Putting high resolution pix on disc

[petedam]

K guys and gals, i recently shot a family portrait for a friend. I shot in RAW and have about 80 pix to give to them. I want to put it on a CD for them in high resolution but was wondering how I should go about it.


Do I do a batch convert to jpeg and give to them?
If I want to do some edit on them can I do batch edit? If so how?I know you pros do your edit before you put on discs for your clients so if you don't mind give me some tips that'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[sctbiggs]

I think you answered your own question...???

My workflow is a mess. I'm all over the place... I don't really understand what your question is. I edit a few here and a few there. When I'm done editing them all. I copy to disk(s)(es)(eseses). However many disks that it takes.

[petedam]

what I was trying to say was....if I have 80 pix and want to edit and put on disc. Raw to Jpeg obviously. I know how to convert them but how about if I want to edit them as well. I also understand you can create actions? Not all pictures are the same some maybe underexposed and some maybe over exposed....with that said, how do I batch edit and convert? If possible without having to do them one at a time?

Thanks,

[egordon99]

1)In Bridge, just browse through files, anything I plan on delivering gets a "6" (5-stars are for family stuff, so the six is for customers). I set up Bridge so I don't even need Ctrl-6, just six.
2)Once I cull through them all, I filter so only "6" shots are shown.
3)I select 10 at a time to open in ACR
4)In ACR, I just quickly go through each shot, adjusting WB, exposure, black level, contrast, brightness, fill light. Sometimes I go into more sliders/tabs, but I try to keep it basic.
5)Hit done, and bring up 10 more.
6)Once I'm done with all the shots, I use ImageProcessor along with a custom Action driving "AbsoluteSharpeningWeb" to generate 800-pixel wide sharpened-for-web shots. This creates JPGs in a designated folder
7)Go into designated folder and upload to my Gallery2
8)Re-run ImageProcessor again to generate full-resolution JPGs to burn to DVD for customer
9)Go to sleep :)

[gonzogolf]

I guess that depends on what you mean by edit. If you just want to make some corrections in a batch you can just open them as a group in acr, make your adjustments to white balance, sharpness etc, to one, then sync it with the others that are open. Then save straight from acr. I dont really call that editing, thats more group conversion. For me editing is PP on each specific image.

[egordon99]

^ +1

Yep, editing+batch processing is an oxymoron :lol:

[petedam]

1)In Bridge, just browse through files, anything I plan on delivering gets a "6" (5-stars are for family stuff, so the six is for customers). I set up Bridge so I don't even need Ctrl-6, just six.
2)Once I cull through them all, I filter so only "6" shots are shown.
3)I select 10 at a time to open in ACR
4)In ACR, I just quickly go through each shot, adjusting WB, exposure, black level, contrast, brightness, fill light. Sometimes I go into more sliders/tabs, but I try to keep it basic.
5)Hit done, and bring up 10 more.
6)Once I'm done with all the shots, I use ImageProcessor along with a custom Action driving "AbsoluteSharpeningWeb" to generate 800-pixel wide sharpened-for-web shots. This creates JPGs in a designated folder
7)Go into designated folder and upload to my Gallery2
8)Re-run ImageProcessor again to generate full-resolution JPGs to burn to DVD for customer
9)Go to sleep :)

I guess that depends on what you mean by edit. If you just want to make some corrections in a batch you can just open them as a group in acr, make your adjustments to white balance, sharpness etc, to one, then sync it with the others that are open. Then save straight from acr. I dont really call that editing, thats more group conversion. For me editing is PP on each specific image.

Thank you very much!

[Bob_A]

what I was trying to say was....if I have 80 pix and want to edit and put on disc. Raw to Jpeg obviously. I know how to convert them but how about if I want to edit them as well. I also understand you can create actions? Not all pictures are the same some maybe underexposed and some maybe over exposed....with that said, how do I batch edit and convert? If possible without having to do them one at a time?

Thanks,

Pete, I'd open them in your RAW converter and edit them individually. Unless you're in complete control of the lighting and shot in Manual it's unlikely that you can use the same settings for every image. This is what I do in ACR on a image by image basis:

1. Correct white balance
2. Correct exposure using the Recovery and Exposure Sliders. I try to get the image to the point where there is little to no clipping on the right hand side
3. Correct the black point such that the blacks just start to clip.
4. Adjust brightness and contrast to your liking.
5. Straighten and crop.

Batch convert to jpeg at the highest resolution with sRGB as the colorspace. I convert with sharpening turned off.

Open the images up in Photoshop and apply USM (unsharp mask). For both my 20D and D700 a setting of 300, 0.3, 0 gives reasonable sharpening for full sized images. For this step I've often used an action along with File->Automate->Batch.

Edit:

Before applying USM I open Curves for each image and check the white point and black point (I like them to be just short of clipping) and touch up the contrast if required. For some reason the converted jpeg viewed in PS is a (very) slightly different image than what I viewed in ACR.

[tim]

Just do whatever you can in Bridge/Lightroom, batch to jpeg at full size, put them on a disk. Easy.

[petedam]

Pete, I'd open them in your RAW converter and edit them individually. Unless you're in complete control of the lighting and shot in Manual it's unlikely that you can use the same settings for every image. This is what I do in ACR on a image by image basis:

1. Correct white balance
2. Correct exposure using the Recovery and Exposure Sliders. I try to get the image to the point where there is little to no clipping on the right hand side
3. Correct the black point such that the blacks just start to clip.
4. Adjust brightness and contrast to your liking.
5. Straighten and crop.

Batch convert to jpeg at the highest resolution with sRGB as the colorspace. I convert with sharpening turned off.

Open the images up in Photoshop and apply USM (unsharp mask). For both my 20D and D700 a setting of 300, 0.3, 0 gives reasonable sharpening for full sized images. For this step I've often used an action along with File->Automate->Batch.

Just do whatever you can in Bridge/Lightroom, batch to jpeg at full size, put them on a disk. Easy.

Thank you!

[petedam]

Thanks again to everyone that responded! You guys are awesome!

Bob - good point I try to do the black and white point all the time when I edit. :) Threshold>black and white point