MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

I take pictures of birds: sometimes for identification purposes, sometimes to create beautiful pictures. When taking picts I will take 10-15 (or more ) of the same bird in the center of the view. I have then uploaded the pics into mac Photos, cropped them down to about the same size one-by-one (you can apply light/color edits one-by one using Copy/Paste).

So I asked a few people if Lightroom would allow me to batch edit - crop and adjust - and have it applied to the rest of them in the series. They said Lightroom could do that. So I signed up for the new Lightroom CC and tried it - and couldn't find a way. Adobe has about 6 tutorials for Lightroom CC and none of them cover this. You can do this on the new Lightroom Classic CC, so I downloaded that. So my question - is there a way to batch edit in the new Lightroom CC? If not, does that mean I have to use (the more complicated) Lightroom Classic and then synch back to Lightroom CC? Along those same lines can you recommend any series of Lightroom tutorials (I find Adobe's are more like product promotions than an instructional tool). Thanks.

blackest Loc: Ireland

Lightroom cc i don't know about but for classic 6 5 ect you can always copy the adjustments from one photo and paste them on to another or click on the + in the presets section and create a preset this can be for 1 adjustment or all adjustments when saving you get the option of choosing which adjustments to reuse.

You can also select multiple photo's and work on 1 and the others get the same adjustments.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

The new LR CC is meant for mobile devices and transfer back and forth between devices. Smart phones, tablets etc are a small limited work space so it is a simplified version and how would you even see a large catalog of pictures to select them for batch processing? LR Classic is the traditional full featured LR and it can handle this kind of stuff much easier. Those people you asked were used to LR-now LR Classic and gave you an answer based on that app. Not the "new" LR CC.
Are you working on smart phones or small tablets instead of a desktop/laptop? Other wise why use the new simple version? Just because it is simple or some other reason? I haven't even downloaded it, just updated my old version and reminded myself it now called LR Classic.

Jbat Loc: Charleston, SC

I have not looked at the brand new Lightroom CC. From what I read, it is made for people who primarily use cell phones or do light duty editing primarily from the output of iPads or cell phones.

Lightroom Classic, as it is now called, will easily do what you asked for in your comments. I was working on a number of photos today and with some of them I wanted to use the same adjustments on the next two or three that I had used on the earlier one. To do this, I just moved to the next photo in the film strip while in the develop module and clicked "Previous" which causes LR to use all settings used in the previous photo on the current photo. Additionally, if you wanted to copy pieces of those settings to a single photo or a series, once you have the changes done in the first photo, you can then click on any number of photos after that so that they are highlighted along with the first edited photo and then click on the "Sync" button at the bottom of the develop page and it will give you a box with every imaginable thing you want copied to the later photos. You can select any you want or select all if you like. It is a very powerful program for what you are asking.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

I batch edit all of the time, including just prior to writing this. There are several ways. P.S. I like the Martin Evening book best. I don't use videos very much; I don't personally care for the way Scott Kelby teaches, he jumps around too much for me. You can try the Adobe videos, they are short and to the point.

So, you have fifteen photos you are viewing in the Library Module. You "mark" all of them (click on the first one holding down Shift and then click on the last one and they are all marked). You go to the Develop Module and that first one that you clicked on is marked as the one that you will be editing. Most likely you will see, on the right hand editing panel, down at the bottom, something that says Sync; click on the little up/down button just before the word Sync. The box will change to Auto Sync. Auto Sync is what allows you to batch edit. Simply begin to edit that one marked photo (this assumes you have not unmarked any of the photos so the 15 photos (this example) are all still marked. As you edit the one photo all of the photos will change; you will need to look at each one to assure that the edit worked for that individual photo.

You can also do a mini-batch edit one at a time. When you are clicked on the photo you have just edited hit Copy, to the left of the main window at the bottom, and a box will pop up. Determine which settings you want to paste to other photos and click on Save. Click on a new photo and hit Paste, all of the saved edits will be applied.

In the gallery, if you use the Quick Develop buttons, use the same process as described for the batch edit to mark the photos. In this Module you do not need to Sync, just hit mark the photos and use the sliders and all photos will change. If you only want to change some settings and paste them to specific photos use the Sync Settings button.

Hope this helps. Of course you can do this with any number of photos, I only used 15 as an example.

wesm Loc: Los Altos CA

LR CC "Classic" (not LR CC as far as I know) will let you do this.

It's called Sync. In the Develop module, edit one photo to your satisfaction. Then, leaving the edited photo selected, shift or Alt (Cmd on Mac) -click to select the others you want to apply the same edits to. Press the Sync button in the lower right-hand corner of the panel. You'll get a dialog box with the options to apply some or all of your edits to the other photos.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, LR6, as well. I used Sync a couple of days ago on 92 shots. Great feature.

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

I was hoping for some of the same functionality in the new Lightroom CC. Thanks for the response.
Mike

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

Thanks for the link - that's what I want to do, just can't do it on the new Lightroom CC: only on the Lightroom Classic.
Mike

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

Good pointif he is using he wrong application. It's a very recent and confusing change.

That said, in the develop module there is the sync option. modify one picture and then hit the sync option on the page. It will resent a screen that allows you make all the same changes to all the pictures you select in the film strip. I can see where many may generally apply but others may not. If you fired off 12 shots at a relatively stationary bird where very little changes, sync can do wonders.

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

It's interesting that it is very difficult to find a feature comparison between LR CC and LR Classic (i.e. no Develop module in LR CC). As stated in my initial post Adobe barely supports the new LR CC with only 5-6 video tutorials - a novice wouldn't have a clue to do the simplest tasks if they viewed the videos. The new LR CC has a desktop application (which I tried using), a web version (looks just like the desktop application but you access the program via the web and seems to have the same functionality). I do like the look and feel of the new LR CC compared to LR Classic.

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

Thanks for the quick tutorial. I tried "Sync" on the LR Classic and it worked like a charm. No such command on the new LR CC.
Mike

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

Who needs video tutorials when I have UHH experts like you! Thanks for the detailed info.
Mike

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

Thanks for the info. Guess I will abandon the "new Lightroom CC" and use the "old" Lightroom Classic.
Mike