Spike Photography Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) I'm new to Infinity although I used to use Serif Page Plus from the very first version years ago. Great to find a suite of one-time purchase design and editing programs - I've bought all three - that I can use on my new MacBook Pro. Although searching through Help and the forum, I am having trouble finding out how to SAVE a Batch Process set of instructions. Do I really have to set it up from scratch each time I want to run it? Also I can't seem to reduce the size of a mix of landscape and portrait photos without one dimension being squashed - I do have the A for Aspect ticked and have tried putting the same number in each of the W and H windows. I have also tried W/2 and H/2 as suggested in the boxes which didn't work for me and also 50%. Please can you tell me what I'm missing or doing wrong? Edited August 9, 2020 by Spike Photography Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aad Slingerland Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Sounds like you need to have a look at the Macro option in A.F. Macro's can be recorded and saved. Once a macro has been saved it can be selected in a New Batch Job. To show the available macro's (by installation) or made by you, you have to enable the Libary panel (Menu, View, Studio, Library) and you might as well enable the Macro panel at the same time (Menu, View, Studio, Macro). Spike Photography 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Photography Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) Thanks Aad, I had the Macro open to do a few things like auto contrast and unsharp mask - not sure why these aren't available by default though. I may have solved what I've done wrong in that I used Document>Resize Document to convert the 72dpi to 300dpi and it has applied a conversion to do a resize 3648W x 5742H @ 300dpi. Having used Lightroom since Version 1 in preference to my old way of batch processing in Photoshop, I miss the option to resize by the Longer Edge i.e. if you wanted a 12 inch x 8 inch photo @ 300dpi it was easy in LR to select 12 > inches and 300dpi in the processing export dialog. Edited August 9, 2020 by Spike Photography Add a screenshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aad Slingerland Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 You _can_ change the DPI setting of a document without changing other attributes by unchecking Resample. on the Resize Document window. Have Fun ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aad Slingerland Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 And oh yes, it's most unfortunate that Affinity Photo does not have a Visual Basic (alike) of scripting language. The product would become much more powerfull for automated workflow tasks IMHO. Spike Photography 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 11 hours ago, Spike Photography said: I have also tried W/2 and H/2 as suggested in the boxes which didn't work for me and also 50%. W/2 and H/2 will not work but w/2 and h/2 will work (i.e. use lowercase letters) 50% or any other percentage values will not work 11 hours ago, Spike Photography said: I am having trouble finding out how to SAVE a Batch Process set of instructions. Do I really have to set it up from scratch each time I want to run it? Yes, there is (currently) no way to save the settings for a batch process telemax 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 7 hours ago, carl123 said: W/2 and H/2 will not work but w/2 and h/2 will work (i.e. use lowercase letters) Bug? Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted August 13, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 13, 2020 Hi all, I've logged this with the developers to be looked at. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Photography Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 Thank you everyone, cheers Chris B Chris B 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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