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How to batch process special effects with the DxO Nik Collection

January 16, 2014 by Rod Lawton

04 Batch processing

Color Efex Pro batch processing

Now I can just sit back and watch while Color Efex Pro processes each image in turn. If you’re working from Lightroom or Aperture, these are saved back to your image library as they’re processed. It’s that easy!

05 Processed images in Aperture

Color Efex Pro batch processing

Back in Aperture, the processed images have been stacked with the originals – and currently these processed photos are still selected. Don’t deselect them yet!

06 Create a new album

Color Efex Pro batch processing

I’ve created a new album with these images still selected. I’ve called it ‘Old Photo Cool’, which is the name of the effect I applied, and all the new pictures are added automatically. But there’s more…

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Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Batch processing

Life after Photoshop is owned and run by photographer and journalist Rod Lawton. Rod has been a photography journalist for nearly 40 years, starting out in film (obviously) but then migrating to digital. He has worked as a freelance journalist, technique editor and channel editor, and is now Group Reviews Editor on Digital Camera World. Life after Photoshop is a personal project started in 2013.

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