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Five Photoshop Tips for Quick Editing
By Helen Bradley
June 5, 2008

Even the most enthusiastic Photoshop user sometimes despairs about the time that it takes to process images. Fortunately, when you want to get things done quickly there are tools you can use to work more effectively on routine tasks. In this article I'll show you five ways to speed up your work in Photoshop.

1. Get to Know the Image Processor

The Image Processor lets you resize and save a series of images at the one time — these can be images you selected in the Bridge before launching the application, those already open in Photoshop or a series of images that you choose from a folder.

You can save the resized files as JPEG, TIFF or Photoshop PSD files or all three formats, if desired. To resize the images, select the "Resize to fit" option and then set the width and height to the maximum width and/or height for each image.

This lets you resize portrait and landscape-orientated pictures as the longest side will be the maximum height and/or width you specify while retaining the original image aspect ratio. What this means is that the edited photos aren't skewed out of shape.

The Image Processor in Photoshop lets you resize images, convert and save the files in one step. (Click for larger image.)

If you're resizing and saving images that were captured in Camera RAW, select the "Open first image to apply settings" option. This opens the first image in the Camera RAW application allowing you to edit the image using settings that will then be applied to all subsequent images.

In this way, you can preprocess a series of Camera RAW images all at once. To select the location in which to save the processed images, click the Select Folder option and select or create a folder to use. When you're ready, click Run to process the images.

2. Work in the Bridge

You can rename and rotate multiple images at a time in the Photoshop Bridge. (Click for larger image.)

When you need to rotate and rename a series of images you can do the work in the Photoshop Bridge. Here you can preview a series of image thumbnails and rotate a group by selecting the first image and Shift + Clicking on the last in the series. Click the Rotate 90 Degrees Counterclockwise or Rotate 90 Degrees Clockwise button in the top right hand corner of the dialog to rotate all the images at once.

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