Exit
  • Global community
    • Language:
      • Deutsch
      • English
      • Español
      • Français
      • Português
  • 日本語コミュニティ
  • 한국 커뮤니티
0

Hue/Saturation to a PDF

Community Beginner ,
Jun 07, 2023 Jun 07, 2023

Is it possible to apply a change to hue/saturation to every page in a PDF at the same time?

Thanks,

TOPICS
Windows
1.8K
Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines

correct answers 1 Correct answer

Community Expert , Jun 07, 2023 Jun 07, 2023

This can all be done using standard features, which isn't too much work for a single document:

 

1) Open each page as an Image (or rasterize as a page if you prefer):

2) Once all images (pages) are open, create an action for the colour correction

3) Use File > Automate > Batch and under Source = open files to apply the action, Destination = none

4) File > Automate > PDF Presentation, Add Open Files and set the multi-page document options as required

 

Translate
Adobe
Community Expert ,
Jun 07, 2023 Jun 07, 2023

PDF files can contain vector, text, gradient, raster and other information (video, hyperlinks, form fields, JavaScript coding etc).

 

Rasterizing such content isn't a great solution. This is why there are dedicated PDF editing tools, either stand alone or as plug-ins for Acrobat Pro.

 

If you don't care about rasterizing or the PDF data is already fully rasterized, then this could be automated.

 

Are the pages separate files, or layers in a single file?

 

Do you wish to save a multi-page PDF from Photoshop?

Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Beginner ,
Jun 07, 2023 Jun 07, 2023

Thanks for responding.

It is a multi-page PDF where each page is an image.  The images are of old documents and the PDF was created by a scanner.  The pages were white but the scanner was not configured properly so every page has a green tint that I would like to remove.  I've attached a small sample.

Thaks for any more help.

Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Jun 07, 2023 Jun 07, 2023

This can all be done using standard features, which isn't too much work for a single document:

 

1) Open each page as an Image (or rasterize as a page if you prefer):

2) Once all images (pages) are open, create an action for the colour correction

3) Use File > Automate > Batch and under Source = open files to apply the action, Destination = none

4) File > Automate > PDF Presentation, Add Open Files and set the multi-page document options as required

 

Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Beginner ,
Jun 07, 2023 Jun 07, 2023

I'm sorry but you lost me.  I'm not very experienced with this stuff.

"1) Open each page as an Image (or rasterize as a page if you prefer):"

OK, I opened the PDF and selected "Images" so it seems to have opened each individual page.

"2) Once all images (pages) are open, create an action for the colour correction"

OK, I think that I can created the action correctly (it makes an adjustment layer and then sets the current adjustment layer) but I don't understand which of these steps tells it to perform that action on every page.

"3) Use File > Automate > Batch and under Source = open files to apply the action, Destination = none"

OK, I did that.

"4) File > Automate > PDF Presentation, Add Open Files and set the multi-page document options as required"

OK, I see that.  That seems to compile the individual files back into a single PDF. 

I guess that #2 is where I'm having the trouble.

Thanks for your help.

 

Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Jun 08, 2023 Jun 08, 2023

The action in step 2 is used by the batch command in step 3 to run the action set/action to all open documents.

Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Beginner ,
Jun 08, 2023 Jun 08, 2023

I got it to work now.  I hadn't seen the field to specify the action to execute in the batch command.

 

Thanks again for your help.

Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Jun 09, 2023 Jun 09, 2023
LATEST
quote

I got it to work now.  I hadn't seen the field to specify the action to execute in the batch command.

 

Thanks again for your help.


By @Bob24326889y4sy

 

You're welcome, please mark my previous answer that listed the steps as the correct answer then.

Translate
Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines