Phatch = PHoto & bATCH! - new forum threads

lossless save after lossless rotate?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:23:46 +0000

I am trying to convert to Linux as much as possible, and I am excited about using Phatch in my photo processing (I am an amateur photographer). One of the steps in my workflow is to run a batch action on all my downloaded photos to do a lossless autorotate based on exif orientation. Doing this in IrfanView Thumbnails results in a file size exactly the same as the original (i.e. no loss in quality). With Phatch, I assumed I would not add a Save action after the lossless rotation because this would result in a loss in quality. But running the lossless rotation action by itself results in a file with 0 bytes. So I added a Save metadata action, but that still resulted in a 0 byte file. Adding a Save action gives me an output file that is rotated, but the quality setting in the Save action results is applied to the saved file, with resulting loss.

Is there a way to apply the lossless rotation and losslessly save the result?

File Name: invalid syntax

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:30:27 +0000

When I try to save a file whit a number appended, (for example: image2.jpg), I get the error: File Name: Invalid syntax (, line 1)
Is it a bug? if so, how could I fix it?.

Thanks in advance.

Color to Alpha works strange

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:54:04 +0000

I convert ICO files to PNG and choose "Color to Alpha" to make black color transparent (by the way, it is bad that image saver does not respect original ICO transparency values).
When image is saved, black color becomes 100% transparent, but other colors become semi-transparent to different degrees. Am I doing something wrong?

File Format of Intermediate Images

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:35:54 +0000

Hello *,

does Patch use any kind of intermediate images between all single steps? If so, what kind of file format is used?

So, to say it the other way round: If the input file is an JPEG, will every single action produce a new JPEG with all its quality loss?

Regards
sc911

Splitting Images

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:32:21 +0000

Hello *,

is it possible to split an image into two? So I would like to resize a batch of images to one size and then save this images as two parts one for the left half and one for the right halft.
It can be done by running three different scripts: the first one does the resizing, the other ones are croping the canvas using left and right align.
But:can this be done unsing only one script?

Regards
sc911

EXIF tags not keeped when resizing image

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:12:58 +0000

Hello,

I have created a simple phatch action list like this:
- resize (to 1024x1024 keeping proportion)
- save (to _phatch folder)

It works but it seems that some EXIF metadata is not copied from the initial file to the processed one. In particular the "Exif.Canon.0x0095" one which I use to access to the Lens information (obviously on a Canon camera).

Is this a normal behaviour?

I'm using Debian squeeze version 0.2.7, and I have the same problem when reading the tags with the phatch Inspector or another tool (geeqie for example).

ps : phatch is a nice tool, thanks for the job done.

EXIF tags not keeped when resizing image

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:54:15 +0000

sorry, this post is not in the correct section of the forum - i have recreated it in 'support', you can delete this one

Hello,

I have created a simple phatch action list like this:
- resize (to 1024x1024 keeping proportion)
- save (to _phatch folder)

Is this a normal behaviour?

I'm using Debian squeeze version 0.2.7, and I have the same problem when reading the tags with the phatch Inspector or another tool (geeqie for example).

ps : phatch is a nice tool, thanks for the job done.

Conditioned batch processing

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:43:05 +0000

[Attention: natively speaking german]

Hi @ all!
First of all: Thank you very much for creating such a intuitive, usable and well-designed software!

As far as I can see, phatch ist able to process a bunch of files by one action list.
Having to create two seperate action lists for each image orientation and having to select the right images among those in my folder led me to the question: Why can't phatch determine, whether the image ist portrait/landscape oriented and process the action list belonging to this orientation?

If you generalize, you get the following two possible ways to do conditioned batch processing:

1) MULTIPLE ACTION LISTS
Explained by an example:
You set up some action lists.
You set up conditions to be checked each time before processing the next image.
You associate the result of condition checks to an action list, that should then be performed on the current image.
Yet, if there are many conditions on just one parameter, there is much redundancy, because other steps in all actions lists are the same. Additionally, there is the danger of creating more or less condition results than action lists - this should be avoided by the software itself.

2) ONE ACTION LIST
At each step, you can define one or more conditions under which it is activated or under which it should have an certain value.
You get problems, if you want apply very different actions on few conditions. There ist much redundant work for the user.

Conditions could be: File size, Image orientation, color space,…after all: each property of an image you can read out by software.

I hope you understand the things i suggest above; if not, feel free to ask.

