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Wow, day two and I am sticking to my guns about daily blog posts… Not bad.

Today’s Workflow Wednesday post is a YouTube video that I did to inform you all about batch processing. Batch processing can be done with various photo editing programs, from Apple Aperture, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw or even Capture One and so on. The list goes on and on. Heck even photoshop has an Automate feature that will batch process an action for every photo that you selected.

So why batch process? What is batch processing even? Batch processing is a real perk and time saving tool. After all, we are calling this workflow and not work-slow… Right? So you just shot a wedding in RAW. You have like 1,500 or more images to go through and edit. Aw man, your white balance was off for a ton of these… Maybe you even under exposed every single shot by half a stop. Batch processing allows you to select one file that is messed up and ten you go ahead and do the necessary edits to pretty up the photo. From there, you can select as many of the other images that are equally messed up and Sync them all so they can have the same settings across the board. That means you could have just potentially have edited 1,500 images in seconds! Wow! Now you still should batch process your images with something if you shoot RAW… Why is that? Well, RAW files do not contain any of the in-camera settings (like sharpness, contrast, saturation and so on) like an equivalent JPEG does. RAW basically gives you a blank canvas where you have to pretty up the file and give the file some pizazz. Usually, this just means some contrast and sharpening. Once you get the feel for what you like in your files, you can just edit one and batch process the other ones so they are all on the same page. OR you could even create a Lightroom Develop Preset and save all the edits that you find yourself doing time and time again. Instead of memorizing everything you do time and time again, you assign them to a Preset and whola… It is right there for you whenever you need it. Making your own Lightroom Presets will be a good topic down the road don’t you think?

So without further ado, here is the video on batch processing in Lightroom:

Mind you, most all other RAW conversion software also have this feature. Just crack open the manual and find out exactly how it is done with your desired RAW converting software.