I develop photos from my digital camera on my pc. I convert them from RAW to JPEG with SilkyPix.
I apply the parameters I wish and I'm nearly happy with the results. (They are in most cases
much better than the photos made with the automatic mode.) But there is still a little gap
for improvement and I found out that some XnView effects fit in this gap.
But I don't want to apply each effect to each foto manually.
I want to use a batch file for that.
But there is no way to tell XnView by command line what to do (and to use wildcards
for the different file(/photo) names).
Is there any way to get this done? While it's anoying to do this all manually.
In most cases I skip this step and try to be happy with results presented by
SilkyPix but it would be better to find a way to get this done.
In SilkyPix I avoid to much sharpness to reduce noise
and in XnView I have found a good way to sharpen the photos afterwards.
Without that they all look a little bit blurry. Can you help me?
applying effects with command line
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Re: applying effects with command line
Have you looked at NConvert?
NConvert provides command line access to XnView functions and some functions not yet supported by XnView. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.xnview.com/en/nconvert.html
NConvert documentation (limited) can be downloaded from the XnView Forum:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewforum.php?f=57
I believe that XnViewMP (beta 0.48 available for download) will also eventually provide a command line interface and replace several other products.
Chris.
NConvert provides command line access to XnView functions and some functions not yet supported by XnView. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.xnview.com/en/nconvert.html
NConvert documentation (limited) can be downloaded from the XnView Forum:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewforum.php?f=57
I believe that XnViewMP (beta 0.48 available for download) will also eventually provide a command line interface and replace several other products.
Chris.
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Re: applying effects with command line
I will give it a try. Seems to be exactly what I am looking for.
If I remember correctly I have tried NConvert already in the past without getting it to work. What's why I forgot it perhaps. Thanks anyway!
If I remember correctly I have tried NConvert already in the past without getting it to work. What's why I forgot it perhaps. Thanks anyway!
Re: applying effects with command line
I turned to NConvert very reluctantly recently because I had almost no command line experience and it was the only XnView program to support multi-page TIFFs. With perseverance and probably considerable luck I managed to get results, and have actually found that using the command line can have some benefits.
If you are asking for a command line interface you probably have more experience than I started with. One thing that confused me at first was the fact that NConvert can be run in several ways, some of which didn’t work as I expected. The way I now use is to put nconvert.exe in a folder with a batch file containing the nconvert script, and then run the batch file.
One issue I had when I started was that I was using Notepad with word-wrap enabled, and found that I was sometimes getting an extra space inserted at the end of lines, which the parser won’t tolerate.
I would suggest taking a very simple script from the documentation and running it as described above. Beyond that it is a matter of poring over the limited documentation and trial and error, if you have time.
One advantage of using the command line with a batch file I found is that it is possible to use DOS commands (Windows cmd.exe) in the same batch file to do other things at the same time, such as create folders to contain the nconvert output. More poring over manuals and trial and error…
Good luck!
Chris.
If you are asking for a command line interface you probably have more experience than I started with. One thing that confused me at first was the fact that NConvert can be run in several ways, some of which didn’t work as I expected. The way I now use is to put nconvert.exe in a folder with a batch file containing the nconvert script, and then run the batch file.
One issue I had when I started was that I was using Notepad with word-wrap enabled, and found that I was sometimes getting an extra space inserted at the end of lines, which the parser won’t tolerate.
I would suggest taking a very simple script from the documentation and running it as described above. Beyond that it is a matter of poring over the limited documentation and trial and error, if you have time.
One advantage of using the command line with a batch file I found is that it is possible to use DOS commands (Windows cmd.exe) in the same batch file to do other things at the same time, such as create folders to contain the nconvert output. More poring over manuals and trial and error…
Good luck!
Chris.
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Re: applying effects with command line
Thank you!
I don't get NConvert to work - again (and I ask in the NConvert-forum how to get it working).
Meanwhile I found another solution which fits me better (temporarely): "XnConvert".
It's a good program which at least I'm able to handle (and that counts at moment).
You are right if you guess that I'm not unfamiliar with the good old "command line".
It's a little bit very old school. But in this case it makes sense for me.
Put all RAW-files in one folder, click on a batch file and get fine JPEG files out of it.
The problem is that Silkypix doesn't have a command line (but a batch processing option)
and similar to this is the behaviour of XnConvert. It's not what I'm looking for, I would prefer
to get it done by one single click, but this works somehow too. Maybe I'll find a better solution
for that later. And I guess you are right: in my opinion NConvert acts a little bit strange for
a command line tool. For example it "converted" a file 3 times without I'm told it so. I
guess that there are some bugs in it. - After all it's a question of time and so on,
what are you willing to spend... For example XnConvert has an export function for the parameters
to NConvert, but exactly this doesn't work (very well).
To get back to your suggestions: I took "a very simple script from the documentation and runned it",
but even that didn't work. I'm not really stupid. And after a few tries i started to look for another
possibility. - We will see!
I should look for the Notepad-crap-error. I really used it for this because it's default in Windows
for working on batch-files. If this is what's gone wrong this should be written somewhere in very
great letters. - Thanks anyway! Bye!
I don't get NConvert to work - again (and I ask in the NConvert-forum how to get it working).
Meanwhile I found another solution which fits me better (temporarely): "XnConvert".
It's a good program which at least I'm able to handle (and that counts at moment).
You are right if you guess that I'm not unfamiliar with the good old "command line".
It's a little bit very old school. But in this case it makes sense for me.
Put all RAW-files in one folder, click on a batch file and get fine JPEG files out of it.
The problem is that Silkypix doesn't have a command line (but a batch processing option)
and similar to this is the behaviour of XnConvert. It's not what I'm looking for, I would prefer
to get it done by one single click, but this works somehow too. Maybe I'll find a better solution
for that later. And I guess you are right: in my opinion NConvert acts a little bit strange for
a command line tool. For example it "converted" a file 3 times without I'm told it so. I
guess that there are some bugs in it. - After all it's a question of time and so on,
what are you willing to spend... For example XnConvert has an export function for the parameters
to NConvert, but exactly this doesn't work (very well).
To get back to your suggestions: I took "a very simple script from the documentation and runned it",
but even that didn't work. I'm not really stupid. And after a few tries i started to look for another
possibility. - We will see!
I should look for the Notepad-crap-error. I really used it for this because it's default in Windows
for working on batch-files. If this is what's gone wrong this should be written somewhere in very
great letters. - Thanks anyway! Bye!