I'm trying to make a macro to use in the Photomator program to automate some photo editing.
Making many of them.
I have some of it working, but there's a button called Auto crop. It's not in any of the menu items and there's no keyboard command for it.
I've tried everything I can, but no matter what I do, it will not activate that button. and I've even tried adding in the word Auto Crop and it still does not find it.
I have tried recording and clicking on it and that did not work
is there some way I can make it, add this into the list so it will click on auto crop as part of this macro.
I can do this in another program but would like to be able to use this one and not have to run two different programs to do macros to run what I am doing.
Photomator is missing a lot of keyboard shortcuts they need to fix a lot of things in this.
Well, I spent another over an hour trying to get this, to click that one button and I have not been able to get it to do that at all.
I guess the next best solution would be, what it's doing is it's clicking on the auto straightening, of straightening, which is in the step, and then it's closing the window.
Is there some way I could tell it to not close this crop area window? That way I can just manually click on the auto crop. because with it closing now I have to open back up the crop window to then go in and click on it. Plus I want to keep it open because sometimes I want to crop it differently than the auto crop does.?
Did you try the Press Button action? Did you read the action's documentation on the link I provided? Did you want to try the move and click mouse action?
That took 10 seconds to write—not meant as a brag, but the link @Airy provided showed you exactly what needed to be done. Add the Click a Button action, use the Scan button to scan Photomator, and Auto Crop is in the list.
I've done that same exact thing and it does not work.
I have it doing the auto straighten first. What it's doing is it's doing auto straighten and then closing the crop area. Then when it gets to auto crop, nothing happens.
Here's a screen grab showing that I have that set up and what it actually does.
It runs, it does the auto-straightening, straightening, but then it shuts the crop window. Here I had to open the crop window back up and you could see auto crop was never selected and not done.
Try adding a pause after re-opening the window and before clicking the button—it takes a bit of time to register things for KM to find them.
If you can share your actual macro, I can install it here to test/debug, though maybe not until the weekend—use the Share button in KM with your macro selected, then select Share to KM Forum. A new post will open; cut everything there and close it, then paste into this topic.
Doing some more testing, if I run crop auto straighten and auto crop by itself, it works.
But when I have the other items added in before it, that seems to make it not work for some reason.
Looks like I have it working now. Thanks. It seems like it was needing a pause just in the right place.
I changed most everything over to button press But then I had to put the pause after the edit enhance button and that's what made it work.
I have a pause after the straighten as well, but I've turned that off and it works without that needing to be there so the The only pause needed to be after the edit enhance button. and for some reason that was messing it up. I've tested it on quite a few pictures now and it's working.
I don't do photo culling in advance. I basically I do it as I'm editing. if it's an image that I plan on keeping, I will give it five stars and then edit it. otherwise I won't even bother editing it.
So if it's a photo that I plan on editing, I can run this now. it'll give it the five stars does the auto enhancing, which is a great starting point for me to then edit it a little bit more the way I want. We shoot on the beach, so I have to do the auto straightening because I'm constantly shooting with horizons in the background. and then the auto cropping I think is working fantastic. Sometimes I might have to crop in a little bit more, but overall it's doing a great job with the auto cropping. and by leaving the window open, then I can crop in more if I want. but also, like here, I can grab the picture, even though it's cropped in, and move it over a little bit to center it better. and then go back out to the main edit area where I'm setting up other macros or actions to use.
Next, I want to set up one that creates another layer with a radical gradient and then inverts the gradient so then it's around the outside not on the inside and then another one for just a regular gradient, so I could just press it once and it sets all that up for me.
I like using the radiant gradient in place of the vignette tool. You got so much more control over it.
Photomater still has a ways to go to be a great raw editing tool but I think it's at the point where I'll be able to move over to using it this year for our jobs.
