LR as UI - Photoshop as Batch Machine

I find quite some complaints about the conception of LR and the lack of good sharpening and noise reduction. While I basically agree to these comments I got very good results in using PS as a batch machine for the 'Export' of the LR pictures.
Despite Thomas Knolls comments that ACR 3.7 does not recognize dust spots I was happy to realize that ACR 3.7 in fact renders a DNG file perfectly well in PS including red eye and dust spots. This opens PS for all kind of post processing.
My workflow: I use LR for all steps of my workflow until the files (DNG in my case) are well organized and adjusted on my disk. Instead of using the Export Module I use the "Image Processor" script of PS to enable the Power of PS-Plugins like Photo Kit Sharpener.
With this approach I get the best of both worlds

No, the trick is to just enable it to "automatically write changes into XMP" in the preferences. If you then open your file in photoshop, ACR 3.7 (PS CS2) or ACR 4.0 (in CS3 beta) is able to process all changes you made with LR.
Even better is to directly start the script "image_processor.jsx" which you will find in the script folder ("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Scripts on my machine)"
The point is that with the new Camera Raw Plugin PS and LR speak the same labguage. You only need LR to write the changes to XMP
manually via menu metadata->XMP->Export XMP to File
or automatically via preferences as described above

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If prefs are the same as Settings on a MAC, OK, it would have been more
clear to me if you had said Settings since I didn't see anything related to
prefs. On a PC, I know what you mean, On a MAC, wasn't sure.
In a message dated 4/9/2015 9:13:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
reloaded Photoshop CS5 (New Machine) and now it won't open, geta message
"Could not open scratch file because disk is not available", so pS won't go
any farther.
created by c.pfaffenbichler
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Initiating Photoshop CS4 batch from Bridge sometimes ignores RAW xmp settings

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What happens is I try to launch a batch process for RAW photos taken with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II (develop settings already set in xmp files using Adobe Camera RAW from Bridge). The actions in the batch process execute correctly, but the resulting files appear to have completely ignored my ACR develop settings. This happens if I launch the batch process in either version of Photoshop CS4 (64 or 32 bit).
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This happens a lot using both my work PC (XP 64) and home PC (Vista 64), but not always...and I have not been able to track down exactly how to fix this.
What happens is I try to launch a batch process for RAW photos taken with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II (develop settings already set in xmp files using Adobe Camera RAW from Bridge). The actions in the batch process execute correctly, but the resulting files appear to have completely ignored my ACR develop settings. This happens if I launch the batch process in either version of Photoshop CS4 (64 or 32 bit).
My only solution is to carefully watch Photoshop as files get loaded by the batch process and abort the batch if one opens without the correct develop settings (not always easy to discern...sometimes I have to wait for the process to save the file so I can toggle back and forth between the images in Bridge). I then restart Bridge and/or Photoshop until I can start a batch process that opens the image correctly. Once a single file has opened with the correct settings, subsequent files open as expected...so the rest of the batch process will complete.
Has anyone else seen this phenomenon? This is really annoying as it never happened to me in CS or CS2.

Photoshop CS3 Batch fails to rename - saves as original name for every file?

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Open (File from folder on desktop - original is JPG)
Image Size (resize image to 1024xXXX)
Save (Save as PNG)
Close
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PNG 1024xXXX (action created above)
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Starting serial#: 1
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http://www.mpecsinc.ca/images/08-02-20PhotoshopBatch.jpg
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Philip

Boy, do I feel like an idiot . . . I was trying to run this script from Bridge (batch action-select images from Bridge) . . . If I just run the batch action in Photoshop CS3 only. . . everything works great . . .
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Photoshop CS5 - Batch actions for PDF multipage files

Good morning.
One of my customer bring me a pdf files composed by 147 pages.
Before I can print the whole file I had to remove a piece of the Header (common in every page at the same location) and a piece of the bottom left footer.
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Hi,
1. Why dont u try it in pdf itself?
U can just crop the required area in pdf file using crop tool so it can be applied for all the pages at a time.
2. If u trying to remove particular area on a pdf u can place a white box on that area using pitstop tool it can be saved as actionlist like batch processing and applied for any number of pages and files.
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Photoshop Automation/Batch

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Jennifer:
SOURCE
I was experimenting with CS3 and this seemed to work (opened files into PS w/o dialogs or file name issues):
Do not record File > Open cmd in the action. Batch cmd will take care of that.
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DESTINATION (FYI)
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Does this help?

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We are experiencing that Photoshop CC cannot produce 2 equal batch results ! its skips images at random and even worse skips parts of the batch commands! This makes PSD CC absolute useless in a professional environment, and that Adobe have not fixed this huge bug in the last 5 updates they have done in less than a month is an outrage.
We have tested with 6 different workstations and various scripts and the results are totally erratic.
Adobe please step up and fix the core funtionalities before adding loads of new funky features.
Kind regards,
From a 20 year Photoshop veteran that has gone back to his trusted Phopshop CS6

1. I would like to apply a basic image adjustments 10 mixed orientated images opened in PS CC.
2. I create a new Action set and record my first image actions.
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Note: A new action is automatically created called "Set current adjustment layer"
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4b 1 image later i receive the same area. I clicked Continue.
4c 1 image later i receive again the same area. I clicked Continue.
4d 1 image later i receive again the same area. I clicked Continue.
4e. This happens till i have no more images left on my screen.
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Some eons ago, I was a PS user and found my then-current machine had features which PS was not using. Cannot remember the fine detail, we are talking PS5 or 6...
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I am fed up with the P4 3.2GHz, 3GB, GeForce 9800GT platform I have - it stumbles and makes me wait... will I end up finding things not much better on a platform potentially 50 times faster? Or is 50 times faster just a dream?

The short answer is "yes", Photoshop can use all that with a 64-bit OS.
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Photoshop and Time Machine

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Thanks
Also would there be any benefit doing that?

You could use a +*separate partition+* that way, without any data conflicts, but it would be a bit risky to mix that with your TM backups, especially as the disk gets near full. If you were to suddenly add a lot of data at just the wrong time, TM may not have room to maneuver, and crash. This is rare, but does happen. And, as TM fills the available space, that would limit the amount you can use for Photoshop.
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Hi everyone,
since I installed Yosemite I have the problem that Photoshop (CC) starts batch processing by itself. That means that photoshop starts out of nothing and begins to execute some action on images in a certain folder. The images look some kind of distorted.
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Im familiar with the Photoshop batch process prior to CC but couldn't find an explanation on the web.
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Have you tried the Adobe forums?
https://forums.adobe.com/welcome

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