Loading a folder of RAWs and applying a script

[tonygamble]

What methodology would you apply if I want to work through a folder of RAW files using the same script?

I assume I use Save Script without Image Names. I believe I have created one correctly but when I call it up if complains One missing file in script. If I click OK it opens a window on the folder where my RAWs are stored.

I could select one but I am worried that going through a folder of, say, 100 images I may miss one.

Is there a way I can select All and pull them all into PWP so I can work through them one by one? I would also like to be able to go back to an image I processed before and reprocess differently. Can I do this without having to go back to the Windows folder?

I am aware of Batch but am not sure this is the right use of it. I have tried it and it does not allow me to make frame by frame adjustments - or does it?

[jsachs]

There are several ways to proceed.

1) The method you describe with Save Script without Image Names.

2) Process all image identically using Batch -- you can convert your current script from 1) by double clicking on the File Open and adding all the files to the file list. At the end of the processing branch, add a Batch/Export transformation and make sure you set the File Export options to include a script file. Then you go back to the File Open transformation, double click it, and click the Run button and all the images will be processed the same way and exported to a folder you specify in the Export transformation. When this is done, you can re-process any images that need it by opening their script files.

3) Process images variably using Batch. This is the same as 2) except you set breakpoints on the transformations you may want to set differently for different images. Then when you run the batch process, PWP will pause at the transformation(s) with breakpoints so you can edit the settings. Again, once the batch process completes, you can still re-process any of the exported images as long as you exported them with script files.

[tonygamble]

Thanks Jonathan,

Any suggestions as to how I cure this?

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It happens each time I open my saved Script.

I'll look at those three suggestions tomorrow.

Tony

[jsachs]

This is simply a warning that one or more of the files referenced by the script file does not exist. In this case it happens because you saved without image names. Just click OK to dismiss the warning -- then it will ask you to specify a file to open. Once you specify a file, it opens it and then proceeds to process the rest of the transformations in the script.

I see that this message is confusing, so for the next release I am suppressing the warning if the script was saved without image names.

[tomczak]

A somewhat related question on batch-adaptive transformations. Which transformations are capable of auto adjusting in batch depending on the image being processed? I know about the Levels and Color and Color Balance. Autorange is probably another one.

In batch, if I suspect that a setting could make the transformation adapt to the image being processed, I need to experiment first to remind myself if it really does, but I never compiled a list of transformations and their settings that would vary the processing parameters as the batch progresses

[jsachs]

I think just Autorange, Color Balance (auto balance option), and Levels and Color (autorange and auto balance settings).

[tonygamble]

Thanks friends.

Tony

[tonygamble]

Nearly there!

I seem to have an error in my Export transformation. I get the error message.

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The first image in my batch created a script but the second one produced no script.

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This is my Transformation.

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Is the fact that there are two different files here a clue?
See next post.

[tonygamble]

Is this a clue?

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