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Thanks. I will give your way a go but it looks like it won't handle a mixture of landscape and portrait in one batch. I found an alternative which is to: 1. Use the batch screen and set the size constraints in the W,H fields. Affinity will limit the width or height to the longer dimension and adjust the other proportionally. Any pre-resize macros can also be executed at this time. Save to a non-lossy format. 2. Use the batch screen a second time applying the sharpen step (macro). Save to your format of choice.

I'm trying to use Viveza 2 and the Viveza preview colors aren't the same as the original image even if I hadn't made any modifications. Example attached.

The scenario is this: I have a folder with full-size landscape and portrait images I want to resize to max of, say, 800 width or 800 height for portrait). In addition, after the resize, I'll want to run additional sharpening. I've usually done this with a batch script in PS but the batch capability in affinity appears to preserve both dimensions recorded instead of applying only the value I changed. For example, I record a macro: change x dim=800 (affinity changes y dim to 640), sharpen. When I apply the macro to an image with slightly different proportions, it resizes it to the same 800x640 instead of fixing 800 and recalculating 640 for the new image proportion. I guess what I'm really looking for is resize using constraints. An 800x800 constraint would limit the long side to 800 and recompute the shorter side accordingly.