You have selected a bunch of photos for your brand new website and want to edit all of them in the same way. It can be frustrating to repeat each action manually for all the files.

This sounds like an ideal application for batch processing in Photoshop. This can eliminate monotonous and of ten¬repeated steps in the process of photo editing, making the whole process quicker. This is how you go about it: To start with, create a folder and copy the selected photos into it. Press [DJ in Photoshop to set black as the foreground color and call up "File I Automate I Batch". Under the "Play" section, select the set which contains the folder you created. Then define the actual procedure in the "Action" field just below "Set".

Next, set the "Folder" as "Source" and select the directory that contains the photos to be edited. Then close the dialog with "OK". Activate "Override Action 'Open' Commands" if the opened documents are not processed in batches when charting the action performed. The "Suppress Color Profile Warnings" option ensures that inappropriate color management settings do not interrupt the batch processing. Set the folder in which Photoshop should store the edited photos under "Destination".
For easily displaying photos on a website, you should give them unique names and number them. Photoshop also does this for you on request.



You will find six fields that are linked with plus signs under the "File Naming" section. Enter the document name in the first field, select the date in the usual "MMTTYY" format from the second field and define the serial number given by the program in ascending order in the third field. You can specify the serial number to begin within the field below. Then complete the document name in the fourth field by selecting " Extension". Photoshop links the inputs without putting spaces in between. If required, you can separate the entries in the fields with an underscore so that they become clear and legible. You can see the result above the fields-Photoshop displays a sample document name here. On clicking "OK", the program processes the batch and executes the instructions one after the other for each photo.

NOTE: Activate the "Override Action 'Save As' Commands" option in case the action contains a Save command. If the option is not activated, Photoshop overwrites the original file.