How to use Lightroom to bulk process photos

There is so much time spent on photo processing that most of us have ever thought of it. Luckily we have Lightroom, this software provides a series of functions that can greatly save user's time, and can adjust batch photos at once. Even more stunning is the clever Sync Setup command that saves us dozens of hours of effort. This feature is not mysterious, it is simply from a series of photos taken under the same conditions to pick one to process, and then apply the adjustment settings to other photos. It's wonderful. When we sync, we can choose to sync all the adjustment settings, or apply only the parts.

For example, we have taken a series of raw files under the same light conditions, first of all, we need to perform white balance correction, contrast adjustment, photosensitive element stain removal and so on. At this point we can use the automatic sync function to adjust the white balance of all photos, and then decide whether we need to unify the contrast of all the photos to show the same picture feeling according to the need. In addition, we can also sync all the photosensitive element stain removal settings, eliminating the trouble of the tensor adjustment. This means that we can choose and apply the most appropriate settings according to each feature of each photograph.

Sync button to the left is the automatic sync function of the switch, the function of the two slightly similar, but automatic synchronization is to select the file before performing an edit adjustment operation. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use each of these two features. It won't take much time to master them, and once mastered can greatly improve our efficiency.

Operation Steps:

01 Import and Adjustment

Go to the Gallery module and click the Import button to select and import the 6 photos required for the tutorial. Go to the Modify Photo module, select the first picture in the lower film display pane, use the white balance straw to click on the background wall to correct the white balance, and then set the contrast to +20, shadow +10, sharpness +25.

02 Sync Settings

Turn on the tonal curve panel, change the channel Pull-down menu from RGB to blue, and slightly lower the pressure curve to adjust the picture tone. Back to the film display pane below, hold down the CTRL key to select the second and third file, click the Sync button, tick the white balance, basic tone, and tonal curve in the pop-up dialog box 3 options, and then click the Sync button.

03 Automatic Sync

In the film display pane, press and hold the CTRL key to select the 4th to 6th file, turn on the sync button to the left of the automatic sync option, the following adjustments will be applied to the selected 3 photos. In the Fundamentals panel, the color temperature is adjusted to-11, hue-21, exposure +0.12, contrast +13, high light +19, white +76, black-37, bright degree +22.

04 Remove the Photosensitive stain

Click the automatic sync switch on the left side of the sync button again to turn off the Automatic Sync feature. Use the shortcut key CTRL + D to undo the selection of 3 pieces, and then open any artwork, select the stain removal brush tool, set the mode to repair, opacity to 100%, and remove the two photoreceptor stains from the top left corner of the screen.

05 Synchronous Stain Removal

Use the shortcut key CTRL + A to select all 6 photos and click the Sync button. Click All deselect undo selection, then check the stain removal options and sync. Use the shortcut key CTRL + D to undo the selection, and then check the sync effect of the stain removal individually. The sample point of the 3rd photo overlaps slightly with the hair, so we adjust it to a more appropriate position.

06 Export Files

Use the shortcut key CTRL + A to select all 6 photos to perform the file > Export command. In the Pop-up Export Settings dialog box, we can set the file format, size and other parameters, and the file for batch renaming. Here, we set the image format to JPEG, keep the other options unchanged, and click the Export button.

TIPS:

In the gallery module and the Modify photo module, we can use CTRL + A and ctrl+d two shortcuts to improve our productivity, the former can select all the photos, the latter to undo all the choices. Ctrl-click to select multiple photos, hold down SHIFT and click two photos to select all the photos in the middle.

Parameter adjustment: To understand the principle of synchronous command, first of all need to understand the lightroom to adjust the principle of the photo. Lightroom uses a parametric approach to adjust the photo, in other words, all of the adjustments we make do not directly change the pixels that make up the image, but are stored with the photo in the way that the data is manipulated. This type of adjustment was originally designed to tailor the raw files of different manufacturers in a uniform manner, and then evolved into one of the most convenient ways of photo processing. Because all parameters are saved as separate files, Lightroom can easily replicate them to other files.