So I've got a very odd folder of images here that I just like to use to demonstrate batch processing or basically applying settings from one image to multiple images across the board. So let's get to it. I'm going to take this first image here, and you'll notice the models holding a gray card. So we're going to use a little bit of revision on some other things here, I guess as well. I'm going to use that gray card as a reference for my eyedropper tool to set a custom white balance. So remember, a neutral gray card should be equal levels red, green, and blue.

And we can see here it's not at 65% Red 68% grain and 74% blue, but when I click on it, it gets pushed to neutral equal levels red, green, and blue. And we get a better white balance. So let's just backslash before after, before and after. So moving forward with the various settings we can apply here. The histogram seems to indicate the highlights are quite blown out. So we'll pull those down there.

Little bit of a gap on the left here that we might want to close down with our blacks as well might just bring the watts back up to touch the right hand side gonna bring in a little bit of contrast, just to separate those mid tines, maybe even a little bit of clarity there as well. Maybe even a little bit of vibrance, we can start to just bring the cameras forward a little a month, just open the shadows up a little to get a little bit more detail in the hair. Maybe we can add even more contrast, perhaps we might even take the exposure down a tiny bit that's looking a little bit nicer there isn't it and we maybe we a tiny bit green after that. Let's just give it a pup out of the grain there. So maybe a little bit on the warm side color wise maybe allow the vibrance a tiny bit.

So just press the Y key for a side by side before and after. Clearly a significant improvement to get this image at least to I guess proof quality in order to Submit for Approval. So I'm just going to go back to my D and I'm going to hit JD Back to the grid. Now, I want to show you how I can very easily apply the settings I just made to this image to all the others in the set. So I'm going to click on the first image here, and I'm going to shift click on the last one. And you'll see what happens is they all get selected, but you'll notice that so the darker gray images are unselected, the lighter gray images are selected.

But you'll notice this very first image here is even the lighter gray again. So this is what's referred to as the active image within the selection, the active image within the selection and what I need to do is make and whichever image I click on, becomes the active image within the selection as you can see there. Now if I click on the frame, the edge of the image you can see it, I lose my selection again. So I need to click and shift click and make sure I only click in the middle on the actual image and I want to make this one the active image the one I just made the adjustments to. So after I make that the active image I go ahead and down the lower right hand Kona here, in my library module, I click sync settings. And Lightroom says, okay, which settings Would you like to synchronize, it comes up with a big list of all the various settings I can apply.

And generally it generally by default, all the non localized adjustments will be chosen. So crop June, I think crops generally turned off, and it's a good idea to exclude crop. And I'm going to go ahead and click synchronize, and you'll see all the other images get the same adjustment applied to them. So pretty easy to do the heavy lifting on one image and then simply apply to the others. So I'm going to grab another image here, and go ahead and I might just reverse the order of these images. So I can go this way.

And with this image selected here, I'm going to press D for develop. And we can see again, we got the gray card, so I'm just going to go ahead and click that white balance has gone to let's not the greatest image here is it clearly, it looks like we're focused on the gray color More than anything else, the image looks a little bit on the magenta side still, so I might just go ahead and pull a little bit of magenta out of that to go to about there, we got a big gap on the left hand side. So I'm just going to grab the white, the blacks, rather and close the histogram there. That's pretty helpful, maybe just a little bit of contrast, maybe just take a little bit off the shadows, maybe a little bit of clarity, and that's probably not too bad. So I'm just going to use my arrow key now to advance to the next image, and we can see that it's taken under similar circumstances.

So I'm just down here at the bottom of the develop tab and it's going to hit previous and applies the previous settings. Move to the next image, click previous and bang, it applies the previous settings, move to the next image, click previous and it applies the previous settings, move to the next image click previous and it applies the same settings but this image hasn't fallen into line quite as nicely as we might have hoped. So it's gonna need a little bit of extra You can see the histogram has spiked up quite badly either end. So I might just pull those blacks back in, I might just pull those highlights back down and I could probably lower the exposure a little bit there as well I think and maybe just a little bit more contrast, and it looks a little bit nicer there. So we've gone ahead and applied all of those settings there.

