amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

It's dead simple to batch edit images in Lightroom.... In the develop module you select the batch of images you want to edit, then do your work on the first of them. Once you've got it where you want it, click the "Sync" button in the lower, right hand corner. This opens a dialog box that allows you to select which of the editing adjustments you want to apply to all the images. You can only apply one or several or all of the same edits.

Forget the online tutorials... those can be helpful to learn how to do some specific action, but aren't very comprehensive. Buy a book or two about Lightroom, such as Scott Kelby's. Much more detailed and thorough.

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

Thanks for the info. Perhaps a book would be better than trying to find a specific topic within a longer video.
Mike

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

I really like the way Laura Shoe does her videos in 5 to 15 minute topic based bites... For me it is good to actually see the steps being done too...

Best,
Todd Ferguson

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Then I have no frigging idea which Lightroom CC I'm running other than it is the most current: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC Release 2015.10.1 Camera Raw 9.10.1 and it is full featured!

bwa

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Actually with those release numbers it looks like you are one update behind.
I got mine as a pop up when I opened CC last week some people got them a few weeks ago.
When you get it just be careful to select the correct versions to download and install. Light Room has become Light Room Classic and the name Light Room CC is now the web/cloud based version designed for mobile devices (formerly Light Room Mobile) and set up to transfer things back and forth between them. It also stores your images in the cloud by default and you have to tell it to save them locally in preferences. It is a stripped down version with more stuff to be added later. The question is when?
I picked Photo Shop's update and LR Classic, I also updated Camera Raw but did not install Light Room CC. Now it keeps offering it to me and doesn't seem to take no for an answer very well. Adobe CC opens to the update page and when I click apps it opens to the page with all apps listed and download or trial buttons on all the apps I don't have. I have to click the "installed apps" tab to get only the ones I have/want/use. I keep worrying that I will be half asleep, sneeze as I click the mouse or something and download and install something I don't want.
Oh, they also announced that at the end of the year LR 6 (standalone) will no longer be upgraded etc. and there will not be a LR 7 stand alone. I have LR 6 on a laptop since before I "tried CC" two years ago. I wanted to be able to use/access all my pictures and edits in case I didn't keep CC since it changed LR 5's catalog format to LR 6's format and I was told you can't change back.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Yup, you're right. I am out-of-date on most of my CC releases. Apparently my CC Manager was disabled!? Thanks

I also notice there are three versions of Lightroom I can choose from; getting darned confusing!

bwa

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

That is not the most current. That would be Photoshop 2017.1.1 Version 19.0, and Lightroom Classic CC 2018 Version 7.01. Camera Raw is now version 9.12.1.790 on older systems and 10.x on newer systems.

(The older Lightroom CC 2015 is now Lightroom *Classic* CC 2018. The former Lightroom Mobile is now Lightroom CC 2018.)

If you are on a Mac, you have to be using specific versions of Mac OS and specific hardware to run the latest LR Classic CC. See Adobe's site for details.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Yup, now updated to the most recent...

bwa

pecohen Loc: Central Maine

You can do bulk edits in LR, but I'd be careful about doing this with cropping. The problem is that LR will crop all of them exactly alike. This would be fine if the birds all happen to be in exactly the same spot in the image for all of the images, but I doubt this would be the case. Actually, I'm talking about LR Classic - I have exactly no experience with the new LR CC but I doubt that this new product would be any better at guessing how you want to crop each image.

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

I have converted over to LR Classic and have done bulk edits - they get me 90% of where I want to go. If the bird was not in the center I can then quickly adjust the crop. Still a time-saver.
Mike

PS the New product doesn't do bulk edits.

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

I'll check them out. Found Adobe's J. Kost and they are quite good but still difficult to find the video that describes what I am specifically looking for.
Mike