Batch editing in Lightroom with presets: time saved per shoot

A wedding, editorial, or full-day shoot quickly yields 500 to 2,000 photos. Editing all of those manually takes days. With presets and Lightroom's batch function you reduce that time to hours.

The fastest workflow: import your photos, quickly sort by colour label or flag, select all usable images in the library, apply the preset to the selection. Then go through them individually for small adjustments per photo.

A useful trick: use the Auto-Sync feature in the Develop module. Turn on the toggle at the bottom right next to Sync, edit one photo, and all adjustments are applied immediately to your entire selection. This also works for manual corrections after a preset.

Consistency across a series is the biggest advantage of presets. If all photos from a reportage share the same colour treatment, the final result looks polished and professional, even if the lighting conditions differ slightly between frames.