HerrBill Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 Although, I no longer use Photoshop for editing but when I did, I do remember that it was possible to apply a single edit flow to multiple images. If I could apply this to Affinity Photo, it would save me considerable time. Does anybody know whether this is possible and if what the routine is? Quote
Old Bruce Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 There are some things like Adjustment Layers and Filters which can be recorded in a Macro then applied all at once to files. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
NotMyFault Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 While possible with many caveats in theory, this does not work well in Photo. While using Develop Persona: you can save presets for many of the sliders, but you must save several of them (no grouping possible), and Affinity often does not apply a preset even if it is shows as selected in UI (old bug). While in Photo Persona: You can save presets for many adjustment layers You can reord macros of edit steps. But this is far behind Adobe from the functionality and hampered by too many unfixed bugs. If you need to mass-edit Photos, look elsewhere. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected.
walt.farrell Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 20 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: While using Develop Persona: For Raw images processed with the Develop Persona, you can also set it to Develop to a Raw layer (not a Pixel layer), then immediately click Develop without making any changes. Then you can start recording a macro, and within the macro you can go back into the Develop Persona, make your changes, and click Develop again. Then, back in the Photo Persona, you can stop recording the macro, and save the macro into the Library. You can then apply that macro to other Raw images, either manually or via File > New Batch Job. But I agree that for mass editing, this is cumbersome. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
HerrBill Posted April 25, 2024 Author Posted April 25, 2024 Thanks Walt, but as you know I already have a macro recording of my edit flow which works fine. Unfortunately, when I run it in batch processing the final image is a merged one and does not save the individual layer steps to the final image which means I am unable to quickly apply fine tuning to the final image when necessary. This can be a bit of drag. I Presume there is no chance of Serif rectifying this? Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 25, 2024 Posted April 25, 2024 40 minutes ago, HerrBill said: Thanks Walt, but as you know I already have a macro recording of my edit flow which works fine. Unfortunately, when I run it in batch processing the final image is a merged one and does not save the individual layer steps to the final image which means I am unable to quickly apply fine tuning to the final image when necessary. This can be a bit of drag. I Presume there is no chance of Serif rectifying this? I have no idea how you created your macro, but the workflow I suggested won't have that problem. This assumes that you have the batch job output a .afphoto file, of course. If you output a a JPG, etc. The changes will be locked in. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
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