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How to batch edit photos that already have edits.

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Paul Rayner

I have about 200 photos that I have edited for a client.  But they client has come back to me saying that they want them all a bit more saturated and a bit brighter midtones.

How can I add a generalised saturation and midtone adjustment too all the 200 images without changing all the other edits I have done individually to each photo?

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  • Brian Lawson Community moderator

    I can't think of any way to do this if you are working on RAW files. At first I was thinking of a preset containing just those edits but there isn't any way to Insert it outside of the editor which leaves you with having to do them one by one.

    However, if you gave the client exported, finished files you could use that technique. Edit one image with Effects and/or Local Adjustments then create a preset containing just those edits; turn off all other options in the Save Preset dialog. Now you can select all the images in the Browser and use the Use Preset command to apply it to all of them at once.

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  • Peter Pfeiffer

    If you provided your client full resolution images ... open one in edit, adjust saturation and brightness, save and view, select all 200 and sync insuring the file just edited is super selected, after sync is finished select all and export to a new directory.

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  • Brian Lawson Community moderator

    Or, what Peter said. ;)

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  • Paul Rayner

    Peter, if I did this with Jpegs, won't I be compressing it twice, and losing quality.

    I did give my client the full-res images, but in Jpeg form.  So I'd be compression a Jpeg again, into another Jpeg.

     

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  • Brian Lawson Community moderator

    You could re-export them all to TIFF then apply the changes as described above.

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  • Paul Rayner

    I am encountering this problem quite a lot. And I feel like there should be a better way to deal with this. I am going to make a feature request.

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  • Paul Rayner

    I tried to access the "Project" page and got told that I cannot access it because I do not own On1 RAW. I assume this is because I have 2019 and not 2021. So then I have the question: Does 2021 have this functionality?

     

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  • Brian Lawson Community moderator

    As long as you own a copy of the program and you are logged into your ON1 account you should be able to make comments even though you do not have 2021. All the comments made here apply to 2021 as well as 2020.

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