Guide · editing in bulk
Editing a whole shoot at once
Develop one photo the way you want, then carry that look across the rest, page through to check each frame, and export the set in one go.
That is the moment bulk editing is for. You have found the look, and now you want it on the rest of the shoot without dragging the same sliders thirty times over. Loupe does this the way a photographer would: finish one frame, carry its development across to the others, and let each photo keep its own framing. Here is the whole flow.
Get one photo right first
Start where you always would. Open the set, pick the frame that matters most, and develop it until you are happy with it: exposure, colour, contrast, a curve, whatever the picture asks for. This first photo is your reference. The better it looks, the less you will touch afterwards, so it is worth spending your attention here and almost nowhere else.
Copy the look to the rest
Once a photo has a look worth sharing, Loupe offers to spread it. A bar appears asking whether to apply this look to your other photos. Press it and every other open photo takes on the same development at once: the same tone, colour, black and white, grade, the lot.
What it does not copy is anything tied to the single frame. Each photo keeps its own crop, its own straightening and its own masks, because those belong to the picture, not to the look. If you only want some of the set done, tick those photos in the filmstrip first and the offer narrows to just them. Applied it and changed your mind? One undo puts every one of them back.
One photo developed properly, its look carried across in a click, every frame still yours to adjust.
Page through and check
Copying a look is fast, but you still want to watch it land on each frame, because a warmth that flatters one photo can be a touch much on the next. So move through them. On a phone, swipe left and right, the way you would through a post with several pictures. On a computer, the up and down arrow keys step from one photo to the next without reaching for the mouse. Anywhere a frame needs a nudge, adjust it on the spot; that one photo changes and the others stay as they were.
Ask it what it thinks
You do not only have to ask for edits. If you are unsure which frame to lead with, or whether the set hangs together, ask. Which of these is the stronger crop? Is this one too warm next to the others? What would you do with this shot? It answers in plain words, the same way it explains an edit, so a second opinion is always a sentence away.
Export the set in one go
When the shoot looks right, take it all at once. On a wide screen the toolbar offers to download everything, which renders each photo at full size and packs the set into a single zip, named so the order holds. No exporting one at a time, no renumbering afterwards.
Bulk editing usually means one of two things: a filter stamped on every photo whether it suits them or not, or editing each one from scratch and losing the afternoon. This is the middle path, and the original of every frame is always underneath, so nothing you do across the set is one-way.