popcorn
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Post by popcorn on Jan 23, 2021 22:33:57 GMT
My .psd images tend to be huge and I only really need to save the editing workflow on images that I may want to tweek later for display or printing.
Just flattening the images still gives very large files and I may as well save disk space by converting the others to jpg.
jpg are also universal and using maximum quality gives images that are of equal quality to the flattened psd.
The pixel size also remains the same.
Is there a method of bulk copying multiple images and converting them to maximum quality jpg by importing the psd files into the Editor and converting them all simultaneously without losing the psd files.
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Post by Sepiana on Jan 23, 2021 23:03:03 GMT
Hi popcorn, You can use the batch-processing feature in Elements (File>Process Multiple Files). It will do the conversion you want -- PSD > JPEG (Maximum Quality). Process multiple files  |
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Post by popcorn on Jan 24, 2021 14:47:06 GMT
Thank you very much Sepiana.
The forum to the rescue, once again!!!
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Post by popcorn on Jan 24, 2021 14:54:13 GMT
Hi again Sepiana,
Most of my Organizer folders refer to .psd images, is the any way that I can convert the images to jpg and keep the Organizer references intact.
Failing this, is there a bulk procedure for achieving this without deleting each individual psd reference and replacing them with the jpg.
There are literally thousands of them.
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Post by Sepiana on Jan 25, 2021 0:50:57 GMT
popcorn,
I’m not sure this answers your question but the usual advice is to place the images in a folder and, then, process them from that folder.
When you open the Process Multiple Files dialog, click on the Browse button and choose the folder you created. If applicable, turn on Include All Subfolders.
When it comes to select Destination, you can create another folder or select Same as Source.
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Post by michelb on Jan 25, 2021 9:59:41 GMT
Most of my Organizer folders refer to .psd images, is the any way that I can convert the images to jpg and keep the Organizer references intact. Failing this, is there a bulk procedure for achieving this without deleting each individual psd reference and replacing them with the jpg. There are literally thousands of them. I don't know an easy way to batch convert to another format while replacing the original. You can use the 'process multiple files' command in the editor or the 'export as new files' one in the organizer, but that will not replace the originals. I think that such a batch process could be very dangerous for many users, so not likely to be implemented. What I do myself: Very often, I choose to create a jpeg version set for .psd or .tiffs, just like for my raw files. I can select a batch of those files and I 'flatten' the version set later if I don't want to keep the big psd files. Only the jpeg is kept in the same folder with all its tags and properties.
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Post by popcorn on Jan 25, 2021 17:19:59 GMT
Hi Michel,
My problem is that my existing Organizer links are to .psd files.
I am not sure whether the Tags are attached to the Organizer link or to the file itself?
I am now trying to replace all my old psd files with jpg and was hoping to transfer all the Tags from the original psd files to the jpg files.
The more I think about it the less possible it seems. I guess I will have to leave things as they are.
I don't use version sets so am not sure that I understand your method of retaining the Tags. Do your version sets contain links to the Jpg, the psd and the Raw files?
I will have to go back to basics and try and figure out how they work.
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Post by michelb on Jan 25, 2021 17:48:12 GMT
The tags you are adding to your files in the organizer are written by default only in the catalog. When you want to have those tags also written into the files themselves, you select the files and use the menu File >> Write metadata to files (shortcug Ctrl W) Version sets are a special kind of stacks. When you edit a file and want to keep the information between the 'parent' file and the 'children' files derived from that parent, you use the option in the 'save as' command to tick the checkbox to save as a 'version set'. Version sets (the children) inherits the properties of the parent: tags, captions, notes. That relation between parent and children is stored in the catalog. One property of the version sets is that you can either display all members of the stack or you can 'collapse' all items and show a member of your choice in the browsing space. If you 'flatten' the stack or version set, only the top of stack or version set is kept, and the other members are deleted. Version sets are used a lot for raw files and their converted and edited output in photo formats like jpeg, pse, tiff... The problem for your question is indeed that the solution needs to edit the psd and save them as version sets, and I don't know to do that in batches.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 25, 2021 19:18:01 GMT
Can you select/hilite batches of PSD and execute the command to write the metadata to the PSD files before converting them to jpegs and the metadata thus carry over to the jpegs ?
I know for fact that all metadata written to the "Background" layer of the PSD is retained within the PSD and carries over to all subsequent images produced from the PSD.
For whatever it's worth, I keep all of my various types of files in separate folders; each day's images have a top/parent folder, with individual sub-folders for the various file types and stages of completion; it makes my life a lot easier.
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