Batch Folders Help

Hi all,

I really could use some help with this. For reference I have lightroom and CS2.

I do motorsports events and post all our photos on the webpage. My steps to do so, go like so:

1 - Get rid of crap photos
2 - Sort all photos by driver/rider # into individual folders
3 - Batch our watermark onto and resize all photos to 500x333px, also do a rename number sequence that is later used in a web XML file (1 to 100 lets say)
4 - batch the 500x333px photos into thumbnails 120x80px
5 - upload, etc.

My problem is steps 3 and 4. Because we first sort by # into folders I'm stuck having to select each rider/driver folder individually to batch. Further I need to keep the sequential numbering of each folder to avoid another possible time consuming XML edit. This takes a huge amount of time.

What I would like to do most is batch all riders/drivers at the same time but keep all photos in their respective folders. Is this possible with these programs or any other programs on the market. Or do you have any ideas to help me speed up this process? It's killing my brain.

Any help would be beyond appreciated.

Why do you need them in separate folders? Just give each image a unique ID and group them together with sequential filenames and it should be fine.

For this most recent 3-day event we have 10,000+ photos and close to 180 participants. We sort by driver/rider number so participants can find all their photos in one place, otherwise it would be very chaotic.

If we batched before we sorted by individual folders we would have to search through all our photos individually to fulfill a corresponding order, which would end up costing us more time at a later time and may open us up to errors in orders.

Not sure if that makes sense or not. It's such a clunky system it's even hard to explain.

I think you should look into photoshop scripting. I don't know anything about it myself. Also check out the "watermark factory" software to see if it does what you want - it's cheap enough.

How many of those 10,000 photos do you sell?