Adding a repetitive line on photos

[Angelique-van-Campen]

Hi all,

I initially planned to call it a watermark, but actually it's just a simple "coloured" line that will be visible and created with a macro and later using it as a batch on a selected amount of photos. I can create the macro. Tested it and it works. Then I copied the macro to library, so so far all OK I thought. The line which is a part of the macro is amber/orange but the colour doesn't really matter right now and is situated at the bottom of a screenshot. After I saved the macro, I close the screenshot and start the batch. All of that works too, but when the batch is completed I have on the selected screenshots a line as expected BUT not amber/orange but white! And that's then also my problem.... it should be a coloured line and not white, but what do I do wrong?

Thank you in advance for your time, reply and hopefully for me a solution.

 

Kind regards,

Angelique van Campen

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Angelique.

What technique did you use to create the line, and what steps did you record in your macro?

[firstdefence]

You could also upload the Macro or take a screen shot of the macro steps.

[Angelique-van-Campen]

Thanks for your replies. Ok, let me start to describe what I did.

1. Load a screenshot
2. Set the right colour I want
3. Created a macro using the rectangular tool. Click the Start recording button
4. I draw a square with the colour I've selected before.
5. Resize the rectangular shape
6. Click the Move Tool and move the rectangular to the bottom of the screenshot
7. Then I stop de recording and save it as untitled (see attached macro file)
8. I add the macro also to the Library
9. Then I close the screenshot, result empty Photo with no document
10. I reopen a screenshot and from the Library I start the macro and then the line is no longer coloured but white.

I know, I do something wrong. I also know that I'm not very handy with Photo yet, so excuse me if I did miss a step or that I completely forgot to follow this or that step. I also hope this answer your question and hopefully you fill see what or which step I've forgotten to give the line a colour, besides white! Instead of screenshots I made a small movie which is a bit easier to understand what and how I did it and how I ran into problems.

Untitled.afmacro

[walt.farrell]

29 minutes ago, Angelique-van-Campen said:

• Set the right colour I want
• Created a macro using the rectangular tool. Click the Start recording button
• I draw a square with the colour I've selected before.

I think you should change the order of that:

1. Start recording your macro.
2. Choose the Rectangle Tool.
3. Choose your color.
4. Then do the rest.

[Angelique-van-Campen]

Hi Walt,

Thank you for your reply, but I don't think the other way around as you suggest works, unless I do something wrong or do the wrong steps as you suggested. As you can see in the movie, I can't change the colour. When I've selected another colour, it returns back to the previous colour and a macro popup tells me that it can't record the fill function.

See attached movie.

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Angelique-van-Campen said:

do the wrong steps as you suggested.

You did not do the steps I suggested. At step 2 I did not say "draw a rectangle". I said "choose the Rectangle Tool". Then you select the color, then you draw the rectangle.

Sorry for not being clearer.

[Angelique-van-Campen]

No no Walt, perhaps it was just me not reading well, but most important, issue solved!Yes!

It works as I had in mind although it's a simple macro, it will save me later on when I fly and make all the screenshots a lot of work. Thank You for your assistance and help. Much appreciated!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome, Angelique