batch colorspace changing question

Andy

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anonymous wrote:

Hi Andy, I want to use smugmug as part of my print delivery mechanism for many of my clients. The problem is the thousands of shots I want to upload to smugmug are in jpeg adobe 98. They say they won't accept that, and I need to convert them before uploading them. Any suggestions on a conversion workflow? I have PSE2 and PSCS 8.0 on a Mac Powerbook 10.3.7. Thanks

ok so here's my answer, and thanks to shay for helping me.

1) open an image in ps cs2.
2) in your actions palette, click the tiny triangle and select "new action"
3) name your action in the popup, and click "record"
4) now choose edit>convert to profile>and choose sRGB IEC61966-2.1
5) click OK and then do file>save (if you don't want to overwrite, do "save as"
6) Close the image
7) stop recording your action

now, do a test. make a folder of 10 files that are in aRGB. in ps cs2:

1) choose file>automate>batch
2) tick the box that says 'override action "open" commands
3) in the "play" box, choose the action you created
4) click OK

Shay Stephens

One last detail

andy wrote:

1) open an image in ps cs2.
2) in your actions palette, click the tiny triangle and select "new action"
3) name your action in the popup, and click "record"
4) now choose edit>convert to profile>and choose sRGB IEC61966-2.1
5) click OK and then do file>save (if you don't want to overwrite, do "save as"
5.5) Close the image
6) stop recording your action

If you don't record the close command, you will wind up with a screen full of images ;-)

jfriend

Even easier...

andy wrote:

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ok so here's my answer, and thanks to shay for helping me.

1) open an image in ps cs2.
2) in your actions palette, click the tiny triangle and select "new action"
3) name your action in the popup, and click "record"
4) now choose edit>convert to profile>and choose sRGB IEC61966-2.1
5) click OK and then do file>save (if you don't want to overwrite, do "save as"
6) stop recording your action

now, do a test. make a folder of 10 files that are in aRGB. in ps cs2:

1) choose file>automate>batch
2) tick the box that says 'override action "open" commands
3) in the "play" box, choose the action you created
4) click OK

If you have CS2, it's even easier than this - no need to record an action. Just open the Image Processor (File/Scripts/Image Processor) and select the source directory you want, the destination directory, the JPEG type and

[X] convert profile to sRGB

and hit Go.

Unfortunatly, I think the poster says they have PSE2 (Elements 2). If that's the case, I don't think there's any way to batch convert in PSE2. Batch processing, actions and color management are some of the distinguishing features between Elements X and CSX.

Andy

Shay Stephens wrote:

If you don't record the close command, you will wind up with a screen full of images ;-)

woudl you edit my post as needed? thx

Shay Stephens

Done and done

andy wrote:

woudl you edit my post as needed? thx

StevenV

btw when you save, Chris has told me that jpeg level 9 or 10 is plenty (no need to go to 11 or 12, which PS lets you do).

oh, and if you do have PS to do it in batch, there's a "include subfolders" button that does wonders - my little laptop ripped through 800 images across 17 nested directories in just about an hour.

it just won't start in a top-level directory that has no pictures so move one image to make it go (am I making sense?)

mercphoto

Shay Stephens wrote:

If you don't record the close command, you will wind up with a screen full of images ;-)

Actually, with File Browser in CS, depending on how you run the action in batch mode you do not need the file close part of the action (I do this all the time).

My biggest gripe with CS and File Browser and batching actions is how there are too many options when you start the batch, and how choosing the wrong options can muck things up when running the batch. Maybe CS2 is better.