About Adobe Batch Processing

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Eric White and today we're going to talk about Adobe Batch Processing. Now have you ever had forty or fifty pictures you want to resize all at once? Well, why do it by hand when you can automate it. Our first step is to open up Adobe Photoshop, which I already have open on the screen here. Now we need to see the actions palette. So I'm going to enable the actions palette over here on the right. Now I'm going to go ahead and open up a photo. I'm going to open up blue hills, it's a really pretty picture. Also, take a moment to open. You can do all kinds of things with the batch processing. You can resize photos, you can crop photos, you can even touch up photos. So what we're going to do to day is, I'm going to create a new action. If you look over on the action's palette, there's a garbage can. Next to the garbage can is the create new action button. We'll go ahead and click that and I'm just going to hit record, just kind of like recording a tape or if you can record your favorite show on television. So hit record and now it's recording, everything that I do. So I'm going to come over here to image and then I'm going to do image size and I'm going to resize this to 400 X 300 pixels. I'm going to hit okay and that resized it. That's what I'm going to do so I'm going to hit stop. Now I come over here, I'm going to go ahead and close this. No I don't want to change it 'cause I'm going to do a batch processing, it's in the batch of photos that I want to process. So come over here to automate; so you go to file and then automate and then go to batch. Now you have to choose a source folder, so I'm going to click on the choose button and here it is already selected for me, there's my source, so I hit okay. My source folder has all the pictures in it that I want to process. And now I got to choose a destination folder. So I'm going to choose batch process, hit okay. In the top here, where it says play default actions, action 2, that's the one that we designed, I'm going to go ahead and hit okay. Now it's going to sit here and think for a little bit and then you're going to see it start to flash and process these and resize each folder and put them into the batch process folder. Now I can go over here to my batch process folder and they're all four files, I double click it and there it is. And in a nutshell, that's batch processing in Adobe Photoshop. Thank you."