Batch processing artificial light correction

[Richard Pring]

I haver taken a series of pictures of a concert under artificial light. I can correct the balance OK for individual images, bit can I correct for an initial image and then batch process the rest using these corrections?

I am using V2.

Thanks

Richard

[Old Bruce]

19 minutes ago, Richard Pring said:

I haver taken a series of pictures of a concert under artificial light. I can correct the balance OK for individual images, bit can I correct for an initial image and then batch process the rest using these corrections?

In theory yes*. In this case, a concert, it really depends on whether or not the colour of the artificial light changes during the performance. I think back to the various shows I have seen. In some the colour of the light was constantly changing. In others the light's colour was constant from start to finish. For example ELP, no. John Scofield, yes.

Open one of the raw* files and make sure if you are on a Mac that the Serif Labs option is used in the Develop assistant, not the Apple one. Develop it as a Linked or Embedded choice (in the context menubar. Develop it. Now, with the raw file's layer chosen, use the Macro to record and hit the Develop button in the Context Menubar. Make your whitebalance choice and develop it, again. Stop recording. Save the macro. 

Run a batch job on the concert raw files and choose to use that macro. Should work.

I cannot take credit for this it was developed [See what I did there emoticon] by @carl123

 

* It will only work if the files are raw files, not JPEGs.