Apply Presets

Last updated on Oct 26, 2021 | Also applies to Creative Cloud for enterprise, Creative Cloud for teams

Apply autotone or upload your own presets to apply to a batch of images.

What is the Apply Presets task?

You've got a large set of pictures from an office offsite and you wanted to change the color theme of the pictures. Maybe make all the pictures black and white. Or you want to change the color theme of all the identity card pictures to a color theme that matches your company's logo. You could do this in a image editing software, of course. But if you've got a lot of pictures, this might turn out very time consuing and extremely tedious.

To change the color theme of a large number of pictures, now use the Apply Presets automation service and get this done in an easy-to-use workflow. You're not required to install any software or software license. This is a free service. Just use your browser to apply presets on a large number of pictures in one go.

Learn to:

Run the task
Save the task

Run the Apply Presets task

So, let's get started with using Apply Presets to fix the color of some pictures.

In the Quick tasks screen, click Apply Presets.
Click Start and then Select.
Choose all the pictures to Apply presets from:
Your work in your Creative Cloud account.

A Dropbox account.

Your desktop.

Your uploaded pictures are displayed.
In the upper-right corner, if required:

Click Clear all to remove all the pictures you've uploaded.

Click Add to add more pictures.
Click Next.
Now, select one picture (from the pictures that you uploaded) to use as a preview for this task. That way, you get a preview of how the picture looks.

Click Select.
From the pictures you've uploaded, choose a picture to use as a preview.
Choose a preset.

We've selected autotone by default.
Choose the preset that works best and then click Next.
Choose one or more export formats.

You can choose mulitple formats. We will create copies for each format.

If you notice, the total assets displayed in the bottom right corner, shows the number of output files that will be created.
Once you're done, click Run task.
As soon as the task is complete, you'll receive a notification, by email.

To start a new task, click Return home.

To view the output of this task in Your Work, click View files.

Save the Apply presets task

Save tasks that you'll perform repeatedly. For example, you often apply a specific color theme to new joinee identity cards that match your company's logo.

The first time you run the task, save it. We'll save all the configurations you've made. From then on, all you need to do is run the saved task and change the files to upload. All saved tasks are displayed in the Aspen home screen. So, when you're at the home screen, you can either choose to start a new task or re-use a task you've saved before.

As you proceed through the steps to run the task, you'll see a Save task button in the upper-right corner of your workspace.

Click at any point during the workflow.
Enter a name and, optionally, a description.

As you progress to subsequent steps in the workflow, we'll save any other configuration changes you make to the task.

As you progress to subsequent steps in the workflow, we'll save any other configuration changes you make to the task.
The next time you open a task you previously saved, you'll be prompted to choose if you want to use the previous set of assets or discard those are use a new set.

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