Adjusting Multiple Images with Camera Raw in Photoshop

Camera Raw allows you to open multiple images in the dialog box at a time. This can be useful when applying presets to print images that contain similar characteristics, such as lighting, color, and contrast. The easiest way to go about doing this is to do the following:
1. Launch Adobe Bridge and select the thumbnails of the images you’d like to open (Shift+click to select adjacent images; F/Ctrl+click to select nonadjacent images).
2. Double-click one of the selected images or press F/Ctrl+O. If you prefer, you can also select images from their system folder location and press F/Ctrl+O, or choose Open With Adobe Photoshop CS3 from the contextual menu (Control+click—Mac, or right-click with a two-button mouse).

After the images are opened in Camera Raw, they appear in a vertical thumbnail list on the left side of the dialog. To increase or decrease the size of the thumbnails, you must expand or contract the vertical column by clicking and dragging the dividing bar on the right. To adjust images individually, select the one you’d like to work with from the vertical thumbnail list. Once selected, the image automatically appears in the Preview window and you can proceed to make your adjustments. When you’re finished, click the thumbnail of the next image you’d like to work with. To apply presets (saved adjustment settings) to multiple selected images, Shift+click to select adjacent images in the vertical thumbnail list, or F/Ctrl+click to select nonadjacent images. To select every open image in Camera Raw, click the Select All button. When you do, all of the thumbnails are highlighted. The thumbnail of the image that is currently displayed in the Preview window is outlined in blue. Click the preset name to apply saved settings to all of the selected images at once.