Digital BW, The Print

Gavin,

Thanks, I'll give this a try when I have some time.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Gavin Phillips 
<photoeffect@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I just joined the group. I teach Photoshop for a
> living and noticed Scott's question about batch
> converting to BW from RAW.
> 
> There are two ways that I know of to convert dozens or
> 100's or images from RAW to BW.
> 
> Open Bridge and navigate to your folder of raw images.
> Shift select the images you want to convert to BW.
> 
> From Bridge menu bar go to,
> 
> 'tools'
> 
> 'photoshop'
> 
> 'image procesor'
> 
> the image processor dialogue box pops up.
> 
> click on 
> 
> 'open first image to apply settings'
> 
> Chose a folder to save the converted images into.
> Usually an empty 'out' folder on your desktop.
> 
> Fill out the rest of the boxes, size of jpg, if you
> want tiff and or psd etc.
> 
> Press 'run.'
> 
> A folder will open, you have to navigate to the folder
> to open the first Raw image to apply settings.
> 
> 
> When you double click the RAW file, it will open in
> Camera Raw.
> 
> In Camera Raw pull the saturation slider all the way
> left. Customize the tones with 'curves' and / or
> 'shadows.'
> 
> Once you are happy with the conversion, click 
> 'open' bottom right.
> 
> 
> PS will run through all the images selected and
> convert using your first pics settings. All the images
> will be in a folder inside your 'out' folder on your
> desktop or wherever you saved it.
> 
> You can also run a Photoshop 'action' from the image
> processor box and convert to BW that way.
> 
> Thanks. Gavin.
> 
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