What do you think about this? I thnik this would enormously extend the possibilities of Phatch and still preserved the thought of creating a image batch processing software.

Problem installing linux opensuse Phatch

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Hello everyone

I just installed opensuse Phatch in and nothing happens when I run
I find the following line when I run from the console:

surcouf@linux-r7nt:~> phatch Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/phatch", line 10, in  import phatch File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/__init__.py", line 25, in  init_config_paths() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/core/config.py", line 225, in init_config_paths from lib.fonts import set_font_cache File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/lib/fonts.py", line 53, in  sys.exit(_('Please install "%s" first.') % 'locate') NameError: name '_' is not defined

Does anyone see what's going on?

Saved action files don't load at startup nor available in recently used

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:06:11 +0000

This started a couple of weeks ago. Prior to that I could choose the action file I wanted from Recently Used. Now each time I want to run an action I need to navigate to where the file is saved and open it before it will load into Phatch.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Phatch 27.2

Has anyone else had this happen? Is there a fix for it?

Thank you,

Cannot create droplet under windows

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:53:06 +0000

Actionlist (scale->save) works fine interactively, but I'd like to set up a droplet on a user's windows system.

I've not run into this on Linux, so wondering if I botched something with the install…

using old phatch files

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:01:22 +0000

I recently upgraded my OS and phatch was upgraded along with it. now the phatch files that I had set up to do specific jobs no longer are working saying "Sorry, the action list seems incompatible with Phatch 0.2.7." Is there any way to recover these files?

Working with .svg files

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:13:01 +0000

I'm new to Phatch and I tried this with both the Mac and Linux versions. I want to desaturate a number of .svg files but what seems to happen is, Phatch converts them to .png files and they lost their transparency. Is there a way around this?

thanks

Process JPG only

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:11:40 +0000

I am using the following from an action i created but it trys to convert everything in the folder. How do I specify to ONLY covert jpg?

phatch -cv resize.phatch "/path/to/folder name"

thanks

SCALE - Canvas long side

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:24:57 +0000

hi
i would like to suggest a new and very useful feature for SCALE action: Canvas Long Side: N pixels, where N is the desired size. This way we can resize images based on the longest side, not only width or only height.
thanks

JPEG without loss: cut 2 pixel from the height of a pic

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:21:25 +0000

I'm trying to cut an horizontal line of 2 pixel from the height(from the bottom) of some images using these parameters:

Selecting only 1 pixel cutted from the bottom I get cutted a line of 2 pixel from the height and a line of 1 pixel cutted from the width! I don't know why this happens???

I need to cut images from 642x480 pixel to 640x480 pixel: how can i do?

Thanks!

TIF compression does not work + other newbie questions

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:15:15 +0000

I put my first action together: saving a JPG camera image to a b/w tif file with g4 compression (which is "CCITT Fax 4" compression in IrfanView, isn't it?) to get really small file sizes.

After different troubles (forgot to restart Windows after setting path environmental variable and had problems with phatch starting from batch file: "Error 6 Handle invalid") I got my first picture converted. But Irfan says my file has no compression. The size is actually about 1M. With Irfan's CCITT Fax 4 it is about 80K.

What did I do wrong?

Log says:
"Warning 0:Subprocess "tiffcp"
input:
['D:\\Config\\-Standalone\\-path\\tiffcp.exe', 'c:\\dokume~1\\arbeit\\lokale~1\\temp\\tmp_avlow', '-c', u'g4', u'D:\\Finanzen\\2009\\PB015485.tiff']
output:
TIFFOpen Error: -c: Cannot open

Action:{'fields': {'As': u'tiff',
'File Name': u'',
'In': u'',
'JPEG Quality': u'85',
'JPEG Size Maximum': '0 kb',
'JPEG Size Tolerance': '10 kb',
'Metadata': 'yes',
'PNG Optimize': u'yes',
'Resolution': u'',
'Show Type Options': 'no',
'TIFF Compression': u'g4',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Save'}

None
*"

Python says:
"Error: Directory Makernote with 18761 entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Failed to read Makernote, rc = 6"

I use Phatch 0.2.7 with Python 2.5 (Dependencies py25 package) in Windows XP SP3.

I also wonder how to get/install exiftran if I want to apply lossless rotation for windows. I didn't find any Windows binaries. Phatch says: "you need to install 'exiftran' first".

