David_Wallis

For my diy fmic thread and others I take the pics and open them in photoshop, increase the brightness and then do save for web.... and then save these over the top of the orginal..

Any way of automating this?

David

Dream Weaver

Dave

You can do a batch process using Fireworks, but not sure about PhotoShop - would think there is an option there somewhere.

In Fireworks, it is in the File menu IIRC. You simply state the images you want to batch update, then set attributes such as scaling, naming conventions, where to save, brightness etc etc.

A very handy tool - may be worth obtaining a trial version of Fireworks just for this purpose - mail me if you need any help

DW

AndyC_772

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You could try downloading Breezebrowser from http://www.breezesys.com. That has a feature to generate proofs from a set of images, and can automatically adjust levels and gamma in the process. It might do what you're after.

The free version is fully functional but limited to 12 images per folder - why not give it a go?

Andy.

chiark

Yes. Create an action that does what you want it to do. To do this, open a sample picture, click the red record button in actions, make the necessary changes (auto levels, whatever) then save for web. Set your quality settings, etc... Then close the picture. Once finished, click the stop button. Call it something sensible.

Then look in file menu/automate/batch. Select the action you want to run, select the folder containing pics to run it on, et voila!

Only caveat is that pictures will be saved in the directory that you specified when recording the action.

David_Wallis

cheers all.

Shall try that tonight.

David

David_Wallis

Cheers Nick.

David