How do I add the same filter to multiple files at once?

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mouse_mat1
Aug 1, 2004
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hey there, i’m having a dilema; i have several hundred images that need to be cleaned up and filters added to. All the photoshop are very similar so would need the exact same filters……except i have no idea how to do it? as far as i can see, photoshop only filters 1 image at a time. Is there a program, addon, plugin or setting that allows me to do this?

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Mike Russell
Aug 1, 2004
Lord Chicken wrote:
hey there, i’m having a dilema; i have several hundred images that need to be cleaned up and filters added to. All the photoshop are very similar so would need the exact same filters……except i have no idea how to do it? as far as i can see, photoshop only filters 1 image at a time. Is there a program, addon, plugin or setting that allows me to do this?

thank u thank u thank u

Record your operations into an action, and then either save the action as a droplet (to which you may drag and drop multiple files) or use Photoshop’s batch mode to apply the action to a folder full of files.

Do a search in PS help for "droplet" and "batch" for more info. —

Mike Russell
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mouse_mat1
Aug 5, 2004
Record your operations into an action, and then either save the action as a droplet (to which you may drag and drop multiple files) or use Photoshop’s batch mode to apply the action to a folder full of files.
Do a search in PS help for "droplet" and "batch" for more info.

thanks for the reply, i did the batching and it worked but with applying the droplet; i’m not sure where the icon to drag is. I did find a similar icon in the directory, but dragging it onto the particular images in explorer didn’t work?…..

also if theres a way to apply filters to multiple files so that the filter percentage/level of distortion keeps increasing with each file…..so image 1 would be least distorted and image 10 would be most distorted….

thanks
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Mike Russell
Aug 5, 2004
Lord Chicken wrote:
Record your operations into an action, and then either save the action as a droplet (to which you may drag and drop multiple files) or use Photoshop’s batch mode to apply the action to a folder full of files.

Do a search in PS help for "droplet" and "batch" for more info.

thanks for the reply, i did the batching and it worked but with applying the droplet; i’m not sure where the icon to drag is. I did find a similar icon in the directory, but dragging it onto the particular images in explorer didn’t work?…..

Other way around. Drag the images onto the droplet.

also if theres a way to apply filters to multiple files so that the filter percentage/level of distortion keeps increasing with each file…..so image 1 would be least distorted and image 10 would be most distorted….

Photoshop does not explicitly do this, but there are ways around it.

If you were doing many groups of files,with 10 files per group, you could create 10 droplets, each with a different distortion setting from 10 to 100 percent, and carefully drop the correct file onto each droplet. Or you could drop the same file multiple times to the same droplet.

Premiere is designed to interpolate filter parameters and produce this kind of cumulative distortion, but not all Photoshop filters are compatible with Premiere. Morph is another example of a program that will product a cumulative distortion.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net
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mouse_mat1
Aug 6, 2004
Premiere is designed to interpolate filter parameters and produce this kind of cumulative distortion, but not all Photoshop filters are compatible with Premiere. Morph is another example of a program that will product a cumulative distortion.

thanks for the earlier droplet ‘trick’, worked just fine 🙂 hehehe, feeling a bit foolish….

…..but this premier filter parametre sounds right what i’m after. I’m using premier anyway somewhere done the line to put it all into a movie sequence. (Due to monetary constraints i’m making a movie with only digital picture snaps; that’s why i have oh so many hundreds of them).
Premier is basically new to me, so if you could direct me in the right direction with the filer?

check out morph as well, thanks for that, is it adobe morph studio? or morph man? …..although they both seem pretty interesting

thanks and seeyas
mouse_mat

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