And how do I get rid of the three windows confirming "Drag & Drop", "File Manager" and "Ready!" (with "Show log" etc.) (or similar, translating from german) to get batch actions without any queries? :)

Phatch seems to be very promising as GUI besides command lines of ImageMagick et al. Thanks for Your work.

using phatch 0.2.4.1 I cannot rename the file according to date and hour

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:43:52 +0000

Error 0:Arquivo indisponível para abrir: /home/je/Desktop/0-2010-09-20_15-54-24.jpg:
Unable extract variables from file:/home/je/Desktop/0-2010-09-20_15-54-24.jpg:
Key must be of type string

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/api.py", line 489, in get_photo
photo = pil.Photo(info_file, info_not_file)
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py", line 464, in init
layer.image)
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py", line 214, in init
raise Exception(message)
Exception: Unable extract variables from file:/home/je/Desktop/0-2010-09-20_15-54-24.jpg:
Key must be of type string

A quick tutorial

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:15:44 +0000

I've put this tutorial on my website: www.landymann.co.uk direct link http://tinyurl.com/39afloc

David

Images optimized for web sites

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:49:52 +0000

I'm developing a website based on photos.
I need to optimize loading time and I need to elaborate many photos so I'm using this sw.

Saved Action Lists script "Repo"?

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:13:12 +0000

Is there a site or area/repo with a collection of user submitted Action List .phatch files?

I am sure what I am creating has been done before and not a fan of reinventing the wheel. Plus nice to see what others are doing with it.

Difficulty installing Phatch

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:41:50 +0000

Hello,

I am unsure if this is a good place to ask for assistance, but I am having difficulties running Phatch.
In fact, at the moment Phatch does not run anymore at all. The application is there, under Graphics, however when clicked, the hourglass shows for about a minute, then disappears and nothing happens. One day it just stopped running.

I checked in System Monitor and see no Phatch process.
I have tried un-installing it, then re-installing, both through the Ubuntu Software Center, and through the Phatch website, getting the Debian packet, and nothing gives.
Now I resize my pictures one by one with Gimp… no more batch conversions :-(

Could you offer any help?
I am relatively new to Ubuntu; have Karmic Koala.
If you need some more info to start troubleshooting, please let me know.

Thank you, I appreciate the potential help.
MuccaPazza

Watermark : offset + relative width

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:29:24 +0000

This is what I'm trying to do :
I had a batch of original photos, huge sized. I want to watermark them to upload high-quality versions with a logo in the bottom-right corner, and also have a smaller sized batch for regular websites.
I made my actionlists, including the watermark feature with the offset option.
But some of my photos are cropped, so not every one has the exact same size. Thus the png watermark logo seems to be relatively bigger or smaller depending on the original picture size.

A relative width option for the watermark, relative to global picture, on top of the offset option would be very nice.

change resolution preserving subfolder tree structure

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:40:09 +0000

Hi Support!

I'm writing because I try to change the resolution of many different png files contained in subfolders from a main, while preserving the original structure tree and overwriting files modified

is it possible whith Phatch?

many many thanks!!

davide
italy

Phatch not batching in Ubuntu 10.04

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:37:28 +0000

This Phatch program looks really good! But, so far when I've tried to batch 94 TIFF's as jpg's I always end up with only one jpg. I tried at least 3 times now. Even uninstalled and reinstalled Phatch.

Is this an operator error (me) or a bug?

Thanks

save BMP -> PNG colors are messed up - like inverted

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:01:10 +0000

Hi - i am trying to convert a bunch of bmp images to PNG and all the colors are messed up when I convert them using the SAVE feature.

I just tested converting to jpeg and even bmp to bmp. the result is always looking like it using wrong color table or something.

Any ideas? thanks.

Preselecting files on launch doesn't work anymore - Linux

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:48:26 +0000

Phatch was working great with Mint-8 (Ubuntu 9.10) but in Mint-9 (Ubuntu 10.04) the functionality seems to have changed. I am using Phatch 0.2.7-1 Mint-9 (Ubuntu 10.04). I used to select several files in the Gnome GUI and then right click to open with Phatch. This would then open Phatch with those files pre-selected. I would then select an action list to use. This does not work with Phatch 0.2.7-1 in Mint-9 (Ubuntu 10.04). I also tried from the command line and phatch shows a tab indicating the number of files being opened but dies without ever presenting even the screen splash. If I start Phatch with no arguments and then select an action list followed by selecting the files via the execution gear icon, functionality is normal. It is not an OS issue as preselecting the files in Image Inspector via the GUI or in command line with the -n option works correctly and all passed filenames are processed. It appears to be the absence of a passed action list that is preventing launch.

