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Jul 22, 2014 13:36:33   #
Turtlesoup Loc: Coastal North Carolina
 
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise with some other couples. One of our friends had been shooting pictures in Paris and returned to the boat very upset because suddenly all his images were very dark. He thought his camera was broken. I took a look and realized he had inadvertently underexposed his shots by three stops. I put the camera back to a normal setting and told him (without thinking) that I thought I could post process and brighten his images for him. Now home, I popped them into Lightroom increased exposure, sync'd them with some other minor adjustments and voila, they looked much better. Then realized Lightroom does not make permanent changes and without Lightroom he would not see the corrections. There are 118 images and I could put each in Photoshop but before doing so I wonder if there is anything else I can do that will make this quick and easy?

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Jul 22, 2014 13:39:05   #
Rongnongno Loc: FL
 
Turtlesoup wrote:
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise with some other couples. One of our friends had been shooting pictures in Paris and returned to the boat very upset because suddenly all his images were very dark. He thought his camera was broken. I took a look and realized he had inadvertently underexposed his shots by three stops. I put the camera back to a normal setting and told him (without thinking) that I thought I could post process and brighten his images for him. Now home, I popped them into Lightroom increased exposure, sync'd them with some other minor adjustments and voila, they looked much better. Then realized Lightroom does not make permanent changes and without Lightroom he would not see the corrections. There are 118 images and I could put each in Photoshop but before doing so I wonder if there is anything else I can do that will make this quick and easy?
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise wit... (show quote)

LR exports the final product(s) to anything you want, what would be the point of that software editing features otherwise?

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Jul 22, 2014 13:42:32   #
Searcher Loc: Kent, England
 
Turtlesoup wrote:
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise with some other couples. One of our friends had been shooting pictures in Paris and returned to the boat very upset because suddenly all his images were very dark. He thought his camera was broken. I took a look and realized he had inadvertently underexposed his shots by three stops. I put the camera back to a normal setting and told him (without thinking) that I thought I could post process and brighten his images for him. Now home, I popped them into Lightroom increased exposure, sync'd them with some other minor adjustments and voila, they looked much better. Then realized Lightroom does not make permanent changes and without Lightroom he would not see the corrections. There are 118 images and I could put each in Photoshop but before doing so I wonder if there is anything else I can do that will make this quick and easy?
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise wit... (show quote)


Right click on the edited image, choose Export and fill in the dialogues. The originals will not change, the exported images will show the improvements you have made.

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Jul 22, 2014 13:42:43   #
jimni2001 Loc: Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA
 
You could record an action when working on the first one in Photoshop and use that action to batch process the rest of the photos as long as you want to do the same thing to all of them.

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Jul 22, 2014 13:44:45   #
Searcher Loc: Kent, England
 
A complete set of quick and easy Lightroom tutorials can be found in the PP section tutorials list.


Click here to come in and look around
Click here for the Tutorials and Tips index page
Click here for the Free software index
Click here to subscribe to the Post-Processing Digital Images section, click on "All Sections" and scroll to the second-to-last item:
Post-Processing Digital Images and click to subscribe in the appropriate box.

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Jul 22, 2014 13:49:31   #
minniev Loc: MIssissippi
 
Turtlesoup wrote:
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise with some other couples. One of our friends had been shooting pictures in Paris and returned to the boat very upset because suddenly all his images were very dark. He thought his camera was broken. I took a look and realized he had inadvertently underexposed his shots by three stops. I put the camera back to a normal setting and told him (without thinking) that I thought I could post process and brighten his images for him. Now home, I popped them into Lightroom increased exposure, sync'd them with some other minor adjustments and voila, they looked much better. Then realized Lightroom does not make permanent changes and without Lightroom he would not see the corrections. There are 118 images and I could put each in Photoshop but before doing so I wonder if there is anything else I can do that will make this quick and easy?
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise wit... (show quote)


If you select all of your friends pictures in LR , choose export from the file menu choose jpeg and a destination folder of your making but no other settings, you can then export the whole lot of them in full size versions and he can view them in anything. You can then share his folder with him via dropbox or on a thumb drive or DVD. This should take you about 2 minutes but you may have to leave LR alone a few more minutes so it can work through the files.

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Jul 22, 2014 14:41:40   #
Bill Houghton Loc: New York area
 
Just export like mentioned above to the same chip you took them off. If not delete his files and export to his SD then he can copy them off.

