Automatic exposure correction?

is there an action in photoshop that can correct a photograph, whether it be under or over exposed? I usually do around 300 images at a time and a lot of the exposures aren't that great (I know, that should be #1 priority), but for now I was just wondering if there was a way to automate fixing them that I can integrate into my watermarking action in photoshop.

Auto levels - control shift L on a PC. It's not perfect but might be ok for proofs.

i tried auto levels, it fixes some but not others. I guess I may be stuck fixing each one individually until I can master this exposure thing

It's very risky allowing auto anything without supervision.

Best I could recommend is set up a batch workflow with an action that opens Levels and allows you to adjust the midtone slider on each one, then saves and closes each pic automatically.

That way, you can automate all the simple stuff, and it would at least partially speed up your workflow.

that sounds like a great idea, how do you go about stopping an action as it goes through?

In your actions palette, down the left hand side, there's two columns. The first one is filled with little black ticks. The second column is where you click beside the necessary step to turn on the user-interaction icon.

So, record your whole action, then go to your actions palette and turn on that little icon beside the Levels step.

... hope that makes sense.

i think it does. i will try it out later today

thanks again

wow! learned a new lesson again.

Been working on some pics lately and don't have any idea how could I change the Levels using the CS Actions. What I did was create 2 actions, run the 1st one, apply the changes on Levels and then run the 2nd action.

Thanks!