Copying script to open images

[tomczak]

Here is the situation:

I selected and opened five images. I want to process them the same way, but I'm not exactly sure what this way will be. So I experiment with the first image, set a stream of transformations for it which ends with Export. Now I want to copy the processing of the first image to the other four. Here is where I got stuck a bit trying to figure out what would be the easiest course of action

So far I figured that this can be done by:

a. Copy to Destination from the firsts stream to all the others, but this has to be done for each transformation five times - I can't figure out how to get the entire branch.

b. I was trying to copy script to each of the Open images, but I can only create a new stream and then would need to find those 5 images, but they are all in different folders and I would need to find them again.

c. Convert to Copy the first stream, then change the input image in Copy for each of the remaining images, but that has to be done one-by-one. Also, when I Converted to Copy, the first image was gone and needed to find it again. And if the stream starts with the Copy, I don't know how to convert it to Batch - but there is a way in Export: there is a Write File button. Still a bit of fiddling.

How can I streamline it? The only other thing I could think of is saving those chosen files somewhere, saving the script and then selecting them in File Open and running all that in a batch, but I was thinking that there may be a way of persuading the images that are already open to comply with my will...

[tomczak]

This is how it looks like. I ended up with the Copy option and Write File button in Export for each image in turn - there were only five for this job.

[jsachs]

The easiest way is not not open the other four until you are ready. Then use the Clone Entire Branch command. It will ask you for a new pathname, open the file, and then copy all the transformations below it.

Or, if you don't want to replicate all the transformations, you can double click the File Open and append the other four pathnames to the file list. Then by moving the red dot to an image you want to process and clicking OK, that image will be opened and processed. Then you could turn this into a batch operation if you add an Export.

Finally, if you want to use images that are already open, you could convert the File Open to and Input and then redirect the input to one of the other images.