A question about DR using DPP

If I am batching 300 images is there a way to boost the blacks globally? I move the left DR slider but it appears I can only do one image at a time. Any other global solution? I'm trying to avoid exporting them all into PS and use levels or another option to do this.

Thanks in advance.

In the Main Window select the thumbnails for each image that you want to apply a global change to, then open the Tools Pallet (Ctrl T) and make your changes. Any adjustment you make in the tools pallet will be applied to all the images you have highlighted. Then you can open the batch process window to save/export.

Or you can open 1 image into the edit window make your adjustments, and then under Edit "Copy Recipe to Clipboard". Then back in the main window select all the thumbnails of the images that you want to apply the same changes to. Then Right click and select "Paste Recipe to Selected images". The changes will be applied to all the selected images, and then you can batch process to export/save as jpeg or tiff.

That's nifty -- I didn't know that about doing Ctl-T on multiple images

tonylong wrote in post #12355348
That's nifty -- I didn't know that about doing Ctl-T on multiple images

Ctl-T just opens the Tools Pallet. The only problem in doing it from the main window that way is that you can only see the adjustments being applied to the Thumbnails. It's best to open one image into the edit window where you can review it at a larger size while you make the adjustments. Then save the recipe to the clipboard then apply the recipe to all the images.

Unless all the images are exactly the same I don't make global changes like that. Adjusting the Dark points on one image might not be the same necessary on another.

Yeah I don't automatically synchronize in Lightroom either, but it's nice to know that it's there.

Another thing you can do is open a series of selected images with Ctl->Right Arrow and then you can click around to fine tune, and you can also select one and do an Edit/Copy recipe to clipboard and then Paste it to one image or to all the filmstrip images.

tkerr wrote in post #12355122
In the Main Window select the thumbnails for each image that you want to apply a global change to, then open the Tools Pallet (Ctrl T) and make your changes. Any adjustment you make in the tools pallet will be applied to all the images you have highlighted. Then you can open the batch process window to save/export.

Or you can open 1 image into the edit window make your adjustments, and then under Edit "Copy Recipe to Clipboard". Then back in the main window select all the thumbnails of the images that you want to apply the same changes to. Then Right click and select "Paste Recipe to Selected images". The changes will be applied to all the selected images, and then you can batch process to export/save as jpeg or tiff.

Yes. I have been watching the DPP tutorials al evening and that works very well. If I make a change to the DR slider it will change the other images when I copy the recipe. Only thing is the histogram is not in the same position for each image.

The reason I ask is I normally work in PS one image at a time (90% of the time) use levels and or curves to liven up the image. I have another event to shoot this weekend and I'm preparing myself for batch processing.

I am also testing LR and you can give the Blacks a boost to 10, 15 or 20 in one image then sync the remaining images. I'm trying to find a quick way to do this in DPP. This is the last thing I have to figure out.

Well, like you said -- the histogram may not be the same in each image but, well, the adjustment will be applied. Lightroom has the auto synch tools which can be useful to apply relative adjustments. In the DPP RGB tab there are some quick "auto adjust" tools that could be played with.

Thanks. It's not like I am trying to make fine art prints. I used to batch about every few months so but it is happening a little more often now. LR has great features but I'm not sure $300 is worth it at this point in time for me. I am very happy with DPP as my converter and then using PS for the fun part fir single images. Not to say I won't pick up LR one day.

Well, at least you've picked up some possible ideas -- several ways to apply stuff to batches. Whether it will do exactly what you want, well, hard to tell. I'll admit, I'm just a casual "for fun" user of DPP so don't have all the goods on it.

Actually I discovered something. As I was watching the DPP tutorials the instructor stated that in Preferences, General Settings, under "Viewing and saving RAW images" there is a checkbox for "View images at high speed (moire reduction off). If you select this then DPP is much faster. I thought great so I checked it.

I spent the last half hour scratching my head trying to figure out why my recipe for NR did not show on any image I was viewing at 100%. It showed the changes in the the NR Preview dialogue box
but not on the image. I converted a few images to view in PS and it did show the NR changes I made. I thought this will not be good for sharpening.

After a while I did a random search in the net and found a thread on the Fred Miranda forums and sure enough if you check that box NR will happen during conversion but the changes will not be displayed.

That thread was from 2009 and on the first page. What did we do before the internet?

Interesting! Good stuff to know!

This is what I wound up doing was after doing all my PP in DPP which includes converting to Jpeg for full sized and web sized images.

I created a quick action in PS to give a punch to images. USM - amount 8, radius 20 and threshold 0. An old trick and takes less than a minute to run 300 images through. Although DPP is a little clunky it can do most things LR can that I need. A black point global or levels adjustment is about the only thing missing.