Has Phatch changed to no longer permit file selection without a pre-specified action list, a deliberate design change or is there a bug?

2 ways to file a bug is confusing

Sat, 29 May 2010 08:15:00 +0000

L.S.

website http://www.phatch.org/ has 2 ways to file a bug.

1. via the suppport button then you go to the site :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/phatch/+filebug

As far as I can tell, you only can file a bug, I do not see an overview of all filed bugs,
nor do I see my own filed bugs. (I only get a mail of it)

2. via the forum button and then select support, then you go to the site :
http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/c-23987/support

This site does show all the filed bugs etc.

Exif tags are writable

Fri, 28 May 2010 20:47:40 +0000

L.S.

try to use Phatch as an alternative to exiftool (specially the "vangnet" function)

To change the following Esif tags, but that was not allowed.
Exiftools does allow them, so they are writable

Error 0:Kan niet actie Tag Schrijven toepassen op beeld 'Me.jpg' in map:
/home/wil/Pictures

Tag "Exif_Image_Software" is niet schrijfbaar.

Action:{'fields': {'Tag (Exif, Iptc)': u'Exif_Image_Software',
'Value': u'TEST',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Write Tag'}

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/api.py", line 614, in apply_action_to_photo
photo = action.apply(photo, read_only_settings, cache)
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/actions/write_tag.py", line 49, in apply
info[tag] = value
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py", line 329, in setitem
self.assert_writable(tag)
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py", line 409, in assert_writable
raise NotWritableTagError(_('Tag "%s" is not writable.') % tag)
NotWritableTagError: Tag "Exif_Image_Software" is niet schrijfbaar.
*
Error 1:Kan niet actie Tag Schrijven toepassen op beeld 'Me.jpg' in map:
/home/wil/Pictures

u'Onmogelijk om tag "Iptc_Application2_Recordversion" weg te schrijven:\nInvalid dataset name ‘Recordversion\’'

Action:{'fields': {'Tag (Exif, Iptc)': u'Iptc_Application2_Recordversion',
'Value': u'2',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Write Tag'}

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/api.py", line 614, in apply_action_to_photo
photo = action.apply(photo, read_only_settings, cache)
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/actions/write_tag.py", line 49, in apply
info[tag] = value
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py", line 349, in setitem
% (_('Impossible to write tag "%s"') % tag, message))
KeyError: u'Onmogelijk om tag "Iptc_Application2_Recordversion" weg te schrijven:\nInvalid dataset name ‘Recordversion\’'
*

Vangnet

Fri, 28 May 2010 17:42:58 +0000

L.S.

created an action and made it a "vangnet".
It creates a medium size square on the desktop, which is (annoyingly) always on top.

However, when I drag a piciture into this square, is is not processed.
It is only processd when you drag it into the little grey top line which also contains the action name.

What about, making "vangnet" a normal sized icon with only the Phatch logo but containing the action name.
Let dragging a picture(s) or map over this icon and drop it work as "vangnet"

Kind Regards, Wil

Correct version number

Thu, 27 May 2010 14:49:25 +0000

L.S.

i downloaded Phatch with ubuntu 10.4 and got the version 0.2.7

When I go to http://www.phatch.org and download it there, it says the latest version is 0.1.6

Where am I going wrong ???

Error with "Blender" ...

Sun, 23 May 2010 19:17:50 +0000

Feature useful for photographers

Fri, 21 May 2010 11:27:49 +0000

It could extreamly help in visualy testing sharpness, distortion etc of the lenses.

Put selected EXIF information as text on the picture (Extend Text action with selected EXIF tags)
Put all images in a matrix (Let Matrix action combine all pictures in one, I dont find repeating same picture very useful)

That would allow photographers testing lenses to make a nice pipeline croping + marking aperture and exposure + combining into matrix.

I am really looking forward into that feature. I think a software has a potencial.

One more thing, would it be possible to have it integrated with nautilus ? So I can select files and through right click menu send it to phatch processor ?

Phatch dead slow

Wed, 19 May 2010 17:00:02 +0000

A while after I upgraded my Ubuntu to Lucid Lynx, I tried using phatch with a process that used to take a couple of seconds per image, and now it seems to take 5+ just to save each image.

