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Retrobatch – flexible batch image processing for Mac

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Post by firloop » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

Retrobatch – flexible batch image processing for Mac
flyingmeat.com

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Post by rgovostes » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 10:41 PM UTC

This is from Gus Mueller, who writes my favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn (https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/). I've reported a bug to Gus and received a new build with a fix within minutes. I highly recommend his software, even his pizza-themed blog http://maybepizza.com/ which includes a nerdy pizza dough recipe generator.

I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing integration with more complicated workflows (e.g., upload the processed images or put them in a specific Photos app album or something).

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Post by WordSkill » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 12:53 AM UTC

Fine software, fine company.

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Post by leejoramo » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 3:08 AM UTC

Could this FINALLY replace Graphic Converter? Probably not on the number of image formats covered, but it does look very promising otherwise.

https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/

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Post by refresher » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 3:23 AM UTC

rgovostes wrote: post #2

This is from Gus Mueller, who writes my favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn ( https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ ). I've reported a bug to Gus and received a new build with a fix within minutes. I highly recommend his software, even his pizza-themed blog http://maybepizza.com/ which includes a nerdy pizza dough recipe generator. I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing inte…

Does Acorn have a ‘content aware fill’ type feature?

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Post by rgovostes » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 4:27 AM UTC

refresher wrote: post #5

rgovostes wrote: post #2

This is from Gus Mueller, who writes my favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn ( https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ ). I've reported a bug to Gus and received a new build with a fix within minutes. I highly recommend his software, even his pizza-themed blog http://maybepizza.com/ which includes a nerdy pizza dough recipe generator. I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing inte…

Does Acorn have a ‘content aware fill’ type feature?

I don’t think so. Most effects are done through Apple’s CoreImage filter API, but content-aware fill doesn’t quite fit that mold. I would like to see this as well.

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Post by fouc » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 5:23 AM UTC

rgovostes wrote: post #2

This is from Gus Mueller, who writes my favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn ( https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ ). I've reported a bug to Gus and received a new build with a fix within minutes. I highly recommend his software, even his pizza-themed blog http://maybepizza.com/ which includes a nerdy pizza dough recipe generator. I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing inte…

I'm curious if you can make a recommendation for a good image viewer/organizer app. That's the main thing I was hoping for when I saw your Acorn recommendation.

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Post by refresher » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 5:41 AM UTC

rgovostes wrote: post #6

refresher wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Acorn have a ‘content aware fill’ type feature?

I don’t think so. Most effects are done through Apple’s CoreImage filter API, but content-aware fill doesn’t quite fit that mold. I would like to see this as well.

Alright, thanks for the reply. I've not found Affinity Photo or Pixelmator's to be that great, at least compared to the paint.net plugin I was using on Windows, so was hoping for an alternative.

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Post by natch » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 6:05 AM UTC

One feature that would get me interested would be good ML upscaling. Pixelmator Pro does a good job of it, but has no batch processing until I figure out how to drive it with Automator. And as far as I know ImageMagick still lacks such a feature.

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Post by danpalmer » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 10:02 AM UTC

I just used this to build a really neat little workflow. Wasn’t sure if it would work but the results were amazing.

The workflow took company logos and turned them into squares, in a specified size, with the logo in black, the background in white, 20% padding around the edge, and png-crushed. They looked fantastic at the end.

Steps like flat background colour removal just worked. Transparency handled fine. Pretty intuitive.

Only minor gripes would be I found a few images that crashed it. Resaving them as other formats fixed that. And the UI for manipulating the workflow step connections is a bit fiddly.