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18 November 2025

We had hit a brick wall. We wanted to convert a few dozen DNG files into JPEGs but since we haven't ever done this many at once, we weren't sure which method to use. There were several candidates.

  • Extract Them. There is a JPEG preview built into every DNG file (which is how you can see it a Raw-only capture your camera to begin with).
  • Export Them. We do our batch image editing in Lightroom so we can batch export our edits as JPEGs.
  • Something Else. Like point to the folder with the DNGs and get a folder of JPEGs in return. Or drag a bunch of DNGs to a conversion droplet. Or....

The first option would have been achievable with Michael Tapes's free ERawP, which doesn't seem to be available anymore. Talk about brick walls.

The second option involved more work than we wanted to do. We had DNGs in 12 different folders so that would be 12 imports into Lightroom and 12 exports out. And our Library would still have the imports so we'd have some cleaning up to do.

Was that third option hiding in plain sight, perhaps?

Years and years ago, Russell Brown provided Image Processor Pro as an add-on to Photoshop, which would have done just what we wanted. It offered a number of options, including conversion to various formats, resizing and embedding copyright information.

We couldn't find it online any more.

But if you look in Photoshop 2026's File>Scripts menu, you'll find its current descendant listed as Image Processor.

There's not much recently written online about this version of Image Processor but Adobe does document how to use it in an article Convert Files With the Image Processor, posted as recently as Oct. 27.

But we didn't really need the document for anything more than to tell us where in Photoshop we could find the new and improved Image Processor.

Actually, it resembles the old one pretty closely.

We pointed it to our first DNG folder, clicked Run and it displayed an image for each file it saved as a JPEG. It was something like a very quick slide show.

And as we watched the images come up, we were reminded Nikon (these were all Nikon captures) used to famously refuse to set the orientation tag. So everything was landscape.

To correct that, we relied on Photo Mechanic's lossless (and instant) JPEG rotation. We just opened the JPEG folder in Photo Mechanic, selected the portrait images and rotated them.

And before we had time to complain about anything, the job was done.


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