The process boils down to resizing large jpg images to 800px, then applying a small watermark, then save the images in a subfolder of the original location.

This took unexpectedly a long time to complete, so I tried gradually removing steps until I was only left with a single save command. I have no clue why it takes so long to merely save an image; any hints would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex

Image name

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:58:43 +0000

hi,

I got a simple question : how to get the name of an image for use it in my script ?

And where I can get information about that ? I tried search on the PIL website but I didn't find where this information was.

thanks.

Changing case with rename?

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:20:16 +0000

I have some photos which have filenames and types in upper case, eg IMAGE.JPG I want to import them to an online photo site, but that site only sees lowercase file names and types.

Can I use the rename action to change the filetype from JPG to jpg?

I'm running Phatch 0.2.4 on Ubuntu 9.10

TIA

Unable to start phatch in Windows 7 x64

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:05:08 +0000

I installed all the dependancies (not the optional ones though) and I can't seem to be able to start phatch. pythonw.exe does nothing at all and python.exe brings this:
C:\Users\errietta>C:\Python25\python.exe C:\Users\erri
hatch-0.2.7.1.tar\phatch-0.2.7\phatch-0.2.7\phatch\app
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\errietta\Documents\Downloads\phatch-0
atch-0.2.7\phatch\app.py", line 234, in
main()
TypeError: main() takes exactly 2 arguments (0 given)
Any idea what's wrong?

Gamma scaling

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:50:13 +0000

Good reading, not only for devs but for everyone serious about his digital photography and everyone who enjoys understanding what (s)he uses:
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

Unable to save in 2 places

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:55:20 +0000

So I have an action list setup to:
copy originals
resize
save to "pictures" folder
save or copy to a backup folder.

The copy, resize, and first save into "pictures" works just fine. However, the last save and/or copy do not work correctly. Only one picture is saved into the last folder. It is always the last picture processed and comes out with the name of the first picture saved.
My saves/copies use the filename: <##Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal.year><##Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal.month><##Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal.day>_<###>

so it comes out (for example): 20090802_000.jpg every time with the actual image being the last image processed. If I cancel the action list midway, then it's a different picture than usual. Using phatch v 0.1.5 since I can't figure out how to make the same image names appear in the new phatch.

By the way, if I swap the save/copy at the end to saving to backup and copy to "pictures", then the backup fold works and "pictures" ends up with the single picture.

Aborted execution under Debian Squeeze

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:13:37 +0000

This is essentially filing a bug, but it seems that the bug tracker only supports the dev version, and I'm not using Ubuntu. So I guess this is the best place. I am running 64-bit Debian Squeeze/testing and got phatch from the standard repository; the version installed is 0.2.5-1.

I give in a very simple Action List: the only items are scale and save. Upon executing the window suddenly closes, and this is reproducible… meaning I effectively cannot use Phatch. I decided to run it from the terminal to get some feedback:

~$ phatch Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 524, in on_left_down self.close_popup() File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 462, in close_popup self.set_form_field_value(self.popup_item, value_as_string) File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 273, in set_form_field_value field.get_size(IMAGE_TEST_INFO, 100, label, AttributeError: 'FileSizeField' object has no attribute 'get_size' Error: Directory Unknown with 1546 entries considered invalid; not read. python: tiffcomposite.cpp:1141: virtual uint32_t Exiv2::Internal::TiffDirectory::doWrite(Exiv2::Internal::IoWrapper&, Exiv2::ByteOrder, int32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t&): Assertion `sv == d' failed. Aborted ~$

The first 8 lines, up to and including AttributeError are produced when specifying the JPEG quality.
The last four lines are caused upon execution. Note that I specified an absolute path under the "save" action item, because I would like to process 80 GB in over 200 directories; which I don't want on the same partition as the source, since it wouldn't fit. It might well work without specifying an absolute path beyond what phatch specifies; but I need to specify a different partition.

Medley of issues

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:24:36 +0000

In the contents side pane 'Developpers' has a typo: it should contain just 1 p. I saw it written like this elsewhere on Phatch-pages, too; maybe you can grep the pages to find them.

On the Contribute page, you might want to refer to the Extensions page as well.

After creating a wikidot account I still could'nt edit any page, is this correct? Or did I miss the 'edit this page' link/button?

