Software For Batch Processing RAW Files

Hi folks,

Just wondering if anyone could recommend a few different software packages for batch processing RAW files apart from Lightroom 2.

I don't mean resizing and converting to jpeg, i'm hopefully looking for something I can batch process on things like tones, brightness, sharpness etc etc

Lightroom has been recommended to me but I just cannot justify the price of it right now so wondered if there are many cheaper (or free) programs that will do a good job?

Thanks in advance for your help

Ian

Have you tried DPP? I find it works well for those adjustments.

Just edit one image the way you want them all, save the recipe to clipboard or to a file, select the others and paste the recipe to them.

-js

Ditto for DPP. For a Canon photog who shoots Raw, there's no good reason not to have DPP, even if you have other Raw processing software.

To be honest guys, i'd not really looked too hard at DPP and wasn't aware of the ability to save a recipe to the clipboard so i'll give it a go.

That said, I would still have to select each individual image to complete the task (albeit, quicker with the saved recipe)

Thanks for the advice

Also happy for any other recommendations

tuttifrutti wrote in post #10512320
To be honest guys, i'd not really looked too hard at DPP and wasn't aware of the ability to save a recipe to the clipboard so i'll give it a go.

That said, I would still have to select each individual image to complete the task (albeit, quicker with the saved recipe)

No, it's much easier than that. I just did this yesterday on a group of shots - same subject, same lighting, so I wanted the same processing.

- open one image, apply adjustments as needed, save recipe to clipboard;

- select "invert selection"

- paste recipe to image, which will apply to all the selected images - that is, everything but the first.

Another approach if there are several scenes with different lighting is to group them by lighting/processing and tag them "1", "2" or "3". Then for editing you can select all images with a given tag.

EDIT: if you're doing multiple groups, as above, rather than "save to clipboard" you'd usually want "save recipe in file" and "read and paste recipe from file". Your edit files can be named to match the 1, 2 or 3 tags.

-js