September 8, 2009 by admin
Today we’ll look at yet another of the many great capabilities of Adobe Bridge, which I’ve dubbed the “Swiss Army Knife of the Creative Suite.”
In the user forums at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, we get many questions from users who are trying to batch process multiple images. Typically, the object is to convert a bunch of images – from several files to several hundred files. The conversions may be oriented to a specific file type, such as TIFF or JPG, or to a specific size, such as a low res output for proofs, email or web thumbnails, or to perform a specific action such as sharpening or adding a watermark.
The first place people tend to look when confronted with these sorts of tasks is Photoshop’s Batch processing capability. While the Batch command will allow you to perform all these activities, there is an easier way already built into Photoshop – and it is available from Bridge. It is a script, called the Image Processor.
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August 12, 2009 by admin
Well, here we go again! Another “Windows Patch Tuesday” has come and gone (Microsoft sends its Windows updates on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, if you haven’t noticed), and in this month’s batch we have a few interesting ones!
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August 11, 2009 by admin
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at a technique for creating a metadata preset to hold your copyright information. Metadata presets are a great way to rubber stamp your images with all the important information you want, including your name, your copyright information, website, contact information, etc. Creating the preset is a one time effort, but in the end you still have to apply it to each and every image, by hand, one at a time.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could automate some of this? I’m glad you asked! Photoshop has some very nice features that will allow us to completely automate this process – you’ll be amazed! Every image you open in Photoshop will automatically have your copyright data embedded, without you having to remember to do it!
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August 8, 2009 by admin
Over the next few days, we’re going to embark on a little project, one in which we take steps to protect our art. If you’re not adding copyright information to your images, you leave yourself wide open to having your intellectual property drained away! You need to think seriously about a plan to label, identify and register your images, so that the benefits of your hard work are coming to you. For more ideas and information on ways to look out for yourself, including instructions for registering your images with the US Copyright Office, visit our friends at Defend Your Art.
Today, we will take the first steps, in identifying ways to add copyright information to your images. If you aren’t already doing this, read on! If you are, I encourage you to read on anyway, as we will be looking at ways to speed up your workflow and automate things, so you can work harder on your image and not so hard on the maintenance!
When you open an image in Photoshop, and that image contains a copyright notice, Photoshop will recognize this and add a small © symbol to the title bar of the image, like so:
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Today we’ll look at yet another of the many great capabilities of Adobe Bridge, which I’ve dubbed the “Swiss Army Knife of the Creative Suite.”
