Experiences batch editing with Picasa

James Mok is serious about his photography - witness his flickr pro account, his high end Nikon D2X digital camera, and his easy working familiarity with Photoshop.

So when he has a particularly important assignment - to produce a set of stylish wedding photos for a friends wedding, what does he reach for?  The answer is Picasa of course.  Although it's possible to achieve the washed out tinted and grainy feel that he wanted with Photoshop, the batch editing, and simplicity of the slider controls in Picasa made the job much easier.

Things didn't all go smoothly:

• Picasa works in RGB, rather than sRGB, so for his discerning eye, the end results were initially too saturated - so he redid the originals to desaturate them first in Photoshop, then reapplied the imaging editing to the desaturated images in Picasa.
• On exporting the files from Picasa after editing, the file sizes grew - no doubt a result of a change in the quality settings compared to the input images.

The resultant set of images is available as a flickr photoset.