Affinity Macros

[hsantini]

Hello,

Where can I get “Convert to 16 bit color” Macro for Affinity Photo 2??

Thanks,

Hector

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, hsantini said:

Where can I get “Convert to 16 bit color” Macro for Affinity Photo 2??

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

The phrasing of that question makes it seem as though you know that a macro of that name exists. As far as I know, it is not supplied as a default macro with any release/version of Affinity Photo.

You could certainly record a macro to do that, but if you have one already (say in Photo V1) then you could export it from there and import it into Photo V2. Or you could reinstall it from wherever you got it originally.

[BlueLiner]

As Walt said, it is easy enough to make, but here it is...

Convert to 16 bit.afmacro

[David in Яuislip]

How on earth does a simple macro like that end up as 380.31KB?
For a laugh I recorded the same thing in V1 and it's 488.637 
Then a Photoshop action which is 133 bytes

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I think there's room for improvement

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, David in Яuislip said:

How on earth does a simple macro like that end up as 380.31KB?
For a laugh I recorded the same thing in V1 and it's 488.637 
Then a Photoshop action which is 133 bytes

LOL! - What was the ~ the initial file/doc size for what you've recorded the macro with?

[David in Яuislip]

18 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

What was the ~ the initial file/doc size for what you've recorded the macro with?

800x600

Of course I am daft enough to then create a 20x20 image and re-record the macro - same size

[v_kyr]

19 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

800x600

Agreed that's somehow too much wasted file size space for such a saved conversion macro alone.

[BlueLiner]

8 hours ago, David in Яuislip said:

How on earth does a simple macro like that end up as 380.31KB?
For a laugh I recorded the same thing in V1 and it's 488.637 
Then a Photoshop action which is 133 bytes

� � � � � � � D � u � m � m � y � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 8 � - � 1 � 6 � b � i � t � � � � � � T E X T � � �  c o n v e r t M o d e � � �  C o n v e r t   M o d e � � � � � � � � � � � � � n u l l � � � � � � � D p t h l o n g � � �

I think there's room for improvement

Funny you say that.... I was taken aback when I saw that as well.

[walt.farrell]

11 hours ago, David in Яuislip said:

How on earth does a simple macro like that end up as 380.31KB?

My guess: It embeds the ICC profile you chose, so the macro can work on other systems that may not have that profile installed.

For a different example, a macro which merely selects a layer from the Layers panel is only 1KB.