April 2008 Newsletter

Hello Rawshooters!

This month we are pleased to announce that we’ve added another Mac Pro to our system to speed up the turn around times. The new machine is all set up, it’s fast and performs well.

We are still in the market for a faster web hosting company. Our goal is to make the upload and download times as short as possible.

Some of our raw shooters have asked about Batch Processing in Photoshop. It seems that it is a very common question. This newsletter explains how to resize photos using batch processing, a feature which can save you lots of time!

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How do I resize and save the images using Batch process in Photoshop?

The Batch process is a great tool in Photoshop that can save lots of time. Imagine that you want to resize 200 images! It’s very time consuming to open and resize one photo at a time. The Batch process tool makes this job very easy for you.

This set up works only in Photoshop 7 or newer; it does not work with Elements, or at least not that I am aware of. (If you know how to batch process in Elements, please let me know.)   

1. Batch process needs an Action to work with. So the first step is to create an Action.
2. Open a picture in Photoshop and go to Action Tab and select Create new Action.
3. Choose a name for the Action, for example: Resize. For the SET section leave it as Default Actions.atn
4. Click on Record button.
5. Now go to the Menu Bar at the top of the page and select Image>Image size.
6. At this point you are going to give your action specific instructions for how you want to batch process your files.  For example: 300 dpi is the optimum dpi for printing, but not all digital cameras create files at 300 dpi. In Document size you can select 300 pixels/inch for the Resolution, then click OK.  Do you want to change the dimensions of your files?  Again, simply enter the new pixel dimensions, for example 1500x1180, then click OK. 
7. Go to File>save and close the photo.
8. Stop the action by clicking the Stop button in the Action Tab. Now you have an Action that you can use to Batch Process those 200 photos!
9. Go to File>Automate>Batch
10.  In the Set select Default Action.atn. For Action select the action that you already created, in this example we called it Resize.
11. Since Photoshop is not nondestructive software, I recommend creating a copy of the photos being batch processed, put them in a folder and keep the original files untouched.
12. For the Source select the Folder and click on Choose Button to select your source folder (the folder that has the images for resizing).
13. Since we created the Action to overwrite the original file, select the same folder for your Destination.
14. Click OK and sit back with your coffee or tea and let Photoshop do the rest for you!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Do you have suggestions for future tutorials? Please send your suggestions and comments to: info@rawdigitalimageediting.com.

Have a good month ~ we’ll be back again in May.
Ted and Omnilargess Team

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