According to several previous posts on this and other forums, it should be possible to batch process files using Color Efex. I don’t have Photoshop or Lightroom or anything else (other than NX Studio). So I’d be doing this from the Finder in MacBook. The suggestion is that you can select multiple images in Finder, right click and open in Color Efex. Yes, this works. But then the suggestion is that you can apply filters to the first image, and then it will either propagate to the remainder (so that you can just save all), or maybe hit Apply All. Neither works for me: filters applied to the first in the sick do not propagate to the others, and there is no Apply All button. Any ideas? Thanks.
Just tried this again, and it does kinda seem to work (File > Save All)… but it’s all very non-intuitive.
Firstly, it’s not clear at all that this is how batch processing works… i.e. that you load them all in a “stack” and then apply your preset to the first, then save all.
Secondly, there are no export options… seems like the only option is to “Save All”… so the only choice is to save over the originals (maybe I want to save somewhere else… in which case I need to make my copies outside of Nik and process those). And there is no choice about save format or quality… maybe I want to save as TIFF rather than JPG… or if I’m saving over JPG then maybe I want to specify the quality (it’s not clear what JPG quality is actually used).
Thirdly, if you make changes to the first image, these do propagate down to the others. But if you make the mistake of flicking to the second image, then back to the first to make more changes… the chain is broken and any further edits made to the first do not propagate to the second and subsequent.