Batch processing

Steps for Batch Processing!!!!

Open up Photoshop and go through File>Open, select one of the images and click Open

Give a name to your Action and click Record to start, I named my Action Resize


From now on, Photoshop will be recording every command you make, so make sure you follow the following steps correctly. Select the image and go through Image>Image Size, and just change the width 3 or 4” and the height will fall in proportion. Make sure the image is 300dpi.


Save your image into a new folder. Close the image, go back to your Actions Panel and click on the Stop button. This has stopped the recording so that the action has been recorded until you closed your image in previous step.


Now that all of the actions are recorded all you have to do is simply Automate the action on a batch of images saved in a specific folder. Go through File>Automate>Batch . The Batch menu allows you to play a previously saved Action on multiple similar files. The Source section is where you select your desired source folder and the Destination section indicates where will the output images be located at. Finally, the File Naming section allows selection of various ways to save your output files, in the screenshot below the output images will have their original file name along with their original extension

HOCKNEY

Hockney Interior/Exterior/Portrait



Using the visual language that David Hockney is famous for make three final images. Digital imagery is fast and cheap to produce, take as many at least 25 shots of each scene (interior, exterior, and portrait). We will spend the next two classes opening, sizing, and setting up the collage in Photoshop and prepping it to print. Set your camera to Large JPeg.

Two Scenes Due 8/30/10
Third Scene Due 9/1

you will...

8/23 Monday

you will open Photoshop and go to Bridge
you will upload your Night Photographs
you will start to edit them

you will have fun with this...

Supplies

Supplies


Digital SLR camera OR Digital Camera that can shoot in RAW and JPEG
With fully manual functions
Memory card
USB Cable OR Card Reader to upload images

CDs
Flash Drive
Portable hard drive for backing up files


An old damaged photo to retouch for RETOUCH assignment
Some music CD or mp3 for slide show

Textbook: The Creative Digital Darkroom

1st Assignment

Assignment 1
Painting with Light: Night Photography:
With inspiration from Fourth of July Special: Paint Your Photos with Sparklers! See link
Shoot 100 images. Large JPEG is OK. You will edit to your best 4 images.

For the Assignment
DSLR camera or point-and-shoot camera
Flashlight
Tripod
Friends or Objects (1 or more)
Off-camera flash (optional)


Create beautiful and provocative long exposures using the B setting. Use an alternative light source to add information to your exposure. This is an experimental assignment so take your time. Making mistakes is the best way to learn. Do not delete any of your images. Recognition will be given for original ideas.

• Drawing, outlining, highlighting
• Play with your settings from F-stop to ISO.
• Try glow sticks or sparklers.
• Writing letters in the air will result in backwards words, but this can be fixed by simply flipping the image horizontally. Having your subjects wear black so they disappear into the scene.
Suggestion from photojojo.com

“If you are planning to use flash, you’ll want to keep your shutter speed shorter at about 8 seconds. If you are using the built-in flash on your camera, set it to “rear flash.” This means your flash will pop at the end of the exposure instead of the beginning.
Let your friend know to be ready at the end of 8 seconds, so that they can hit their pose!
If you are using an off-camera flash you won’t need to set “rear flash” because you’ll be manually firing it. Again, give your friend a heads up when you do!”

Images Shot by: 8/25/10