Those of you who are doing your RAW workflow in Bridge, how do you batch the RAW to JPEG? When I tried, I would have to hit OPEN in the RAW dialog box for every image.

What is the way around this? It took forever, so I stopped it and finished the batch in DPP.

The Image Processor is pretty great for doing batch conversions. In Bridge it is under Tools->Photoshop and in Photoshop it is under File->Scripts. (I think?)

There may be better ways.....

Thanks Forest, I'll play around with that.

Kurt,

In CS2 Bridge, I click on "Edit">"Select all"; then right-click on the images, which opens a menu; - then select "open in camera raw"; then in ACR Raw, click on "select all" at the top of the multi-image strip (upper left) ; then click on "save __(how many) images" (lower right).

This will give you a dialogue box, where you can direct to where you want the files to be saved, and in what format (jpeg, Tiff, PSD), and what quality. Click save, and you're done (take a break!).

I find this more bullet-proof than image-processor; especially if your RAW files are 16-bit.

Ken

Kurt, I just wanted to clarify for Forest... If you are in Bridge, simply go to Edit, Select All, and then Image processor. CS2 will then open up with a dialogue box, at which point you can choose how and where to batch your images.

Have fun!

Awesome guys. I was getting so frustrated last night because I knew it shouldn't take so long.