The page that explains how to write actions,
http://photobatch.wikidot.com/writing-actions

states that the user place to store actions is

~/.phatch/actions/

whereas on my machine (Ubuntu9.10, installed via your ppa) it is

~/.local/share/phatch/actions/

Below 'Info and metadata', photo.get_info() should be used to look up info. But it is not clear where photo is obtained from. Should this be image.get_info()?
The save.py module in phatch/actions still uses photo.info()

Also, when I try to use photo.log in my action, I get an error that it is an unknown attribute. Could you please expand on this 'photo' object?

Likewise, how can a developer find out more about the 'image' object? It took me quite some time to find out that it has an attribute size.

Some more typos:

custom ReadFileField should be custom ProfileReadFileField
ImageReadFileField should be ReadFileField
*nver* should be *never*

The tutorial also mentions a web page at
http://trac.gbiloba.org/phatch
which is (still ?) unavailable (HTTP 404 error).

Finally, are user submitted extensions reviewed very, very carefully?
Because it would be very easy for some Evil Person to wipe out all the files of a user by executing a Python script, wouldn't it?

The user submitted action 'Conditional Transpose' does not work currently.
It wants to import an unknown function 'new' and defines an (IMHO) outdated function 'values' since the function condtitionaltranspose could just query image.size.

Best regards,

Roger

Feathering

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:47:36 +0000

Which I can do in Gimp - one at a time… :-(

I just started with Phatch yesterday - is wonderful.

Thanks
cal

Wrong exif data

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:54:16 +0000

Hi,

I use Phatch just to save photo in this format /dir/--/. But sometimes, photo are saved in a directory dis-according with exif data.

For example, i have a photo with this date in exif data (i use exif tool include in Phatch to read this) : sunday december 2009, but image is saved in directory 2007-1-28.

What's wrong ?

Icon Creation

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:40:10 +0000

Stani, I love your software. It has really saved me a ton of time. I am going to write software to automate Icon processing and would appreciate any input I can get from you.

I created a "Lava Theme Pack" for linux and used Phatch to convert the icons for resizing. You can read more about that here. My ultimate goal is to have a single scalable SVG Iconpack, is this possible in Phatch? Imagemagik is not cutting it and its SVG support is limited at best.

I did say I was going to write software; I have written a USplash Maker, a GDM Maker & XSplash maker Ultimate Edition Nautilus Scripts. I am eventually looking to write GUI themeing tools from top to bottom (totally automated). A icon conversion tool is next in line. I am looking to write a nautilus script mime typed to index.theme right click the icon theme file and Icon conversion tool is launched, user input for hex values of fore and back colors converted as user input as your colourise plugin does; output as svg. Recreation of index.theme.

Any pointers you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I thought I would let you know Phatch is included in Ultimate Edition 2.5 it has been released and is being enjoyed by many a user, including me ;)

Thanks & Merry Xmas,

TheeMahn

Vote it up on reddit!

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:24:38 +0000

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/afle2/phatch_photo_batch_processor_resize_in_bulk_more/

Also I'd like to thank the developer(s) for making this awesome application! It's one of the most useful picture-editing-related things I've ever downloaded. (I would donate if I had a job!)

Scale: specify only one dimension and have the other calculated automatically?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:24:06 +0000

Hi all

I'm resizing photos for a digital photo frame and they all have to be 600px high, but will have varying widths. I'd like to specify the height but have Phatch choose the width accordingly based on constrained proportions.

Is this possible?

Any help much appreciated :)

Drag and Drop when using droplet - possible to bypass?

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:31:06 +0000

When using Phatch as a droplet (view —> droplet), which is a great feature by the way, it is often convenient to drag images one at a time, for example when sorting, onto the droplet. The inconvenience is that every image dropped results in the 'drag and drop' dialog box appearing, allowing you to specify options and file types. Is it possible to tell Phatch to simply start - otherwise you have to click 'Batch' every time you drag and drop an image.

Also, is there any documentation for this dialog, I'm not sure what the option 'Repeat images' does!

Thanks for your help.

Action list in tutorial doesn't work with version Phatch 0.2.4

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:28:12 +0000

The action list for the "Rounded thumbs with 3d perspective and reflection "-tutorial (and possibly others) doesn't work with Phatch 0.2.4.

Can you please update those action lists.

Thanks

Install on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:08:38 +0000

Hi!

