Editing a group of photos

[Tom Burlison]

I would like to know if I can edit a large group of photos. I'd like to place them all (say 50+) in a folder and have Photoshop automatically open the images, auto adjust the levels of the photos under the Image menu, resize them from 1600x1200 to 500x375 and save and close the image. If I can do this could anyone tell me how? Also, there are other things I'd like to do if possible, like add a layer to each photo with a specific title (i.e. PHOTOS - July 2003) from another Photoshop file during the whole auto adjustments phase. I found something similar in the automate option in Photoshop 7, but can't figure out how to do what I want. Thanks for your help.

[Mac McDougald]

Record an action, doing what you want to one image.
Then you play the action back on entire folder of images to do the same
thing. (Automate/Batch).

Note that they'll all need to be the same size/orientation to begin with
for the action to have same affect on all of them.

Mac