Lightroom + CS2 + Neat Image, how to batch process?

I hope I'm asking this right. I'm used to processing one photo at a time in CS2; applying either the unsharp mask or noise reduction with Neat Image. Now that I'm using Lightroom, how do I use either the sharpening capabilty of CS2 or the noise reduction of Neat Image without doing them one photo at a time?

make an action in PS for sharpening, save it as a droplet, stick the droplet in the post proccessing menu. Or stick the NI shortcut in the post proccessing module and select it. Then when you export the images in LR it will run that droplet or program.

You may be able to select NI as a external image editor as well.

Open multiple images in CS2. Do to them as you see fit - cloning, levels whatever. Then run your action. If you've coded your action correctly you can have it save and close the file, then move to the next open image.

I use a folder called "end result" that all my processing dumps into. From there I move it to its permanent place.

Tandem, feel free to pm me and I can give you some in depth pointers on how to automate your actions. CS2 and it's actions pane are a pain and to me are the place where Adobe could clean up some code and add some features. I also have some actions for sharpening you may want to try.

Bottom line is I can open multiple raw images in ACR, adjust as I like. then they fully open in CS2 and I press a pre-programmed button and all my processing is done automatically and saved to a folder with zero input from me.

As corey mentioned, if you are knee deep in Lightroom for RAW processing you can still take advantage of this by using a droplet.

Where can I go to learn more about this droplet feature and how to create them? Any good tutorials out there for this?

russel brown had one in his site, I'm sure google will help you

Thanks for the tips. We are having a big snowstorm and I was hoping for more time to research this. The temperature is hovering around 33 degrees so it doesn't look like I'm going to get any time off like I had planed.

I can shoot up to 24 youth basketball games this weekend. They have running clocks and are scheduled 1 hour apart. Using Lightroom is about the only thing that will get me through it all in a reasonable amount of time.