't really think about it due to the fact I never shoot JPEG
God damn it!
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It's clear you need to try and get them as good as you can straight out of camera, which minimises the PP required.
There are quite a few actions/presets available for LR which can help too.
But I agree with you, 700 images is a lot to get through.
At least the final export can be resized, converted to jpeg, watermarked and publishes with just one click !!
There are quite a few actions/presets available for LR which can help too.
But I agree with you, 700 images is a lot to get through.
At least the final export can be resized, converted to jpeg, watermarked and publishes with just one click !!
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Yeah?
its probably one of the best batch programs out there. its what we do all of our event work in, really speedy i find. i managed to get each day of a 3 day equestrian event up in the evenings they happened (5600 shots total).
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Lightroom.Provided the adjustments needed are pretty uniform accross all;
Import all images, make the adjustments to the first one. Then select all images and hit the 'SYNC' button (the 'PREVIOUS' button will change to SYNC when you select more than one other image).
I did see another way earlier this week but i think they would need to be JPEG first (you could convert to JPEG in LR quite quickly). You then record a set of actions in Photoshop and run an 'autoloader' plug-in. This will open each image within a range that you define, apply the actions you select, close and save the image. Seems a bit of a long winded way round unless you need any specific editing that LR cant offer.
For event work I always shoot in Jpeg, and get the images as good as possible in camera, then it is just a case of a quick crop, auto curves maybe clone something out quickly and that is it. Most day events, I take about 1500 shots, and thin it out to about 750 keepers.
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Provided the adjustments needed are pretty uniform accross all;
+1; but the consistency of your shots is key. If every shot needs something different, it's a painstaking handmade process...
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I usually come home with 800-2000 raw files from an event.
Import to Lightroom, go through once to cull. Then edit in sections, ie edit the first one of a 'set' and sync to the rest (shift+cmd+S on a Mac).
Then I go through them all individually to check and tweak if needed, or do any 'fancy' processing on key shots.
Export to JPEG at whatever size is needed and burn to a CD.
Usually get home about 1AM and turn them around for the following afternoon.
Import to Lightroom, go through once to cull. Then edit in sections, ie edit the first one of a 'set' and sync to the rest (shift+cmd+S on a Mac).
Then I go through them all individually to check and tweak if needed, or do any 'fancy' processing on key shots.
Export to JPEG at whatever size is needed and burn to a CD.
Usually get home about 1AM and turn them around for the following afternoon.