Some time ago I wrote a post on batch resizing images in Photoshop and another on resizing in Lightroom.

One of our readers wrote to me recently explaining that he is using Photoshop Elements and that the resize feature in Photoshop does not work in Photoshop Elements. He is correct, but there is a way of batch resizing in Photoshop Elements and here’s how to do it.

Step 1

In Photoshop Elements, choose File > Process Multiple Files. This opens the Process Multiple Files dialog.

A Guest Post by Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions:Your shortcut to better photographs.

As a photographer you shoot in Raw or Jpeg, or sometimes both. Then you edit. You may start in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, but many photographers will end up in Photoshop doing more detailed editing of your photographs.  In time, you come up with the “perfect” edit. Now it is time to save.

What do you do? Do you save as a PSD, Tiff, Jpeg, Gif, Png or something else?

This article is not meant to address how you save Raw files to formats like DNG (Digital Negatives). It is meant to focus on how you save to share photos on the web and for print.

Here are a few of the most common formats and why you may or may not want to use them:

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A Guest Post by Josh Brown from InFashionMedia.

Ok, so you own a digital camera and you’ve taken more shots then you can count, and you’ve filled up more space on your hard drive than you have free.

You say you’re going to organize your files but you never quite get around to it, and you sure as hell never print out any images to put in an album or a frame.

The problem: your beautiful, thought-provoking work sits on your computer and never sees the light of day. It never gets admired, wins awards, brings joy or breaks hearts. And this really is a problem!

The solution: take advantage of the amazing sites/resources that the latest version of the web has to offer and enter the world of photography 2.0.

What can you do in photography 2.0?

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No matter how big your studio is, chances are it’s not big enough. I shoot on a piece of white vinyl 5 metres wide. I’ve talked about the photographing side of what I do already and now I’ll share a couple techniques I use for editing – and sometimes rescuing – studio photography done the white seamless way.

1. Open your raw image in LR and create a virtual copy.

2. On the first image, I play with the sliders until I’m happy with exposure, blacks, clarity (oooh how I love that little slider), etc. For this image, I want the final result to be very contrasty, sharp, maybe a bit comic book superhero-y. So that’s where the second virtual copy comes in. After editing the first so it’s still realistic, I go to the second and click ‘previous’ to copy the same treatments of the first image to the second.

3. After making the second image like the first with ‘previous’ button, I then do some more drastic things. I’m not worrying about what it does to his face – I just want the chair and the krinkles in his jeans to stand out. Part of what I did was increase the clarity. And this is what I end up with:

Now, before the Mac crowd starts getting hot under the collar that this is another GIMP post excluding them, I can explain.  There’s a very good reason you don’t need these instructions on installing UFRaw for GIMP; because it’s already included with the Mac build of GIMP.  So not only do you have reason to not complain, you may gloat a little if that is your style.  You may still find these instructions helpful.

And for Linux folks, instructions for installing are as vast as there are flavors of Linux.  All of the appropriate packages can be found on UFRaw’s download page.

This fine tool does a great job of converting a few of the basic RAW formats (Canon, Nikon and a few others) into your choice of outputs.  The tool has quite a few controls for adjusting the image even before opening the converted file in GIMP and it can, indeed, be used as a stand alone program if desired.  In this post I will explain just the basics of opening a photo with some simple changes.  The tool has a LOT of controls beyond the basics, best left for another post.

For the Windows people to get started, you’ll need to download UFRaw from Sourceforge, located here.  I’m also assuming you have a copy of GIMP already loaded.  If not, it’s here.

Starting Up UFRaw

UFRaw can be found in the GIMP program group in Programs.  It can also be invoked by attempting to open a RAW file from within GIMP.  If you are starting directly with UFRaw, upon clicking the icon the first screen you will notice is a file selection window.  You can use the standard Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple images.  After selecting the right image, click Open.