Lightroom + Photoshop question

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Any lightroom and photoshop users available to help me with a question? It might be easier to explain via private message or over the phone. Ideally, I'd love it if someone could come to my house or meet me out and show me on my own computer how to do what I want to do as I'm not having a lot of luck with tutorials and videos online. I use lightroom and photoshop often, but need to use it for a purpose that I'm not used to. Basically, I want to open multiple files in photoshop from Lightroom and batch edit them with an action in regards to printing preferences CMYK, uncoated FOGRA29, etc. I understand how to create the action, I just don't understand how to apply them to many photos at once (or at least a handful at once). If anyone is up for helping me, I'd greatly appreciate it! Feel free to PM me.

[Burbage]

The problem is that Photoshop doesn't like Lightroom as a source for batches and Lightroom can't understand Photoshop Actions.

That leaves two main ways of doing it. Neither are particularly elegant, but better than nothing.

The first is to run Photoshop batches (File > Automate > Batch) using a Folder or Bridge as a source. If you use Bridge, you'll have to have Bridge running and the right files selected (preferably copied and pasted to a separate folder first, something that's easily done in Bridge but not, for some reason, in Lightroom).

Alternatively, you can add a Photoshop action as an Export Action for Lightroom. Simply ceate a droplet in Photoshop with File > Automate > Create Droplet, choose the right action and then save the droplet in the Adobe/Lightroom/Export Actions folder (assuming you can find it). You can then choose that action as a post-processing function when you export from Lightroom.

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Thank you! I prefer the sound of the second option as I'm in lightroom more and usually export from there. Thanks for your help.

Leigh