Photoshop Droplets

Workflow Automation

Photoshop Droplets: The Batch Processing Tool You're Probably Ignoring

A few years into running my own post-production consultancy, I took on a project that nearly broke me: 500 product shots for an e-commerce client, all needing the same sequence of adjustments. Resize to 2000px on the long edge, sharpen, convert to sRGB, export as JPEG at quality 9. Straightforward stuff. But at the volume they needed, and on a Friday afternoon deadline, “straightforward” stops feeling that way fast. I finished the job, but I also spent the following weekend building a system that meant I’d never sit through that particular grind again.

July 15, 2026

Workflow Automation

Photoshop Droplets: The Automation Tool You're Probably Ignoring

A few years back I took on a product photography contract for a mid-sized e-commerce brand. Three hundred SKUs, white background, consistent color profile, two export sizes each. Six hundred files total. The client needed them in 48 hours. I’d built the action sequence over the weekend before, tested it on a sample set, and felt good going into Monday morning. What I hadn’t planned for was how many times I’d need to manually trigger that action, folder by folder, because I’d set it up as a standard batch process through Photoshop’s automation menu rather than as a droplet.

June 30, 2026