Converting bulk RAW files from Lightroom to low resolution JPEGs: My daughter twisted my arm to photograph her local school fundraising night where i had to capture all the guests...

brianmen Loc: Sydney Australia

My daughter twisted my arm to photograph her local school fundraising night where i had to capture all the guests arriving on the "red carpet". The professional they had hired rang them the day of the fundraiser to say she wouldn't be coming.I have now processed around 150 raw photos in lightroom and i need to finish the processing in photoshop. I understand the automation facility in photoshop and also how to record an action to do multiple repetitive tasks in photoshop.
I could export all these photos in bulk from Lightroom to Photoshop but I have never tried to do this with around 150 high resolution raw images and dont know how it will work.
Does anyone know a way to have Photoshop pull the images from Lightroom to then process them using an automated action please?
Looking forward to suggestions. Thanks in advance for your help.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

brianmen wrote:

My daughter twisted my arm to photograph her local... (show quote)

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-play-photoshop-actions-on-multiple-images-with-batch-editing/
http://www.michaelfurtman.com/photoshop_batch.htm
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/photoshop-ccs-batch-command.html

Google is your friend, at least 300,000 responses come up when you google this.

brianmen Loc: Sydney Australia

Thanks. I am up with the play on batching etc the issue i face is having done the bulk of the processing in lightroom i want to photoshop to be able to access the processed lightroom image. If I look at the file in explorer it is has no edits.

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

brianmen wrote:

Thanks. I am up with the play on batching etc the issue i face is having done the bulk of the processing in lightroom i want to photoshop to be able to access the processed lightroom image. If I look at the file in explorer it is has no edits.

If you are wanting to work in photoshop what does explorer have to do with anything?

brianmen Loc: Sydney Australia

In explorer I can see a thumbnail of the image. If I point photoshop to that file to process a batch it will do the processing on that image which is not the processed lightroom image. It makes sense that lightroom exclusively holds the images with all the edits as its non destructive. I want to be able to get at the Lightroom processed image without having to manually send everyone to photoshop.

brianmen Loc: Sydney Australia

I think I have a solution for myself. I am using the export function from lightroon and sending all the files out as PSD to a new file.This will now allow me to run a batch from this folder. Thanks for the contributions. Cheers brian

authorizeduser Loc: Monroe, Michigan

brianmen wrote:

My daughter twisted my arm to photograph her local... (show quote)

Why not just have Lightroom save the 150 photos in whatever format you choose and then let Photoshop work on them? The process is the same for 10 photos or 150 photos. The only difference will be the time it takes to achieve the results.

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

Just curious... what pp are you looking to do in PS that can't be done in LR. I would think that all pp for event photography can be done in LR unless you're looking to change backgrounds.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

authorizeduser wrote:

Why not just have Lightroom save the 150 photos in whatever format you choose and then let Photoshop work on them? The process is the same for 10 photos or 150 photos. The only difference will be the time it takes to achieve the results.

I agree I batch x# of photos from LR to PS then automate>Batch>to whatever action that I want. Then get a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and wait for PS to finish then reimport back to LR and use a preset to export as a JPEG

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

Given the title of the thread is your ultimate goal just to output to Jpegs? You can do that in LR and just skip the PS process... When I do event photography I only edit a handful of images in PS (maybe 3 to 5 percent) - nearly everything including exporting directly to Zenfolio is done within LR.

lloydl2 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

i'm also wondering why go to PS? you can easily set up a preset in lightroom that can be applied to all the photos to adjust wb, exposure, add contrast or whatever and then export the complete set as jpgs to a folder of your specification.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

sloscheider wrote:

Given the title of the thread is your ultimate goal just to output to Jpegs? You can do that in LR and just skip the PS process... When I do event photography I only edit a handful of images in PS (maybe 3 to 5 percent) - nearly everything including exporting directly to Zenfolio is done within LR.

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :roll:

It's amazing how much can be done in LR if you just learn how to do it... PS is for pixel-level changes. LR is for everything global (affecting the whole image).

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

brianmen wrote:

In explorer I can see a thumbnail of the image. If I point photoshop to that file to process a batch it will do the processing on that image which is not the processed lightroom image. It makes sense that lightroom exclusively holds the images with all the edits as its non destructive. I want to be able to get at the Lightroom processed image without having to manually send everyone to photoshop.

Lightroom is nondestructive because it holds instructions in metadata and only shows a low res preview image until you select Develop, where it applies the changes to a copy of your
RAW image. So Lightroom really doesn't hold the changed image, just the instructions to create it. You'd be better off making your action in Lightroom to apply to all images.

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

romanticf16 wrote:

Lightroom is nondestructive because it holds instructions in metadata and only shows a low res preview image until you select Develop, where it applies the changes to a copy of your
RAW image. So Lightroom really doesn't hold the changed image, just the instructions to create it. You'd be better off making your action in Lightroom to apply to all images.

Yop, what he said...

brianmen Loc: Sydney Australia

I transfer from LR to PS as I prefer to use a Topaz plugin for noise reduction and smart sharpen. I also needed to reduce the resolution of the images for them to use on the web.