Now, this next image here, what I'm going to do is something a little bit different. I'm going to I'll click on the gray card first and I'll show you that I think there's a few problems with this image where the custom white balance actually ends up not quite as good as as the default. And I think it's just to do with the angle that the gray cards being held there and that you can see we've used some flashes well so the the color balance of the flashes may be confusing the gray card system with its angle, so I'm going to go back to there. And I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to add some contrast to this image. Just to get a little bit more three dimensional. I'm going to add some vibrance just to bring out those colors, I'm going to give it a little bit of clarity, I'm going to open the shadows up a little just for the hair.

And then I can probably go a little bit more contrast after that. And let's see a side by side before and after, I think we've got a much more dynamic image there, maybe. I mean, it's a trick with clarity, you can go a little bit or a lot, I think that'll do for now. happy with that. So I'm going to go on to develop and make maybe just I can just a tiny bit of saturation as well. There's a coolness to the image.

I just like to warm it up a little. There we go. That's nice there. Now what I'm going to do with this image is I'm going to save those settings as a preset. So I go to my presets and I click plus. And I'm just going to call it let's just call this one test.

I'm just going to call this one test preset. And again Lightroom asks me which of these settings Do you want to include in the preset and I'll just include them all for now. Sometimes you might want to, you know, exclude things that you haven't in Included in the preset so I could for example as I've only done basic adjustments here, I could choose to exclude some of these extra things that way if the image I apply this preset to already has adjustments with those things, they won't be affected. So why don't we leave the noise reduction on its lens corrections fix post Yep, so we could choose to not include all of those things if we wanted. And, actually, I just turned lens corrections on denied there we go noise reduction Moldovan process version and calibration we'll leave on and I'm going to go ahead and click actually Well, one more thing I'm going to do just come to think of it I'm going to cancel out of here.

And I'm going to go down to my detail tab because we talked about shopping in the previous video, didn't we and I'm just going to apply my shop and faces preset here as well. That's a good thing to add to this preset. Now I'm going to go ahead and create my preset. I'm going to call it Test preset. I'm going to include, look, it's, I guess I'm probably confusing you now deciding whether to include these things or not in the preset. The theory is when you apply it like let's say, for example, I wanted to apply this preset to an image that I'd already done some adjustment to the lens correction, and this would override it.

So in this case, we can turn it off. So I'll say no lens correction. I'll say no effects. I do want. I haven't done anything to the tone curve. So I'll turn that off as well.

Clarity, sharpening fiber and saturation these things I have done. So I will include them in the preset and create. So there's my test preset. Now, I can move to another image in this set shot under similar conditions. Go to my test preset and click it and bang, it gets the same adjustments. But what I can also do that's a lot more fun is I can go into my GridView in the library, I can grab my friend the painter tool down here.

Here, and I can say this time painter, I would like you to paint with settings. And I continue reading left to right, go to my settings menu, go down to my user presets, and there's my test preset just there. And now with my painter in tow, I can simply click and click and click and click to apply those settings. And I'm done. So, there's three different ways that we can batch process images from sinking settings to using the previous button in the develop module to creating a preset and then applying the preset with the painter tool. Now, that's a lot of lies already, isn't it but believe it or not, there's even more so I'm just going to show you one more.

You'll notice I missed this image here, because I started here and went from left to right and finished here. We missed this one here. It doesn't have the settings so I can go to an image like this and I can either go I think it's under visit photo and develop settings. Cities often forget where things are on the menus, because I'm so used to using the keyboard shortcuts. So photo, develop settings and copy settings. And again Lightroom asks me which settings Do you want to copy, and I'll go ahead and copy all of those.

And then I click on the image that I want to apply those settings to, and I go, photo, develop settings and paste settings and bang, it's updated. So lots of different ways that you can do all your work on a single image and then apply very quickly and easily all those adjustments to a whole bunch of images shot under similar conditions. Once you've gone ahead and done that, you can certainly then custom tweak some more of them. Like I'm looking at this one for example, and I'm thinking it could possibly have a little bit more something if we go Can we maybe brings bring the exposure up a little bit and maybe even just a little bit more clarity there as well. And maybe it would even benefit from an Nice radio filter, just giving me a little bit of non central vignette action as that Trey's a little bit light in the background there, isn't it?

Can we do something like that? Why not? before and after, maybe it's a little bit heavy. Take a little bit more off there and maybe just bring a little bit more back on the shadows. And if we'd started to lose a little bit of detail on the hair, we can grab the brush tool. And holding down the option key to go into some track mode on might just brush back the hair that we may have lost before and after.

And j for grid so there's some batch processing options, applying your metadata settings from one image to many