How Do I Create a "Batch" Processing? I have maybe 50 images that are saved as PSD files. I would like to create a batch process that would open the PSD files and save them as maximum...

greymule Loc: Colorado

I have maybe 50 images that are saved as PSD files. I would like to create a batch process that would open the PSD files and save them as maximum size JPG files. I checked out some You Tube Tutorials, but they don't seem to help me with each step that I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

In PS click on File>Scripts>Image Processor. Prior to that make sure all of the files are in the same folder.

In the Image Processor Window select the folder you wish to process. Go down the list of selections in the window and hit Run in the upper right corner. The selections will provide you the ability to output the files in various formats and sizes. At that point the files will open and be saved without any further inputs from you.

Here's a link that will help.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/processing-batch-files.html

--Bob

greymule wrote:

I have maybe 50 images that are saved as PSD files. I would like to create a batch process that would open the PSD files and save them as maximum size JPG files. I checked out some You Tube Tutorials, but they don't seem to help me with each step that I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

greymule wrote:

I have maybe 50 images that are saved as PSD files. I would like to create a batch process that would open the PSD files and save them as maximum size JPG files. I checked out some You Tube Tutorials, but they don't seem to help me with each step that I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you have Lightroom it's easy. Set up an export preset to export a psd file as full-sized high quality jpegs, sRGB color space, and highlight all the files you want to do with with, and press "export" - done!

If you have Photoshop, you have Adobe Bridge. The process is somewhat similar. You open Bridge, highlight your images to be converted, then navigate to the menu and select Tools->Photoshop->Image Processor - which will open a dialog box where you can select how you want Photoshop to process the images - in your case you have psd files and you will select "save as jpeg" and indicate where you want to put the converted files. Quality setting of 10 will be excellent and indistinguishable from 12 and the file will be smaller on the hard drive, and if you don't select resize they will be full sized. I would suggest you convert to sRGB. Press run and in a few seconds you'll have your converted images.

greymule Loc: Colorado

rmalarz wrote:

In PS click on File>Scripts>Image Processor.... (show quote)

Thanks, Bob. I greatly appreciate your kind assistance.

greymule Loc: Colorado

Thanks so much for your help. Your help and Bob's will save me beaucoup time. I'll check both out and see which works better on my setup.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

You're very welcome. Glad I could help.
--Bob

greymule wrote:

Thanks, Bob. I greatly appreciate your kind assistance.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

And in LR if you create a preset the process is even faster

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I use Irfanview for a lot of batch processing. See if that will open your PSD files.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

jerryc41 wrote:

I use Irfanview for a lot of batch processing. See if that will open your PSD files.

IrfanView will open a PSD file.
IrfanView is a Windows only program, but I find it very useful. Only basic editing capability but it's my default image viewer because it loads quickly. With the plugins available it has a lot of associated possibilities: will open a wide range of file types, will do contact sheets, overlay text.....
And of course it has a batch mode.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

rmalarz wrote:

In PS click on File>Scripts>Image Processor.... (show quote)

Beat me to it, Bob!! I use it frequently.
Mark

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Mark, it's definitely a time saver. I worked as the official photographer of a pub a few years back. A couple hundred photographs needed to be published to their facebook page any evening there was an event. I'd get home, start the process, go to bed, get up the next morning and all the photos were ready to go. Push them to facebook first thing in the morning and the job was done. Most of the work being done while I was asleep.
--Bob

markngolf wrote:

Beat me to it, Bob!! I use it frequently.
Mark

genesampson

How is batch done in Elements?

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

https://digital-photography-school.com/batch-processing-in-photoshop-elements/
Mark

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

rmalarz wrote:

In PS click on File>Scripts>Image Processor.... (show quote)

Thanks for that info Bob, I've been trying to figure out how to do that for quite a while. I just wish you could do a mixture of portrait and landscape formats at the same time.

phot0n0ob

jerryc41 wrote:

I use Irfanview for a lot of batch processing. See if that will open your PSD files.

AFAIK Irfanview is Windows, only. XnView is a good alternative that is also available on macOS. XnView does offer batch processing of images, too.