This is from Gus Mueller, who writes my favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn (https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/). I've reported a bug to Gus and received a new build with a fix within minutes. I highly recommend his software, even his pizza-themed blog http://maybepizza.com/ which includes a nerdy pizza dough recipe generator.
I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing integration with more complicated workflows (e.g., upload the processed images or put them in a specific Photos app album or something).
I have a feeling Retrobatch could export Automator actions if it wanted to. I think they’re distributed as part of an application?
Unfortunately I think Automator is on the way out. I suspect we’ll see Shortcuts for Mac fairly soon, so it may make sense for FM Software the wait for that.
I'm curious if you can make a recommendation for a good image viewer/organizer app. That's the main thing I was hoping for when I saw your Acorn recommendation.
I just used this to build a really neat little workflow. Wasn’t sure if it would work but the results were amazing.
The workflow took company logos and turned them into squares, in a specified size, with the logo in black, the background in white, 20% padding around the edge, and png-crushed. They looked fantastic at the end.
Steps like flat background colour removal just worked. Transparency handled fine. Pretty intuitive.
Only minor gripes would be I found a few images that crashed it. Resaving them as other formats fixed that. And the UI for manipulating the workflow step connections is a bit fiddly.
Make sure to send me the images that crashed it (support at flyingmeat.com)! I'd love to get that fixed, as I'm not aware of any cases right now where this happens.
One feature that would get me interested would be good ML upscaling. Pixelmator Pro does a good job of it, but has no batch processing until I figure out how to drive it with Automator. And as far as I know ImageMagick still lacks such a feature.
[+] [-] rgovostes|5 years ago|reply
I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing integration with more complicated workflows (e.g., upload the processed images or put them in a specific Photos app album or something).
[+] [-] danpalmer|5 years ago|reply
Unfortunately I think Automator is on the way out. I suspect we’ll see Shortcuts for Mac fairly soon, so it may make sense for FM Software the wait for that.
[+] [-] fouc|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] refresher|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] danpalmer|5 years ago|reply
The workflow took company logos and turned them into squares, in a specified size, with the logo in black, the background in white, 20% padding around the edge, and png-crushed. They looked fantastic at the end.
Steps like flat background colour removal just worked. Transparency handled fine. Pretty intuitive.
Only minor gripes would be I found a few images that crashed it. Resaving them as other formats fixed that. And the UI for manipulating the workflow step connections is a bit fiddly.
[+] [-] ccgus|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] leejoramo|5 years ago|reply
https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/
[+] [-] natch|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] WordSkill|5 years ago|reply