Batch Raw Processing Using Adobe Camera Raw
https://www.shutterbuggs.com/ - In this video, we’re going to take a look at batch raw processing using Camera Raw. Now, as you can see, I’m currently in Adobe Bridge. And what I’d like to do first is select multiple images that I’d like to open and edit in Camera Raw. Now, there are a couple of ways of going about doing this. You can either first hold down the Shift key and use the keyboard arrows to actually select your images, and you can select them in rows of multiple images if you want it to. But, in this particular example I only want to select some particular images, so I’m going to hold down the Command key on a Mac, or the actual Control key on a PC and select the individual files that I actually want to open up.
Now, once I’ve selected them you want to go right-click on one of the selected files and you want to go to Open in Camera Raw. Click on that, and the first thing you’ll notice is that all the images that you’ve selected now display in the left-hand column as thumbnails. So, as you can see, you can flick through all those different images and edit them individually.
Now, to start off with, if you look in the bottom right-hand corner here of the large image you’ll notice that there’s an exclamation mark. Now, this is simply stating that this file has previously been edited in an older version of Camera Raw, and it’s saying that it would like to actually update the XMP file data to the new process of Camera Raw 6.5, which I’m currently using. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to select All and then I’m going to go and click on that. Now, what you’ll notice is all of them have just updated, so none of them have that exclamation mark there anymore.
Now, if you were to make adjustments to one image, you could then apply those adjustments to multiple images. So, for example, if I wanted to say add, let’s say we add 100 clarity to this image. Now, say I would actually like to add all the adjustments that I’ve made to this image to another image or to multiple images, for that matter. What you’d need to do is you need to go across and either select an image, holding down the Command or Control once again, as to which images you actually want to apply those settings to.
Now, the thing to pay particular attention to is the first image that you edit must remain selected. You then must go and select all the other images that you actually want to apply those changes to. So, in this particular case I could have just gone single like that then go and select all or you can hold down that one once again and just go and select say two images that you want it applied to.
So, let’s do it just to these two images. Now, obviously these changes are going to have a dramatic impact on these two particular images themselves, but let’s just do it to actually show you how this works. So, if you click on Synchronize, you’ll notice that you’ll get a complete synchronized panel to show up. And it’ll allow you to choose which particular adjustments and features in Camera Raw that you actually want to apply those same settings to those other two images.
So, in this particular example, if I were to just select Clarity, then only clarity would change, but I could also select every other feature that actually happens to be on this list. But let’s just leave it to clarity. That might actually keep some of the other settings looking relatively okay.
So, now I click Okay, and what you’ll notice now is if I go to these two images, you’ll notice clarity here is updated to 100. And we go to this one, and that has also updated to 100. So, that’s a real neat feature of Camera Raw, being able to edit multiple images especially if they have been shot with the same settings. That really makes things quite easy for you, especially, say for example, if you’ve shot a wedding.
It makes it really easy for you to go through, say, 50 frames and actually go, “That one’s going to be very similar to that one,” and make the same adjustments. And then once you’ve made the overall adjustments to a whole batch of images, you can then go back and slightly make tweaks to each as you go through them all.
Now, once you’ve made your changes to your images, you have the option to export your files. Now, for example, you can click on Save All and then go to Save Images. This now gives you several different options for saving those files that you’ve edited. Now, in this particular example, you could actually take your existing Raw files and actually save them as DNG files.
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