AfPhoto: Macro for changing resolution

[jweitzel]

Hello out there!

For an exhibition catalog, I need to edit several dozens photographs of different size. Now I have tried to set up a macro in AfPhoto, which should only change the resolution of the images (but not their absolute pixel size) and convert them to aRGB.

Now I realize that in the macro not only the new resolution is applied to the new image - but all subsequent images are also given the pixel size of the first image! Although I made sure to de-activate the “recalculation” checkbox in the size/resolution dialogue when recording the macro. Therefore the pixel counts are grayed out – and should be ignored while erecording the macro (as it is done in PSD...).

Is this another one of the Affinity development team's tricks?
How do I get a macro that simply changes the image resolution but not the size?

 

Thanks and best wishes!
Johannes

[carl123]

9 minutes ago, jweitzel said:

Now I realize that in the macro not only the new resolution is applied to the new image - but all subsequent images are also given the pixel size of the first image!

Yeah, it broke in a distant update and was never fixed

@John Rostron wrote some macros using a version that worked which should still work today

Add to your Library panel then test and see if they are OK

 

Change DPI 1.6.afmacros

[walt.farrell]

15 minutes ago, jweitzel said:

Is this another one of the Affinity development team's tricks?
How do I get a macro that simply changes the image resolution but not the size?

As far as I know you would record the macro using Affinity Photo 1.6. A bug was introduced in 1.7 that broke the handling of the Resample toggle in the Resize dialog for macros.

Try these: 

 

 

[jweitzel]

Many, many thanks to both of you!

I still had the thread you quoted in the back of my mind. But I find it a bit frustrating that nothing more has happened since then. They rather realize a "inverting spectral filter" or “walking on the moon”, which the community needs once a year. It seems to me (not for the first time) like a drilling machine where the development team is working on the 16-speed hydro gearbox, but the electrical plug always falls out of the socket by itself - but they have no time to fix it.

I'm so sorry...

Johannes

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, jweitzel said:

...I need to edit several dozens photographs of different size. Now I have tried to set up a macro in AfPhoto, which should only change the resolution of the images (but not their absolute pixel size) and convert them to aRGB.

Maybe I am missing something. You want the 1200 x 900 pixel image to be 1200 x 900 pixels after conversion, correct? Why do you need to change the DPI/PPI?

You can run a batch job to change them to sRGB, no need for a Macro.

[jweitzel]

I am currently preparing the typesetting (and print) of a catalog of an artist's works. For me, this includes image processing, in the course of which I prepare the material to 300 dpi (delivered from the cameras as 72 or 144 dpi) and AdobeRGB. In terms of resolution, it is therefore a matter of setting this to 300 dpi WITHOUT changing the absolute pixel dimensions.

I have no interest in declaring any of those work steps superfluous or similar at this point. Some days ago I just have learned that AFPub is not even able to correctly convert a 4c document with process black text into an other 4c color profile without losing the black.

Best wishes to you, Bruce!
Johannes

[walt.farrell]

FYI, the bug tag for this problem is AF-990. It would be good of them to fix this in V2.

[jweitzel]

Hello Walt, I am always impressed of your knowledge!

At my company, they had a small, young team to program the software themselves (media & publishing branch). The software was supposed to map all production processes, all administration, correspondence and even great parts of the warehousing. I was one of the people who had reservations and advised buying a commercial solution “off the shelf”. But the boss forced it through. Productivity dropped to what felt like 50%, and cries of despair and curses could be heard from every office. And the bug list or to-do list grew longer by every hour. After about 1.5 years, there were several thousand of bug items in the queue. But then came the decisive solution from the management team! The entire bug list was declared null and void, as no one would have been able to work through it anyway and no one would have been able to prioritize it. And everyone was asked to report bugs - if they found any.

That's how effective management works!

 

[carl123]

16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

FYI, the bug tag for this problem is AF-990. It would be good of them to fix this in V2.

This was a regression; it should have been fixed a long time ago

Unless there's a reason for it, they are not telling us

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Resample tickbox ignored and always true when recording a macro" (REF: AF-990) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2900). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.