Using Photoshop Actions and Droplets with Lightroom

[@keithridge3039]

Excellent, JKost! You push all the right buttons giving me through understanding.

[@JohanSchmidt]

Excellent - you have a beautiful way of explaining complex things very simply - thanks

[@kenolsoncollin6941]

Make sure your actions in PS that you are creating a droplet for already has a Save command running so that when you go to create the droplet, you can select the save and close option, as well as override "save as" command

[@galatan05]

Thank you for all the advices, very usefull. I have a big dilemma, If I send just one photo (RAW ) from Lightroom to Photoshop and use tiff format I will get a good quality after editing in CS.Exporting from Lightroom to a folder as JPG and then to Photoshop for action applying ( the way that droplet works ) would the final image have the same quality as the above method?or should I export as DNG and AFTER EXPORT select the droplet ?

[@LeonardCartersureshotfoto]

Hi Julieanne. Thanks for the great content as always. I've been pondering an easy way allow my marketing dept to simplify batch processing of images and I had been considering droplets but I have a few questions. First of all how easy are they to share? I was considering setting the "save as" to a specific folder, sending that folder in the zip file and having them place it on their desktops. Our marketing team mostly use Macs but some are PC, that shouldn't matter with PhotoShop CC right? Finally, are there any other problems that I might run into? How would you approach this problem?

[@mdks1012]

Awesome Julie.... Droplet could not communicate with photoshop please fix this...thnks!

[@michiuno2238]

I've run into a problem when exporting a number of photos from lightroom using a droplet to add some filters in PS: When I instruct LR to export as JPG, PS executes the action but then stops when trying to save the file (over itself) opening the JPG dialog. This does not happen when exporting (in LR) to PNG. Is there a way to predetermine the saving settings PS should apply? Ideally PS would take over the settings set in LR as it seems to do when exporting to PNG. PS V 23.2.2 / LR V 11.2

[@kenolsoncollin6941]

Make sure your actions in PS that you are creating a droplet for already has a Save command running so that when you go to create the droplet, you can select the save and close option, as well as override "save as" command

[@ragmanintx]

You see... I just don't see that as 'Tightly Integrated'. Certainly not as tightly integrated as Bridge & PS. I can select several hundred DNGs in Bridge, Menu Option to select Russell Brown's much better dialog "Image Processor Pro" (why that has NEVER become part of the base product is Beyond Me...), choose the Action or Actions (because I can have the same image run against several different actions resulting in multiple treatments). All much quicker than is done in LR (I like LR, but batch processing against PS actions is NOT its forte. In fact, compared to ACR/Bridge/PS - it loses.). No need to Export all those images. No need to Import into the LR Library the resultant treatment. That's nuts. Its 2016. I should be able to select a whole set of images in LR and tell it to have this or that PS Action(s) applied to it. BUT. I. CAN'T. And that, frankly, stinks. IN LRv2 or 3... that was somewhat understandable and acceptable. IN LR6? Give Me A Break. Exports. Droplets. Imports. That is what we call a KLUDGE, that is NOT tight integration. Come on LR/PS DEV Team, can we get around to doing this right?

[@tubelite1111]

I'm a fan but why are you recycling these old (this is 2009?) videos as if they were new? Authentically new videos would be appreciated but these are not.