Speed up editing with recipes

Edit a single photo and apply processing settings to pictures taken at the same time

BRIAN WORLEY

With fast frame continuous shooting rates and the almost endless capacity of memory cards it’s all too easy to capture large numbers of photos, but this means of a lot of editing. It doesn’t matter if you shoot RAW or JPEG, recipes simplify the edit workflow. Edit one image, and apply the edits to multiple similar shots. Saving recipes with preferred image styles brings speed and consistency.

The number of photos we take has vastly increased compared to the past, making a much harder task to refine and edit all the shots. Maybe you took 10 shots to capture the best action grabbing frame or mashed down the shutter and took 20 when the bird flew straight at you resulting in lots of RAW images to process.

DPP stores each edit you do to a photo as a recipe. This recipe is completely detailed down to spot removal, selective area adjustment and slight rotation of the frame. Every time you edit an image in DPP, it updates the recipe for the shot, and allows you to use it to process multiple shots. Recipes got more powerful in recent years with the ability to choose which elements of the recipe to apply to other shots.