
You will get a menu that looks like this:Īs you can see, I chose the same folder as both the source and the destination, meaning I was only left with one set of files after I finished batch editing. To Batch edit in CS6, go to File>Automate>Batch. I recommend doing this before you Batch edit your photos, so that you can keep your originals while saving the edited photos over the duplicates. I chose a sequence of stills ahead of time and copied them to a different folder on my hard drive. The next step is to Batch your photos with the Action Set. When you’re finished editing, your Action Set should look something like this: From here on out, every edit you make will be recorded, even including changing the image size and saving. When you create a new Action, you will be prompted to name the Action and then click the Record button. Then create a new Action by clicking the folded page icon next to the folder icon. To create a new action, you first have to create a new Action Set by clicking the folder icon. Open the Actions Menu next to the History Sidebar. (You can achieve the same effect using presets in Lightroom.)

The way I did this was create an action in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and batch the photos.

The first step was to make sure all the stills looked consistent. I thought this process would be interesting to share, in case there are those out there who want to make a time-lapse from stills but have no idea how. Thankfully, the internet exists, and I was able to combine a couple of resources–namely, this article and this video–to use the tools I had at my disposal to cobble together some time-lapse footage. The problem was: I’d never made a time-lapse before. Part of the idea was to make a time-lapse video out of the stills.

Over the course of this year’s Midwest Photography Expo, Adam captured some video and stills with a GoPro HD Hero3+ Black.
