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Is it possible to copy the settings and adjustments you have done to one photograph and paste those settings into another photo edit? No
Can I 'Batch Convert' several photos at the same time with the same settings and adjustments? Not if you are referencing the stuff described in your first question.
What you are talking about is an "action"-- a series of recorded steps. Photoshop (Elements big brother) can record and playback actions. PSE can play actions, it cannot record them.
Please ignore the bleach image, it's for another question, not this one.
99.99999% of actions are designed for photoshop.
Lots of times with actions that are purchased, or found on line, they will work up to a point, then stop when the action encounters a feature or tool that PSE does not have.
I only pay $10.84 a month for photoshop--- something you might want to give a try.
@Kimbals, actually it is possible to batch process edit several photos at the same time. However, it depends on what kind of edits you are talking about. In the Organizer, you can select several photos and go to the Instant Fix editor. This allows you to select one or more of your photos and apply the same adjustments to them. The features are very basic, but frankly I probably do at least 50% of my editing using this method.
Another way to batch edit is to open several images in the Camera Raw editor. You can select multiple images in the Editor and apply the same edits to all of the selected images. The images do not have to be raw photos. You can use the File>Open in Camera Raw command to select jpegs or other formats too.
I am going to ping @MichelBParis, another community expert, who I believe has a method to apply a chosen or favorite set of edits to additional images in the Raw Editor. I will let him explain his method, if that is what you are interested in.
By @Greg_S.
Yes Greg, the ACR module (Adobe Camera Raw) available in Elements provides a very different approach to digital files editing. It's a 'Digital Negative' converter which has been offered to work with the "raw" data gathered from each photosite of your camera sensor, before any processing made by your camera to extract color and details and to output a jpeg format for further use. The raw data is proprietary and must not be altered in any way, so the converter does not change the original data, does not either produce an edited copy, it only saves a 'recipe', a tiny text file of the commands (sliders) used for the conversion. The process is called 'parametric' (it saves the commands) and it is 'non destructive' (the original is never changed).
What is important is that the same workflow does work not only on raw files, but also on ordinary jpegs, psd, tiffs...
The 'recipes' are normally saved in tiny (sidecar) text files (with xmp extension) alongside the original file. Or you save the result in a universal DNG raw format including both the original data and the recipe.
When you are satisfied, you 'select all' files and either click 'Done.' (all individual edits are saved instantly) or click open (all files are opened at the same time in the editor). If you click on 'save', you create new DNG files containing both the original and the recipe, but that's another story.
So you can always reprocess any of your edits at any time.
The very smart feature is that the recipe of the LAST edit is kept separately. Say you open 50 files and want to assign the same edits than another specific edit made long ago.
- open the specific file
- re-edit it without changes - 'Done'
- Open the 50 files at the same time, select all
- Select the option to apply the lastest edit to all
- That's all.
That parametric edit workflow can perform the main global edits of the normal pixel editor, with better quality but not the layers and fine details editing. So, in practice, that means 95% of my shoots, the rest must be opened afterward in the pixel editor where the answer by Glenn does apply.
Just try to play with the ACR editor even with jpegs. Use the help button of the ACR dialog to get acquainted with raw editing, and ask here for more specific help.
Final note:
While the superior editing quality of raw converters applies mainly to real raw files, the ability to batch edit jpegs or raws at the same time makes ACR editing globally much faster than with the pixel editor only.
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