markowolf

I have created kaleidoscope movies from macros using clipping masks. Macros will record replacing a single image into an Affinity photo file, but the file name and the folder location is hard coded in and can't be changed (in fact you can't see any detail at all). I found this out the hard way, so each time I want to create a new kaleidoscope I had to first create 360 prepared Affinity Photo files where the image I'm replacing is rotated by 1° (these are my sort of templates). I recreate the macro to place the image in the clipping mask, and then use that. As mentioned, in each Affinity file I rotate the image by 1° in a clipping mask which is an 1/8th of a pie. I then use another macro to duplicate the 1/8th pie to create a full circle. The 360 Affinity files are used in the batch process along with the macro for placing the image and the macro for duplicating the 1/8th pie. I save the resulting images as JPEGs as per the batch process panel.