Monday, March 12, 2007

Batch image processing

This is how you can take a bunch of images that are all different and through Photoshop resize them, change them to black and white, apply filters or do whatever in a really efficient way. If you go through this and are having any troubles, just ask and I'll help you out :)

PART 1:
1) Put all the files you'd like in a folder together, ie: a folder named 'puppies'.
2) Open the first file from puppies in Photoshop.

PART 2:
3) In the history pallet, click on the tab that says 'actions'.
4) Click on the little sideways triangle and select 'new action...' click 'record'. Every action you do after clicking this button will be 'recorded' and applied to all your files.
5) If you'd like to resize your images, for example, go to 'image' --> 'image size'.
6) Click the square 'stop' button on the bottom of the pallet when you're done.

PART 3:
7) Click on 'file' --> 'automate' --> 'batch...'.
8) Click on 'source' and select folder, under 'choose' select puppies.
9) Under 'destination' select 'folder'.
10) 'choose...' a new folder, ie: 'puppies 2'.
11) Click OK. Photoshop will do the rest of the work for you!

2 comments:

szaft said...

Thanks!

Kaelan DM said...

Thanks, Jessie. This is very helpful.