Batch Edit — one look, a whole shoot, one tap

Apply your current edit or a preset file to dozens of photos at once, at full resolution, and save the lot to your camera roll.

Editing one photo well is craft. Editing forty photos from the same afternoon, one at a time, in the same way, is data entry. Batch Edit exists for the second thing.

How it works

The Batch Edit screen opens from the squares icon in the editor's top bar. Inside:

1. Pick your photos. The multi-select picker lets you take as many as you like in one go.
2. Choose what to apply. By default it is the edit you have open right now — the LUT, the sliders, everything. Alternatively, pick a preset file (.cube, .xmp or a LUT image) and that wins over the session edit.
3. Run it. A counter shows progress photo by photo, so a long batch never looks stuck.
4. Review the grid. Every processed photo appears as a thumbnail, in the same order you picked them.
5. Save. The whole set goes to your camera roll.

Every photo is rendered at full resolution, not preview quality — these are finished files, not proofs.

The details that matter on a long batch

Order is preserved. The results come back in exactly the order you selected them, so a batch stays matched to whatever you were working from.

One bad file doesn't kill the run. If a photo can't be decoded — an odd format, a corrupted file, a screenshot of something that isn't really an image — it is counted as a failure and the batch keeps going. You get a count of what succeeded and what didn't at the end, rather than a batch that dies at photo 23 of 40.

Nothing is overwritten. Batch Edit writes new images to your library. The originals are untouched.

When to use it

• A single shoot, one light. Forty frames from the same golden hour want the same grade. This is the ideal case.
• A consistent feed. Applying one saved look across everything you post is what makes a set of photos read as a body of work rather than a pile of pictures.
• Handing a look to someone else's photos. Import their .cube, point it at your set, done.
• Trying a look at scale. Run a preset across twenty photos to find out whether it actually holds up, or only worked on the one frame you designed it on.

When not to use it

Batch Edit applies the same numbers to every photo, which is exactly what you want when the light was the same — and exactly what you don't want when it wasn't. If your set moves from outdoors to indoors, from daylight to a restaurant, from a bright face to a backlit one, one grade will flatter half of them and wreck the rest.

The fix is to batch in groups. Sort by lighting, not by time: all the outdoor frames together, all the indoor frames together. Two batches of twenty beats one batch of forty, every time.

The full workflow

1. Edit your single best frame carefully — crop, correct, grade, effects.
2. Save it as a Recipe so the look survives beyond today.
3. Open Batch Edit, select the rest of the set.
4. Run it, review the grid, save.
5. Reopen the two or three that need individual attention — a face in shade, a frame shot into the sun — and fix those by hand.

Forty photos, one decision, twenty minutes saved.