Ok well my freaking server crashed and this tutorial was just plain lost. So I’m rewriting again for your viewing pleasure lol. Sorry if anyone had this linked – It won’t happen again! 
How this works and why its so useful!
-So Imagine you just took a hundred photos on a trip, or have a lot of photos from a shoot, or etc, and you want to resize them all. Or how about you want to watermark them all, and then change each into black and white? Or even more complex how about you want to take all the photos for a website gallery and make them all black and white, watermark them, resize them, change the brightness/contrast, and then rename then in particular fashion. Sound complex huh? Not with batch processes it isn’t! Once you understand them and begin utilizing them you will free up so much allowing you to focus your efforts and time on more important issues… like ______ (fill in fun activity here). So lets begin
1. Open up one image as a “template”
-As you can see above I opened up 1 photo from my set of photos that I want to apply my batch to. We are going to use this photo as a, “guinea pig,” or, “template,” for what we want done to our entire set.
2.Create a new Action
-Alrighty, after you opened up your “guinea pig image,” we need to access your actions panel to create a new action. Click the icon that I circled in red (as seen in the photo above) to create a new action!. If you cannot find your actions panel one can either GOTO>Window>actions, or simply press Alt+F9!
3.Name your action
-After you press the icon to create a new action, you will be presented with this dialog box. Name your action whatever you like. I highly recommend naming it something that reflects what it does like “resize/b+w”, that way when you have a bunch of actions you won’t be confused by actions called “asdf”, or “untitled1″ but for this tutorial I am naming my action… “myaction.”
4.Begin recording!
-After you are satisfied with all of your information in the dialog box you can then press record which is circled in for you. After you do that photoshop is now recording everything that you do! Proceed to the next step to learn how this works!
5.Look at your actions panel We’re recording!
-Look at your action panel! You can now see your new action their and the red record icon activated. Now whatever you do photoshop records! The point of this is that we will “playback” what you recorded on a huge batch of photos! wow!
NOTE: But first check out some options of the record panel below! These are very important in case you make a mistake or want to remove, reorder, or even rename parts of your action.
1-stop recording icon - allows you to stop the whole action, once you stop it is automatically saved
2-create new icon – as mentioned in step #2 this creates a new action for you!
3.trash can icon – this is the most important icon here, this allows you remove items in action. So in case you accidently something you didn’t want you can now easily remove it!
6.Lets add a resize to our action!
-Lets start by adding something simple to our action. Lets resize our image GOTO>Image>Image Resize. Then fill in the dialogue box as you please!
7. Hey look at our actions panel!
-Wow our resize image was added to our actions panel!! Lets add some more things to action! However just so you know there is no limit to how long or short you can make your action. If you really wanted to could stop right here and proceed to step #12. I’m just going to add more so you get the idea better!
8.Lets change the brightness/contrast!
-Next I’m going to add a “brightness/contrast” to our action. In CS4 GOTO>Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast, but in CS3/CS2/CS/7/etc, it should just be in Image. After you fill in the details proceed to the next step!
9. Our action is getting larger!
-Hey! look at our actions panel again! Its getting larger! Our image resize is in there from step #6, and now our brightness/contrast is in there too! Lets add one more thing!
10.Lets add a simple watermark!
-For this I simply selected the text tool in our tool palette(or just press “T”), and then I typed my last name and moved it over to the bottom right of my photo. Now this is where things get fishy! If you are looking at your actions panel and your seeing a lot of “extra items” in your action that you didn’t want. You can easily delete them by highlighting them and clicking the trash can icon/unchecking them.
11.Look at your actions panel again!
- Hey there it is! We my watermark item was added to the actions panel, along with everything else we did! As I mentioned before in step #7, you can add unlimited items to your action so feel free to add as many as you like! For now though, we are going to stop here.
12.Stop recording/Save your action
-Once you are completely satisfied with your action we are then ready to apply it to huge batch of photos! Click the stop icon in your actions panel above (circled in red) to automatically save your action and stop recording!
13. Lets try it out!
-As you can see above I am opening a lot of photos into photoshop! I opened like 12 photos but you can add as low as 2 or even hundreds! These are all the photos we want to apply our batch to. A quick recommendation though, if you are creating a batch for more than like 15 photos read about how you can import a whole folder, that way photoshop doesn’t completely crash when you open up a zillion images.
14. Clear out!
-Ok, so as you can I pointed to all of my open photos in red. Make sure before we apply the batch, that photoshop is cleared out. What do I mean by cleared out? Photoshop will apply the batch to everything that is “open,” so just make sure you don’t have anything opened up that you don’t want photoshop applying the batch to.
15. Apply the Batch
-Enough talk, lets apply our action! GOTO>File>Automate>Batch and then when a dialogue box pops up, proceed to the next step!
16. Hey theres my action!
-From the dropdown box called “Action” select your action! As you can see from the photo above mine is there circled in red.
17. The dialogue box explained – Pt.1
-Ok this are some options you should know about here. I numbered the items in red, and then explained them in red, follow what applies to you below.
1. Folder – This allows you to open a huge folder of images, I recommend this for huge sets!
2. Import - Allows you import photos to apply the batch too, I personally don’t like this method.
3. Opened Files – This is the step we are going to pick, this applies the batch to whatever is presently open in photoshop
***. Bridge - Using adobe bridge, you can pick photos and apply the batch to them from there.
18. The dialogue box explained – Pt.2
The next dropdown box called “Destination” has more option you should know about. Here they are explained below in red, again lol.
1. None - After you apply the batch, the photos stay in photoshop allowing you to make further modifications
2. Save and Close – Saves the image in a predetermined location, and then closes the image. Very useful if you have a lot of photos and you don’t need to make a further modifications to them
3. Folder - Saves the photos in folder that you specify. Pick this if you don’t want to overwrite your source photos!
19.Press Ok!
When are you all set press “OK.” You will then see photoshop start to go crazy and apply your action to all the photos you specified! It can take some time so grab a cup of coffee or a snack When its done you will see that all of your photos have had the action you created applied to it! WOW!
20.My finished product!
-Heres a photo from my batch! As you can see the photo has been resized, the brightness/contrast has been changed, and theres a watermark in the bottom right corner!
21.A quick summary of what we did
1. Opened up 1 image as a template
2. Created, and named our new action
3. Added items to our actions from our template photo
4. Stop/saved our action
5. Applied our action via batch process!
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