Edit and Resize Batches of Photos

Posted: May 26, 2016

[caption id="attachment_12726" align="alignright" width="446"] Image from digital-photography-school.com[/caption] Often, the most time-consuming process of photography is editing. There may be instances where the same editing and resizing parameters apply to a large number of pictures. Fortunately, Photoshop offers a way to easily bulk edit photos. By implementing these simple steps, photographers can apply edits to batches, rather than one-by-one. Suzi Pratt, writer for Digital Photography School, shares tips on how to edit and resize photos in bulk.

How to do Bulk Resize and Edit in Photoshop

Have you ever found yourself with a batch of photos that you needed to have edited in the same way? Rather than editing each image one-by-one, Adobe Photoshop offers batch editing processes that can help you save time, while preserving consistent quality among your images. This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop Actions to resize and edit multiple photos, along with a quick tip on how to replicate this process in Lightroom. What You Need The bulk editing process is pretty easy and straightforward, requiring just a handful of things:

• A batch of images you want to bulk edit
• Adobe Bridge
• Adobe Photoshop
• Basic Photoshop working knowledge

Get Started: Record an Action in Photoshop The very first step is to determine the process or edit that you wish to have automated, and record it as an Action in Photoshop. In this case, let’s use the example of resizing an image. Then you’ll use Bridge to select your set of images and apply the Action to all of them at once. Read the entire article How to do Bulk Resize and Edit in Photoshop on Digital Photography School.