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If you own any of the various Adobe suites that include Adobe Bridge and Photoshop you can use Bridge to run batch operations on a group of pictures.

To do this open Adobe Bridge and browse to a folder that contains some pictures you want to modify. You can select all the photos or some of the photos by using the typical Windows Explorer shortcuts (CTRL+click and SHIFT+click). Once you have the photos you want to modify selected go to the Tools menu and choose Photoshop > Image Processor.

This will launch Photoshop and an ‘Image Processor’ menu.

You will notice that the number of photos you selected in Bridge should be mentioned at the top of the window and there are options for how you will determine what changes to make to the files, where and in what format they should be saved. You can also choose to reduce the image size and / or run a Photoshop Action.

Once you finish setting up your options click Run and Photoshop will process each file, save it and close it. This is an easy way to resize or perform another action on a large group of pictures.

I think that running an action on a group of pictures could be especially powerful. If you wanted to take 30 pictures and resize them and make them all grayscale you could do that without having to modify each one.

There are a couple of other simple batch operations accessed from the same Tools > Photoshop menu in Bridge. These allow you do renaming and other simple operations along with your specified actions.

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