Photo Macro Recorder - "export element" cannot be recorded

[Lolu]

Hi,

i need to export ("save as") a photo automated, within a macro.

Trying to record a macro when i choose the "export"-function there comes a popup-window saying that recording the "export"-function is not possible.

Is there another way to automate the export-function? (i don´t mean an individual template within the "export"-dialog)

In Photoshop it´s quise easy to use the "save as..." function within a macro (it´s even possible to include a document path...).

When editing a lot of images individually one by one it costs a lot of time to export each of them using the "export"-dialog.

Affinity-Team, please keep in mind that this is the only reason why i did not migrate from PS to affinty photo yet. (and i know it´s not only my problem...)

 

Best Regards,

Klaus

[John Rostron]

If you use a batch job, you can use it to:

1. Open a file to edit;
2. Apply one or more macros;
3. Export to a named location and selected export parameters.

Would this do what you want?

John

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Lolu said:

In Photoshop it´s quise easy to use the "save as..." function within a macro (it´s even possible to include a document path...).

Photoshop includes extensive scripting support in addition to conditional actions. Currently, Affinity Photo supports neither one. As you have discovered, its macro recorder is quite limited in what it does support, which is considerably less than even the omission of simple conditionals would suggest.

There have been a few improvements to the macro recorder in the more recent 1.7 customer betas, mostly for controlling scaling & placement on playback, but it still has a long way to go before it comes close to equaling even the basic functionalities of Photoshop automation.

[ziplock9000]

I've seen a lot of people asking this same question and being side-tracked with "Use the batch job". But that is not answering the issue at all, but instead a slightly related topic.

People are NOT asking about batch functions, if they were, they would be asking about Photoshop's batch functions not specifically Macro support for export.

This problem has been known from at least 2017 and we are now approaching 2021. These sort of things can be game breakers until the native file format of AP becomes directly usable to other applications that need to load in image files.