Batch processing pictures in iPhoto with Photoshop CS4

Question

Hello, I am trying to batch process my pictures with photoshop. The only problem is that I can't get a source destination for my pictures. I know how to find them on the hard drive in the iPhoto library but when I try to get to the folder with photoshop it is greyed out. I also have tried selecting the photos though 'media' on the left side of the finder. I can open them but can't use that as the source folder for batch processing. Can someone help me out here? I am getting pretty irritated with iphoto, I am sure there must be some way to do this.
thanks
Kris

Answer 1

Do you have PS set up as the editor of choice in iPhoto like this:
Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
However, this method will only let you open 4 photos at a time. You can have more than for open but will have to go back to iPhoto select 4 more and open them.
Otherwise you'll need to export the photos out of iPhoto to a folder and do the batch processing there.