When you select a software program that allows you to reduce your workload with several of its features, you have the ability to save time and increase productivity. Raw photo editing can be interesting and very time consuming, therefore, you should have the facility to create presets and to select multiple photos at ones to make sure each one gets the necessary change, to further send it for creating a finer copy. This is especially good when software like Aftershot Pro and Photoshop both work together in tandem. Where Aftershot pro allows professional grade editing of raw photos using presents and batch processing controls, you will have done photo batches completed in no time. You can control the workflow easily and further edit the picture if one particular one does not fit to your liking.

Creating and Using Presets: Presets are saved settings and editing adjustments which can be done for universal tasks for a particular photo album like the exposure, contrast, color, filters, etc. These presets when combined with batch processing can change thousands of photos at the same time. Once you have created a preset you can apply it to a single raw photo or a batch of photos.

You can customize presets to suit to your particular style, you can also create your own library of presets. Most photo editing software provide a basic library of presets however, it may or may not be useful for the professional photographers. You can have innumerable presets for every type of photo. Once created these last forever, so you can use it as many times you want. You can apply it to your Raw photo with a single click, you will not require to go through the same processes of adjusting a photo again and again.

Batch Processing is necessarily editing and processing photos in a batch. Using presets to batch process photos is one of the useful and productive processes. Firstly, when a preset is used to batch process photos, it saves lot of time. Another benefit is that the batch processed photos will have a similar look, you will not find a single photo out of place, thereby maintaining uniformity in the photos and the album.

When you use Aftershot Pro 3 and Photoshop together, you get some fantastic benefits vis-a-vis the output and to maintain the workflow. Here are the benefits:

1. Maintaining a consistent and efficient workflow: When you apply presets from Aftershot Pro, you can send images with a single click to Photoshop, this happens without loss of any quality to the original or the edited files.
2. Once photos have been sent to Photoshop you can always go in for advanced editing or further harnessing Photoshop’s superb editing features. You can further refine all images or some images which are more impactful and meaningful than the others.
3. Streamlining of Workflow, this is very important to those who deal with thousands of images each day. If you want to add effects from Photoshop to a single photo or an entire batch you can do so with ease. You have all images with similar uniformity and maintain a particular cohesive aesthetic.
4. Flexibility and Greater Control over the workflow: If you do not like the result for a particular image, you can always revert changes or apply further changes to that image using Photoshop’s powerful software. Revert the changes and apply a newer filter or individually edit a photo according to your liking.
5. Efficient use of Photoshop’s Advanced Editing Power: Where initial presets can be applied in Aftershot Pro, you can always do retouching, compositing, creative effects, etc. in Adobe Photoshop. Thereby making images more impactful and interesting.

1. Begin by importing images into Aftershot Pro.
2. Create a preset and apply basic edits like exposure, contrast, white balance and color correcting.
3. Create a batch of photos to which you want to apply the preset, best way is to organize photos into folders, and/or provide keywords or tags to each photo. This will images available for batch processing easily and you will save time without having to repeat same process over and over again.
4. Try out a few with batch presets first and see if they fit your requirement.
5. If you are OK with the result, go ahead and apply these presets to all the raw images you want to process.
6. Now you can move these images in a rich format to Photoshop, the most preferred type of images files are the .TIF or the Tiff files which are richer images as compared to any other.
7. Create preset for advance edits or select special images where you want to harness the power of Photoshop to create something amazing from the rich images you already have.

Here is a how a regular workflow would look like if you use both Aftershot Pro and Photoshop to transform and make RAW files useful:

Thereby, you can use both Aftershot Pro and Photoshop together and reduce workload immensely save time and put it towards making better and richer images.