CS4: Applying settings to unopened image files

Is it possible to apply settings to image files without first opening all the image files?

You do know that you can open multiple raw images in Camera Raw, select All and Synchronize them, don't you?
In Bridge you can also select multiple files, then Edit > Develop Settings > Paste Settings.
Please continue this thread in the ACR and/or Bridge forum.
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There are two checker board icons top right that give you the option to set for cache. By default it is set to 'Always HQ' to have both good thumbs and a good preview when pointing to a file.
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This setting also creates a bit larger cache files in the 1024 folder depending on the size of your monitor (logical).
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1. Select the box that has the new Gradient, then Edit > Copy (or Ctrl/Command + C)
Then select the remaining two boxes that need the new gradient style, then Edit > Paste Attributes
This process with carry over (copy/paste attributes) the first box to the others.
Or
2. Select the box that has the new Gradient changes, then in the Property Inspector (PI), to the far right, tick the small icon under to create a New (Object) Style. Once created, open the Window > Styles Panel. Select the two remaining boxes on the canvas then click the New Style icon in the Styles Panel to apply.
1. is memory resident/temporary and will be lost when you later utilize the Copy command. But 2 has more 'staying' power and you can reuse it, go back to it, save it to disk, and tweak it further to create new ones at any time.
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Noel Carboni wrote:
Ed, I doubt very much that the authors of a professional image processing package would even begin to consider leaving anything up to chance.
You do know that they provide the free DNG converter, so that anyone with a new camera CAN convert the very latest camera files to a format all the older Photoshops understand, right? It's not like they're leaving people out in the cold.
People often seem to think it's okay to pay thousands for a new camera, but their old software should just be updated by the manufacturer for free... And in this case it actually is, when you consider the DNG converter. If you think about it, it's a brilliant strategy by Adobe.
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No I'm not looking for any free upgrades to PS. I don't want Adobe to include whatever new features they may have in a newer version of PS and ACR ported back to the older version. But to UPDATE ACR to see newer cameras, say for at least one version, IE CS3's ACR never gets updates after CS5 comes out but they update CS4 ACR until CS6 comes out. You still don't get the newest feature set in the newer version. You just get newer camera models.
I play and I pay. I have had PS 6 CS2/3/4 and now 5. I could of just upgraded Lightroom and stayed with CS3 or 4 but I don't paticularly care for Lightroom and I rarely used the 2 versions I've had. Just like you don't use Bridge.
Oh and that other problem I was having with CS5 closing with a RUNTIME ERROR when you and I first butted heads. Funny but on the exact same hardware and the exact same OS, XP, on the exact same install of the OS. After a complete uninstall of PS and good cleaning of the registry and a reinstall I don't get those errors. So to me it was PS that was causing it.
Something in the lines of the *x*x*x MVM*x*x.xxx files being created on some random drive by PS and representatives of Adobe stating the it wasn't PS creating those files. It was some 3rd party plugin. When in fact it was PS that created them. I get them in the ROOT of my D drive. My D drive is where I have PS installed but is not used for image files or the PS scratch disk or system Temp.

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