I found Phatch by googling, and I thought this was a very interesting tool - exactly what I was looking for… unfortunately I did not manage to install it on my iMac running on Snow Leopard 10.6.2.

I must admit I am very new to Phyton, and with the few instructions I found on the web site (1- install Phyton 2- install wxPython 3- install PIL and finally do pythonw phatch.py) it only generated lots of errors in a terminal window… After trying for a couple of hours, I gave up…

Any who can give me advice on how to get it installed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Claude

Remove Background

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:05:52 +0000

How do I remove anything less that 100% opacity from my images?

Transparent AND borderless AND position on desktop?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:14:10 +0000

I use linux (elive with e17 as desktop), and I was wondering if phatch can do this: a png with a transparent background, to be positioned at a certain spot, with no window decorations, i.e. borderless would be nice. Don't really need to tilt or anything (image already is). But most viewers/graphics editors (feh, display, qiv, ee) I've had or used only do 2 out of 3, and scripting to do all 3 gets out of hand. Do you think phatch could do it?

I have a dual screen setup but if I am able to position the image with the other attributes working even just on the primary display, I'd be glad to have that!

Remove Context Menu item in Ubuntu 9.10?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:24:27 +0000

Although I love Phatch, it really is a pleasant program to use, I don't really like that it added a Context Menu Item in my Nautilus menus….
Is there a way to remove this entry from the menu?

Maybe this could also be a feature request, the ability to choose in the preference if Phatch should add the Context Menu Item or not…

Trimming tags and other String Operations

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:53:53 +0000

I'm trying to use the tag as part of the filename, but only want to use the last 3 characters. Can I trim this tag via some python expression?

So, I want my filename to change from
myimage NIKON D90.jpg (where "NIKON D90" is the model)
to
myimage D90.jpg

Thanks.

Missing Action

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:03:00 +0000

I have quite a few actions available to me, but not the one I need. I cannot find Color to Alpha.

Got it running but ...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:58:41 +0000

I had to download a new version of one of the dependancies because it failed to install first time. However the DOS window reports "…\phatch\core\lib\formfield.py:272: Deprecation warning: Base exception.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6 self.message = message".

When the program runs other errors or warnings come up but it does at least do the watermarking successfully. I have not tried the others yet.

Advice welcome

Cannot run on Windows Vista

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:49:50 +0000

I believe I followed the instructions to the letter, but now when I double-click on the "phatch.py" icon, a black command prompt appears for a second, some text runs down it, then it closes, and nothing happens.

- One thing that may have impacted, is that, when installing wxPython, there was a checkbox at the end, which "changed all .py files to .pyc". I'm not sure if I should have left this checked, or if I should have changed phatch.py to phatch.pyc. -

If neither of those appear to be the answer, I'm keen to uninstall and re-install to try again - would the normal Windows "Add/Remove Programs" be applicable here, or would it be more in-depth?

Following the developpment

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:49:22 +0000

I've been looking for information on how trying the node editing branch, but found nothing. May be i missed it, but could somebody point me to any server (svn or so) or any archive i could download. Since i've talked about it a lot with stani even at LGM and RMLL this year, i would be really please to follow this and report as i can.

pygmee

New functionality idea

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:27:24 +0000

Hi everyone.

I'd like to explain my idea about what I miss in Phatch, but before I'd like to thank to everyone that contribute this great tool.

I mainly use Phatch to make a "copycat" version of /images folder, into a /light_images folder. Why? I use it to quickly see my photos from other computers in my network. You know, WiFi, Disk, 10Mpix photos,…everything counts to slow every picture load.

So that, from my 50% photos folder, I can quickly run F-Spot, Picasa or whatever visor very well.

I'd like Phatch to "detect" that new photos have been loaded into my /images folder, and automatically resize and copy them to /light_folder.

Would be possible? Useful? It least, YES to me.

Thanks
Regards,
^_Pepe_^

Only a handful of actions showing in the "add to" list

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:25:49 +0000

Hi,

I am running OSX 10.5 and have found that only a handful of actions appear in the GUI add to list - whereas I see a lot more in the actions folder.

How do I get to use all actions?

BTW, I notice there is no crop.py - should there be?

Many thanks.

Exif image orientation, EOS 450D

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:49:33 +0000

Hi!

Phatch seems to ignore EOS 450D EXIF image orientation… So I wanted to check if phatch is supposed to be able to understand image orientation or if I should make a feature request :)

//DGnome