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In this tutorial, I'm going to take
a folder full of images and quickly change
all their color profiles from RGB to CMYK.
To do this, I'm going to demonstrate two techniques.
First, I'm going to demonstrate how to create
an action in Adobe Photoshop, and secondly,
I will demonstrate how to process a batch of images
using Adobe Bridge.
So here, I have the folder full of RGB images,
and I want to convert them all to CMYK.
Now, for the sake of organization and back up,
I am going to create a folder here called RGB,
and I'm going to move my images into this folder.
So, now I know all these images are RGB.
Later, I will be creating a CYMK folder
and we will have new images in here all as CMYK.
So, I'm going to start in Adobe Photoshop,
and I'm going to create an action.
An action is basically a recording of various steps
taken in Photoshop.
Once recorded, the action can be triggered
with one click and save you a lot of time
if you have to do the same thing many times
to lots of images.
So, let's see how this is done.
So, I'm going to open up my assets folder and
choose an image from the JPEG folder
in the RGB folder, right click,
and open in Photoshop.
So, now the image is open,
I can go ahead and create my action.
To create my action, I need the actions panel visible.
If you cannot see the actions panel,
then you can come up to window, scroll down,
and activate the actions panel here.
So, now I can see the actions panel
and in it, I can see some folders.
This is where I'm going to create my new action.
Notice I have some icons on the bottom of the panel
but at the moment they are all grayed out.
So, let's begin.
First, I will come to the top right of my actions panel
and click the drop down menu.
Then, I will select new action.
Here, I can name my action, which will be recorded,
stored, and allow me to use this again later,
even if I close Photoshop and open it again
in the future.
So, I'm going to call this action RGB to CMYK.
When you are ready, press record.
Once you've pressed record, you will now notice
the icons on the bottom of the panel
are now visible, and I can currently see a red dot.
This means I am now recording.
So, whatever action I take now
is going to be recorded.
Okay, so now come up to image, mode, and change the profile
from RGB to CMYK.
Now, I need to come back to my actions panel
and click on the stop icon located on the bottom
of the actions panel, and that's it.
You have created your action.
So, this action basically recorded me changing
the color profile from RGB to CMYK, quite simple.
Now, if I look in the actions panel,
I should now see the action I just created.
So, now it's a simple case of saving this image.
Now, I can either save and overwrite the image,
but I want to keep a backup of the RGB images,
so I will save as, create a new folder called CMYK,
and save it in here.
Okay, so let's go back to my RGB image folder
and open up another image.
With the image open, if I come over to my actions panel,
make sure I have the action I want to use selected,
press the play button, and Photoshop will then
carry out that action and successfully change the image
from RGB to CMYK,
and again, I can save as, and save it to the CMYK folder.
So, all I have to do now is open up all the images
and apply this action to each one until all images
are converted from RGB to CMYK.
Now, imagine you had 100 plus images to process.
As quick as that technique is, it could still
take some time.
There is another way to do this quicker using Adobe Bridge.
It is important to note that the technique
about to be shown uses Adobe Bridge and Photoshop.
To use the following technique, you must first create
an action in Photoshop.
Now, since I have already created the action in Photoshop,
I can go ahead and use Bridge.
So, first I'm going to remove the CMYK folder
I created earlier, as I'm about to create another
one using Bridge.
So, I'm going to go ahead and open Adobe Bridge,
and with Bridge open, I'm going to come to window,
workspace, and click on essentials.
If you do this, you should see the workspace layout
just like mine.
Okay, so now I want to navigate to my image folder
using the menu system on the far left.
Once I have located the folder and click on it,
I will now see in the content panel,
this one on the left, a series of thumbnails
representing my images.
If I click on one, I will see a larger example
here in the preview panel.
So, over in the content panel,
I can press command A or control A on PC to select all.
Now, in your preview panel, you will see a grid.
By selecting all, I can come up to the top menu
and I am going to select tools, then scroll down
to Photoshop, and select image processor.
For this, you will need Photoshop open,
but if Photoshop is not open when you do this,
it will automatically open it for you.
So, upon selecting image processor,
up will appear a properties box,
and here we have four actions we need to address.
So, I'm going to start from the top.
Number one, select the image to process.
We are going to leave this unchecked.
I do not want to open an image first to apply settings.
Number two, select a location to save processed images.
Here, I can choose a destination where my new
processed images will be placed.
So, I'm going to click select folder,
and I'm going to navigate to my JPEG assets folder.
So, we can see the RGB folder, and I'm going to click
the create new folder button.
I will call this CMYK and click create,
then click open.
So, with that setup, I can move on.
Number three, file type.
I'm going to make sure I have the save JPEG box checked
to match the current file format.
I'm going to make sure the quality is 12 for best quality.
I do not want to save as a PSD so I will
leave this unchecked,
and I do not want to save as a TIFF, so again,
I will leave this unchecked,
and lastly, number four, preferences.
Now, it's here where we are going to select
the action we created previously in the video.
So, I need to check this box, then to the right of this,
the selection options will become active.
So, the first option is to choose the folder
where your action resides.
We saved our action in the default actions folder,
so I will leave this and move on to the next option.
If I click this, I will then see a list of actions
in the default actions folder.
Depending on how many you have created in the past,
this could be few or many.
We now need to choose one.
So, I'm going to scroll down and select the action
RGB to CMYK.
Next, we don't need any copyright info for now,
so I will leave this blank,
and I'll leave the ICC profile checked.
So, with this setup, I will come up to the top right
and click run.
Then, what you will notice is Photoshop opening
every image and carrying out the action automatically.
So now, if I look in the assets folder
in the new CMYK folder,
we will have a folder called JPEG,
and in there, we will have a new set of images
and these will all be CMYK and ready to place
in my InDesign document.
So, that is how you can quickly modify lots of images
using an action in Photoshop and using image processing
in Adobe Bridge.
In this example, we simply changed the image profile
from RGB to CMYK.
Using this process, you could easily change image sizes,
resolutions, formats, and so on.
So, once I'm happy with my images and feel
they are all prepared correctly for my InDesign document,
I can now start to build my composition in InDesign.
Now, I could go straight into InDesign
and start to build my composition, but before that,
I want to think about the design.
I want to think about how I'm going to set about
creating and laying out my leaflet.
So now, I'm going to plan this on paper
before I jump into Adobe InDesign.
In the next video, I'm going to create a scamp
to plan and design my leaflet layout.
Remember, if you wish to skip this video, you can.
Links are in the description and PDF.
So, I'll see you in the next video.