Have you ever wished that Photoshop could be as quick and easy as Lightroom at simply applying the same edit to many photos? Have you ever loved Photoshop but hated going from photo to photo applying the same action one at a time? Well wish no further because the answer is right under your nose – batch editing!

With the batch edit command in Photoshop, you can play the same action on a whole batch of opened images or even an entire folder without even needing to open the images. Now, personally I wouldn’t recommend blindly applying and saving actions to an entire folder of unopened files unless it’s something minor like a little sharpening.

So first, I open a few images I’d like to edit. I don’t usually do more than 10 at a time because I know that’s all my computer can …

In a recent dPS reader poll we asked our community about the post production software that they use most. The results are in (with over 22,000 responses) and here’s the state of play in the post production world of our readers.

Lightroom is way out in front with Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements also maintaining Adobes dominance of the market. Picasa, Aperture, The Gimp, iPhoto and Paintshop Pro jostle for position behind Adobe’s powerhouses.

Adobe is dominating the results with 67% of the market – significantly higher than the next highest manufacturer (Apple with 12% share).

Update: I’ve just taken a look at the results from last time (in May 2009) we ran this survey and there has been an interesting shift.

Last time 18% of readers were using Lightroom most

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Pin ItThe following quick tutorial is by Vincent Montalbano – one of our wonderful forum members – originally posted in our forum.

I just learned this and thought I’d share this simple procedure. This will also work on color photos, however, I really like what it does for black and whites. Here you go:

1. use whatever process you prefer to convert your image to B/W (but do so while maintaining the color channels)
2. open up the channels palette (that’s one of the tabs you’ll see on the top of your History palette)
3. hold the control key (on PC’s, Mac may be Alt key??) and click on the RGB selection in the Channels palette. You will see the marching ants show up in your image
4. make a new layer (Ctrl J) and click on Overlay (Softlight will also work with a

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Some time ago I wrote a blog post called “Turn Ho-Hum Color into WOW! with Photoshop” which involved using the LAB color space to adjust an image. In the interests of those of you who use Gimp, this blog post is a revisit on the topic of dragging color out of lackluster images this time using Gimp.

One of the hidden secrets of Gimp is that it supports the LAB color space so you can get access to the L, a and b channels in an image. This adjustment therefore produces similar results to those you can achieve with my earlier post using Photoshop it’s just that the process in Gimp is a little different.

Start out with an image that could use a color boost. This image of a statue over a door in …

Over the last week I’ve had the opportunity to try out the latest Lightroom Preset collection from MCP Actions. It’s a collection of over 200 actions/presets.

It’s called ‘the MCP Quick Clicks Collection‘ and its on on special until the end of the month (introductory price ends on October 31).

Available either for RAW or JPEG photographers – this collection of presets is particularly useful for portrait photographers (which is what I major on).

The cool thing about this collection is that Jodi has arranged it all into 5 folders which helps you find them (and you can minimise each section when you’re not using it).

The sections are:

• Building Blocks fine-tune photos’ exposure and color settings, providing a flawless foundation for layering on additional looks.
• Quick Clicks Color presets give one-click access to gorgeous color-enhancing results.
• Quick Clicks Black &

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