Tone mapping - "Please select an RGB pixel layer before entering HDR"

[Stolzy]

When I try and record a macro that includes Tone Mapping I always come across this error

 

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Please select an RGB pixel layer before entering HDR.

It works perfectly  otherwise, but trips over whenever I try to do the same operation whilst recording a macro.

 

I thought all operations were available to macros?

[Old Bruce]

HDR needs RGB in order to work, so... Do you have an RGB pixel layer selected? Not an image layer or any other kind of layer. And it has to be an RGB layer not Lab or Greyscale or CMYK.

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, Stolzy said:

I thought all operations were available to macros?

Only a subset of all operations can be used in AP macros.

[Stolzy]

14 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

HDR needs RGB in order to work, so... Do you have an RGB pixel layer selected? Not an image layer or any other kind of layer. And it has to be an RGB layer not Lab or Greyscale or CMYK.

Yes it's an RGB layer.  Like I said it works perfectly outside of recording a macro

8 hours ago, R C-R said:

Only a subset of all operations can be used in AP macros.

Is there any way to find out what parts of AP are inaccessible to macros?  Is tone mapping one of these?

[John Rostron]

43 minutes ago, Stolzy said:

Is there any way to find out what parts of AP are inaccessible to macros?  Is tone mapping one of these?

Yes, try it and see! It will help if you report in these forums that a particular method is inaccessible, as you have done.

John

[carl123]

1 hour ago, Stolzy said:

Is there any way to find out what parts of AP are inaccessible to macros?

Bear in mind the macros will often tell you that you can't do something when you can, if you do it another way

For example, dragging a layer in the Layers panel to another position will fail but if you use the menu commands to move it, it works

Always check if a menu command exists for what you want to do as these are more reliable and check on the forums if you want to do something (macro related) but can't as useful workaround have been posted before.

 

[Stolzy]

7 hours ago, John Rostron said:

Yes, try it and see! It will help if you report in these forums that a particular method is inaccessible, as you have done.

John

The problem being that the error message is bogus and has no relationship to accessibility or otherwise to macros.