Remove adjustment on 1,000's of photos.

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Remove adjustment on 1,000's of photos.

Question when editing thousands of photos. What I'm struggling with is how to use the stamp tool to REMOVE an 'adjustment'. For example, I shot a wedding this weekend, took ~3000 photos. I like to give the bride 9000 photos, each photo in color, B/W, and Sepia respectively.

So I edit all the photos in color, do an export, then go back in and apply monochrome to all of them, do a second export, then go back in and apply a Sepia tone to them, and do my final export.

The question is, how can I remove the Monochrome Mixer and Sepia tone Adjustments in an automated fashion? Stamp tool? Batch tool?

Any guidance is appreciated!

Brian

G5, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jun 24, 2009 7:15 AM

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Answer 1

tidysteve

Level 4

2,975 points

Jun 24, 2009 7:35 AM in response to Brian Soligon

this might help ...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2054802&tstart=0

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Answer 2

Jun 28, 2009 5:47 PM in response to Brian Soligon

Just to help you out professionally ... no bride wants 3,000 photos, much less 9,000. As the photographer, you are expected to pick out the best photos, and also to edit only those that say to you, "wow, this image would look great as black & white or sepia or whatever." Thus, you wouldn't need to worry about removing adjustments in such huge numbers.

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Answer 3

Jun 28, 2009 9:22 PM in response to Frohmaster

Frohmaster wrote:
Just to help you out professionally ... no bride wants 3,000 photos, much less 9,000.

+1

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Answer 4

igrok-mac

Level 3

947 points

Jun 29, 2009 7:27 AM in response to Brian Soligon

One suggestion is to use versions and smart albums to really simplify this workflow. Assuming you have all 3000 in one project, select all images and assign a new unique keyword like "jane's wedding". Then

1. go ahead and do all color adjustments.
2. select all images, and choose "duplicate versions" and then do it again. You'll now have 3 versions of each image, all color adjusted.
3. create a new smart album, call it monochrome, and specify matching all conditions, set conditions to match keyword "jane's wedding" and text "Version 2".
4. create another smart album, call it sepia, and specify matching keyword and text "Version 3".

You could also create a third for "Version 1" being the color adjusted images themselves.

You can now apply monochrome to your version 2 smart album, and sepia to version 3 smart album (and you can use lift and stamp to accomplish this quickly), and you'll end up with three smart albums, each having the desired color, monochrome, or sepia characteristics. You can export each smart album separately, or click on the project and export the entire thing all at once.

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