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Hi

I am doing all my macros easily with photoshop but could not achieve the same with affinity
for web responsive design I want to :

- resize to w :4000px / h  auto -> save in folder   4000px

- resize to w :2500px / h  auto -> save in folder   2500px

- resize to w :1250px / h  auto -> save in folder   1250px

- close and not save modifications for the orignal photo

I even cannot try it because the button save as is not active

thanks for helping

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You don't need a macro to do this, which is just as well because macros do not support save/save as/export functions. A batch job will do what you want.  Create your output filder, then select File > New Batch Job and enter your parameters like this:

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thank you but can you save and run later the batch  for  all the photos in a folder, I do that job very  often and I want to run this automaticly

and I dont find the way to generate 3 files from the original one and export them in 3 different folders , or rename them differently : file-1x.jpg,  file-2x.jpg,  file-3x.jpg, 

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1 hour ago, erickb said:

and I dont find the way to generate 3 files from the original one and export them in 3 different folders , or rename them differently : file-1x.jpg,  file-2x.jpg,  file-3x.jpg, 

You can create all 3 sizes (4000px, 2500px,1250px) in the Export Persona and specify the folder for each (named 4000px, 2500px,1250px) and if you want them to have different file names you can do that also

Once set up you can then save your settings as an Export Persona Preset.

Then each time you want to do it just load the preset and export the slices all at once and into the right folders, which will be created automatically for you (if they don't exist already)

 

The above can not be done in a batch file for all photos in a folder so I would tend to do it when I complete each photo for a website (such as header.jpg, footer.jpg etc)

 

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'Save as' or 'export' are some of the most useful features of photoshop actions. I used to leave an action running over night an a folder full of eps files, when working on catalogs, come into the studio the next day and there's a new folder full of flattened tiffs with drop shadows on a yellow background ready to place - really useful - 

Hopefully we'll get this with Affinity macros in the future  

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1 hour ago, Dazmondo77 said:

Hopefully we'll get this with Affinity macros in the future

Just had a play around with the batch job feature and it seems to work really well as you can assign macros and select format and destination and all that ACE!

Now if there was only something that worked like puppet warp or maybe a vastly improved version of the deform filter which we have already, then we'd be rockin' 

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On 3/4/2020 at 11:11 AM, John Rostron said:

You don't need a macro to do this, which is just as well because macros do not support save/save as/export functions. A batch job will do what you want.  Create your output filder, then select File > New Batch Job and enter your parameters like this:

2108192074_BatchProcess.png.2a19bce64ddef121a9ae44df148e321b.png

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new batch job select, where is that ??

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3 hours ago, fox22 said:

new batch job select, where is that ??

As I said in my message, File > New batch job

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8 hours ago, fox22 said:

new batch job select, where is that ??

Which Affinity app are you using? Batch jobs (& macros) are a feature of Affinity Photo so if you are using Affinity Designer you won't have it.

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Everybody who makes pictures for websites needs several dimensions, it's a very basic task.
If Affinity Photo can't do it with a macro  in a simple way, it means Affinity is not a Professional tool.
I paid for nothing. 

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5 hours ago, erickb said:

If Affinity Photo can't do it with a macro  in a simple way,

Have you checked the Export Persona? That's what provides the mechanism in Photo (and Designer) to let you export one document in several different sizes using one operation.

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