another workflow question

Hello All,<br><br>

 

Let me first say that even if I don't post here regularly (I don't

shoot weddings, only some events, so I had nothing really to

contribute to this forum that wouldn't have been said better by you

guys) I learned tremendously by only reading what others have

written here! Together with the lighting forum this must be one of

the best photography resources available!<br><br>

 

That being said I have one question though regarding digital

workflow with PS CS...<br>

Currently I have it configured to do almost all of the stuff

automatically, but I have one problem with it still...<br><br>

 

I use Camera Raw to preprocess and update all my images, then I

create my contact sheets out of the file browser from the updated

RAW files (learned that trick from Marc! Thanks for that!)<br>

Now lets say my customer has selected 50 images as per contract from

the 200 or so proofs, what would you do next? Do I have to open each

and every of these pictures by hand (lets say none of them would

need further tweaking) to save and print them?<br>

Is there a way to save them right out of the File Browser without

opening them, and fully automated (something like select the images,

click on 'save', specify where and off it goes without further

input)?<br>

Currently it takes a lot of time and work to save them by hand (like

for the last concert I shot, I had to do reprints of about 100

distinctive shots... took a long time to save them manually)<br><br>

I suppose I could create an action for it easily, but how do you go

about saving? If you save from an action, it will always be in the

same hardcoded directory... Or I could leave the save art out or

make it ask for my input, but then would have to sit all the time

in front of the computer, which kinda defeats the purpose of

automatization...<br>

Is there a way to automate printing as well? I imagine you would

have to create a separate action for portrait and landscape

pics...<br><br>

 

Lots of questions I know<br><BR>

 

Thanks a lot for your precious help!<br><br>

Best Regards,<br>

Claude<div></div>

A simple open/resize/save action will do the job fast, I do all the tweaking in ACR then run an action which sharpens and does some minor tweaks before saving as jpg's.

 

I turn off the auto-rotate feature in the camera, all my pics come out landscape so I can apply a 7X5" crop to all pics without having to rotate.

Ben,<br>

thanks for your answer! Where do you save them, always the same directory and then copy them over to the clients folder?

Nope, you can set up where to batch from, and where to save to in the 'Batch Processing' window. Each client gets a folder. In it are RAW, HIRES and LORES sub-folders. THe files are batched from the RAW folder to the HIRES, and then batched again from the HIRES folder, with a 7X5" crop, to the LORES folder. The LORES is used for 7X5 proofs, the HIRES for everything bigger.