Photoshop Actions

You're Editing Photos One at a Time Like a Chump — Here's How Batch Processing Fixed That
Workflow & Productivity

You're Editing Photos One at a Time Like a Chump — Here's How Batch Processing Fixed That

Last month I had a client send me 340 product photos that all needed the same treatment: resize to 1200x1200px, sharpen, adjust levels, export as JPEG at 85% quality. Simple enough, right? Except I sat down at my usual corner table at Epoch Coffee, opened the first image, and immediately had the thought that I really didn’t want to do this 339 more times. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that if something feels tedious before you’ve even started, there’s almost certainly a better way.

You're Editing Photos One at a Time Like a Caveman — Here's How Batch Processing Fixes That
Workflow & Productivity

You're Editing Photos One at a Time Like a Caveman — Here's How Batch Processing Fixes That

Last month I took on a product photography job that seemed simple enough: retouch 340 product images for an e-commerce client. Same edits on every single one. Resize to 2000x2000px, sharpen, adjust white balance, export as sRGB JPEG at 85% quality. Clean, repetitive, boring work. My first instinct was to just… start doing them. One by one. I got through about 40 images in two hours before I wanted to throw my laptop into a lake.