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You can process multiple files at the same time.
Go to File > Process Multiple Files.
You have several decisions to make.
Select the photographs that you want to process.
You can:
• Select Folder, and click Browse to find the desired folder.
If you want to include subfolders within the selected folder, select Include All Subfolders.
• Select Import to process photographs while they're imported.
• Open photographs in Photoshop Elements, and they will be processed if you select Opened Files.
• You can send your processed photographs to another folder by clicking on Browse and selecting the folder.
• Or, select Same as Source to send them to the folder where the original photographs are located.
However, if you do so, the original photographs will be overwritten, replaced, by the processed photographs.
If you wish, select Rename Files, and choose from many possibilities, or enter your own text.
If you want to change the size of the photographs, select Resize Images, and enter values for size and resolution.
Go to Change the Size.
Select File Type to change from one file format to another.
If you select Log errors that result from processing files, processing will not be interrupted by an error.
Instead, any errors are reported at the end of the processing in a log file.
Select from the menu to fix your photographs.
• Use Auto Levels if the contrast needs improvement, as well as the color balance.
Color balance is the overall color of a photograph.
• Use Auto Contrast if the color balance is okay, but the contrast needs enhancement.
• Use Auto Color if the color balance is off.
The contrast may change, as well.
• Use Sharpening for crude improvement.
Sharpening increases the contrast on the edges of subjects in a photograph to make the photograph look sharper.
For fine printing, do sharpening on each photograph individually.
Go to Sharpening.
Oddly, Photoshop Elements can batch process photographs for red eye in the Quick Fix section, but not with this command.
Go to Batch Process for Red Eye Removal
You can do batch processing with the Photoshop Elements RAW converter.
Go to File > Open, and select a group of RAW files.
Process the first photograph.
Then, press and hold Alt.
The Open button . . .
. . . becomes an Update button.
Click Update, and the next file that opens will have the same corrections as the first photograph.
Photoshop CS2 offers more powerful batch processing, as do many RAW converter programs.
If you make a change using an adjustment layer in one photograph, you can drag the layer onto other photographs to make the same change.
Click the layer, drag it onto another photograph, and release the mouse button.
You don't drag the layer from one Layers palette to the other Layers palette.
Again, the layer is dragged from the Layers palette onto the image of the new photograph.
Below, a layer is being dragged from the bottom photograph onto the top photograph.
The dotted-line rectangle is the layer about to be dropped onto the image of the second photograph.
Go to Move a Layer.