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Jul 22, 2014 15:49:12   #
UtahBob Loc: Southern NJ
 
Turtlesoup wrote:
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise with some other couples. One of our friends had been shooting pictures in Paris and returned to the boat very upset because suddenly all his images were very dark. He thought his camera was broken. I took a look and realized he had inadvertently underexposed his shots by three stops. I put the camera back to a normal setting and told him (without thinking) that I thought I could post process and brighten his images for him. Now home, I popped them into Lightroom increased exposure, sync'd them with some other minor adjustments and voila, they looked much better. Then realized Lightroom does not make permanent changes and without Lightroom he would not see the corrections. There are 118 images and I could put each in Photoshop but before doing so I wonder if there is anything else I can do that will make this quick and easy?
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise wit... (show quote)


I'm sure he will think your wizardry is great and might pony up to acquiring a copy of LR. So between the RAW and the xmp file transferred over he should have your changes unless you save to a dng file and the use that ... you could be an LR salesperson :thumbup:

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Jul 22, 2014 17:26:19   #
Turtlesoup Loc: Coastal North Carolina
 
Thank you everyone. I had a serious duh moment...please write it off to jet lag. I appreciate your responding so promptly, now have no excuse for putting it off.

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Jul 22, 2014 17:27:31   #
Turtlesoup Loc: Coastal North Carolina
 
You are right. I think he could have a budding interest in photography given that he had his camera out and was shooting everything that moved.

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Jul 22, 2014 17:30:08   #
Turtlesoup Loc: Coastal North Carolina
 
Searcher wrote:
Right click on the edited image, choose Export and fill in the dialogues. The originals will not change, the exported images will show the improvements you have made.
Thank you, was obvious once you mentioned it. I got myself confused when I decided to squeeze them back on the full SD card he gave me...and well, just wasn't thinking.

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Jul 22, 2014 21:00:05   #
SharpShooter Loc: NorCal
 
Turtlesoup wrote:
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise with some other couples. One of our friends had been shooting pictures in Paris and returned to the boat very upset because suddenly all his images were very dark. He thought his camera was broken. I took a look and realized he had inadvertently underexposed his shots by three stops. I put the camera back to a normal setting and told him (without thinking) that I thought I could post process and brighten his images for him. Now home, I popped them into Lightroom increased exposure, sync'd them with some other minor adjustments and voila, they looked much better. Then realized Lightroom does not make permanent changes and without Lightroom he would not see the corrections. There are 118 images and I could put each in Photoshop but before doing so I wonder if there is anything else I can do that will make this quick and easy?
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise wit... (show quote)


Turtle, if he was shooting Canon, why doesn't he just do them in his DPP, or you could do them for him. You guys are obviously using the same brand. It would just be a recipe applied to every shot.That would take all of 5 minutes. Then the ones that he really wanted, assuming he will discard the standard 90% can be localized in LR.
I'm sure every brands in-house PP program does the same exact thing. ;-)
SS

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Jul 23, 2014 04:49:09   #
Turtlesoup Loc: Coastal North Carolina
 
SharpShooter wrote:
Turtle, if he was shooting Canon, why doesn't he just do them in his DPP, or you could do them for him. You guys are obviously using the same brand. It would just be a recipe applied to every shot.That would take all of 5 minutes. Then the ones that he really wanted, assuming he will discard the standard 90% can be localized in LR.
I'm sure every brands in-house PP program does the same exact thing. ;-)
SS

He lives in Delaware, I am in North Carolina for part of the reason. Secondly, he really had no idea how to operate his camera. Seemed simplist to put them in LR, adjust one image and sync rest to it, and put them back on his card (which I'll send to him). If I were more rested when I did it I wouldn't have even had a question but was trying to handle too much at once.

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Jul 23, 2014 06:21:43   #
rpavich Loc: West Virginia
 
Turtlesoup wrote:
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise with some other couples. One of our friends had been shooting pictures in Paris and returned to the boat very upset because suddenly all his images were very dark. He thought his camera was broken. I took a look and realized he had inadvertently underexposed his shots by three stops. I put the camera back to a normal setting and told him (without thinking) that I thought I could post process and brighten his images for him. Now home, I popped them into Lightroom increased exposure, sync'd them with some other minor adjustments and voila, they looked much better. Then realized Lightroom does not make permanent changes and without Lightroom he would not see the corrections. There are 118 images and I could put each in Photoshop but before doing so I wonder if there is anything else I can do that will make this quick and easy?
My wife and I were in Europe on a river cruise wit... (show quote)


In LR (to expand on what the others have said) your files aren't "finished products" until you "export" them.

LR is a "digital darkroom" and while your images are in LR...they aren't out of the "dark room" yet...they must be "printed" as a final product...just like in the old days :)


So...once you are done with an image...export it and file it away...no reason to have a butt-load of images hanging around LR....

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Jul 23, 2014 06:38:12   #
blackest Loc: Ireland
 
Bill Houghton wrote:
Just export like mentioned above to the same chip you took them off. If not delete his files and export to his SD then he can copy them off.


Do not do this! Put them on a second card or on a disk or flash drive but do not erase his original shots.

While your post processing may be of a reasonable standard, the original files can be used to process in any number of ways. Some of which will be better than the results originally obtained.

If the friend wants to delete his photographs, thats fine, but don't assume you know best and destroy his property.

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