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Tip # 61
(Editing) BATCH OPERATIONS
Click here to show the Batch Adjustments Screen.
Let's say you want to take a bunch of photos and rotate them all 22 degrees to the right. This could take some time if you do it manually. Also, let's say that you want to auto fix the brightness and contrast of a bunch of images, again this could take some time manually. And more over, if you wanted to do BOTH adjustments to a series of photos, this would take even longer :(
SOLUTION - USE BATCH OPERATIONS:
Photo Jockey has the ability to take all checkmarked files and to perform up to 6 operations on them automatically.
Color Adjustments
Rotation Adjustments
Sharpness / Smoothness Adjustments
Resizing Adjustments
Text Box & Image Overlaying
3D Perspective / Shear / Fish-Eye / Special Effect Transformations
On the Quick Tools panel you will find lots of buttons. In fact there are 5 buttons next to each other that do the Color, Rotation, Sharpness, Smoothness, Resizing and Overlaying adjustments manually for one photo. Then there is a button that has an icon that looks like (a green rotate, yellow sun, a sharpness line, a magnifying glass) squeezed onto a single button. This is the BATCH button.
OTHER BATCH OPERATIONS:
NOTE: You can also do BATCH Web Page Galleries as well. But not from this function, you have to do it from the Web Page Gallery function.
NOTE: You can also do BATCH DataBase Updates as well. But not from this function, you have to do it from the Batch Updates To Database Function.
Click on the BATCH button and you can select up to 6 adjustments to perform on all of your checked files.
STEP 1: You can choose the ORDER in which the operations are performed!
NOTE: If all you want to do is to convert all the checked images to (.bmp, .jpg, .gif) images, then check the "Only Image Format Conversion" checkbox.
STEP 2: You can select a format to save the image in. For example: *.JPG, or *.BMP, or *.GIF. Typically you would pick JPG. You can also select to "Keep EXIF Camera Info". This allows any Extra Camera Information to be saved into the new images. You can also pick the Quality of the JPG files produced. Typically "High Quality JPG (92)" is the best choice for quality and disk space usage. If you will be editing the resulting images, you may want to pick "Highest Quality JPG (97)". Of course, if you want the resulting images to take up as little disk space as possible, then pick a lower quality number. If you pick GIF, you can select from 4 different quality setting. If you select JPG, you can also pick "Custom Quality" and then enter a custom quality factor. You can also pick PNG.
NOTE: Use these guidelines for determining the graphic format to save to:
BMP: No loss in quality, but takes the most disk space.
PNG: No loss in quality, but files are larger than JPG but smaller than BMP. Exception: Line-Art images are saved SMALLER than JPG.
JPG: Loss in quality is controlled by quality setting: Great for photos, very good for line art and can save lots of disk space.
GIF: Loses some quality, but GREAT for line art (image with lots of solid colors (not photos)), medium disk space
STEP 3: You can also select where the resulting adjusted images will be saved. If you pick "Source Folder", then the resulting images are stored in the SAME folder as the source images. If you pick "Browse For Folder", then you can select where the resulting images are stored.
STEP 4: All files created by the batch process APPENDS "_Adjusted" to the original filenames. So, your source files don't get overwritten if you chose the source folder destination. You can choose a different appendage if you like by typing the appendage name you want.
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NOTE: The resulting images are saved with the SAME filename as the original PLUS it appends "_Adjusted"(see step 4) to it. So, if you had a file called "IMG_0096.JPG", then the resulting adjusted image would be named "IMG_0096.JPG_Adjusted.JPG". That way we don't overwrite your original files!!!
TIP: If you don't want the "_Adjusted" appended to the filename, you can always rename the adjusted files to remove the "_Adjusted". This can be done in one step with the tagged rename feature.
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