FocusBatch automates the editing — but knowing which edit a scene actually needs is a craft, and it lives here. Get help building rulesets, learn the photography behind them, and help shape where the tool goes next.
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FocusBatch works best when the shot is captured with the edit in mind. Learn the shooting techniques — exposure, white balance, framing — that make the rulesets land, taught alongside the rulesets themselves.
Live video sessions building rulesets and teaching techniques, where you can ask questions in real time and get answers on the spot.
Coming soonFor amateurs who want to get out and actually take photos: show-up accountability to keep you shooting, not just planning to.
Coming soonAn online workspace for professionals editing at volume — body-doubling to get through the backlog together. Think Focusmate, but for FocusBatch.
Coming soonBorrow rulesets, adapt them to your style, and share your own back. The library grows with every contribution — and contributing comes with a real reward (below).
Find rulesets and techniques for the work you actually do.
Painterly grades, film emulation and tone-mapping recipes; texture and gradient-map looks; mood-led colour grading using the ACR colour-grading codes; sepia, quadrant-colour and molten-metal stylisation; building consistent series and print-ready sets; matching a body of work to one signature look; Mixer-Brush painterly rework scaffolding; toning for gallery vs screen; sequencing images into a cohesive collection; discussing concept, intent and what makes an edit "yours" rather than automated.
Light composites, focus stacking, photo-stitching and family/team composites; Set/Get Image Aside stacking workflows; layer-naming and Documents Open staging; blend-mode and blend-if techniques for seamless merges; stereo images and wigglegrams; space/background swaps; aligning bracketed frames; masking depth planes with the depth map; generative fill for removing rigs or adding elements; building repeatable composite templates others can reuse.
High-volume same-day turnaround; ceremony low-light and no-flash rescue; mixed indoor/outdoor white-balance routing across a single day; skin-tone consistency across hundreds of frames; group-shot even lighting; culling and rating workflows; delivering a preview set before leaving the venue; auto-emailing finished frames; genre ruleset packs for reception vs ceremony vs portraits; backlog accountability and co-working through the edit; sharing "this saved my Sunday" rulesets.
Crop-to-face and headroom rules; skin retouching and oily-skin fixes tuned per skin tone; eye/iris/teeth enhancement; catchlight checks; golden-hour skin warmth; separating subject from background for depth; headshot vs mid vs group framing by face area; studio setups signalled from the camera; reflections-in-glasses and other edge cases; building a personal portrait look; critique and before/after of finished portraits.
Big-sky vs small-subject composition rules; sky dehaze and graduated-sky protection; long-exposure water softening; blending exposure brackets automatically; golden/blue-hour and time-of-day routing; autumn foliage colour push; horizon auto-straighten (and when to skip it); dealing with overcast/white skies; timelapse gradient grades between sunset and darkness; location and gear talk; sharing regional/seasonal rulesets.
Focus-stacking flowers and insects; close-focus sharpening and detail recovery; subject-size detection to tell an insect from a flower; macro lighting composites; combining a day's macro captures into stacked finals; animating multiple exposures with Apply Image; controlling depth of field and diffraction; field vs studio macro workflows; colour accuracy on vivid petals; sharing lens-specific sharpening recipes.
Long-lens, fast-shutter sharpening and reach; high-ISO noise reduction that spares the subject; tiny-subject detection (birds in flight); species routing via keywords, subject size and colour; kingfisher-style saturated-colour scenarios; separating a soft background from a crisp subject; environment tags to infer species; patience, fieldcraft and ethics discussion; gear and hide talk; sharing wildlife recipes by species or biome.
Fast on-site delivery over FTP; mixed and changing lighting across a venue; metering-mode-signalled lighting setups; rating-driven edits from the back of the camera; remote/on-site editing without a laptop open; batch-at-scale overnight runs; auto-upload to client galleries or socials; consistency across thousands of frames; conference/sports/party sub-scenarios; sharing high-throughput rulesets and reading batch logs to tighten them.
Instant fun-look LUTs and film emulation; a dedicated body/camera getting its own treatment; square and social crops; strong-contrast punchy grades; frames, borders and branding overlays; template composites for props/backgrounds; rapid auto-delivery to guests; GIF and animation output; consistent look across a whole event; sharing photobooth presets and quick-turnaround setups.
The whole community is open at no cost while it grows. Two things are worth doing sooner rather than later.
Build rulesets and share them with the community, and you earn a free FocusBatch subscription. The people who make the library valuable shouldn't have to pay to use it.
Joining early counts. The first members help shape the community and the tool — and early support is recognised and rewarded as FocusBatch grows.
Have a look around, ask a question, or share your first ruleset.
It's free while it grows. Real people, real help, real craft.
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