TURNING THE HISTOGRAM INTO A LAYER

[ermichalski]

I am interested in adding a histogram to every image in a batch and I like how Corel visualizes its image histograms. How can I turn an image histogram into a layer which I could merge with an image?

thanks much in advance,
Ed

[JoeB]

I actually don't know what you mean by "image histogram", so my reply could be way off base. However, if you are talking about the histogram window that you can open when you click View>Palettes>Histogram (or hit F7), then open that palette and then hold the Alt key and tap the Print Screen key. This will copy that palette to the clipboard. Click on the image titlebar to give it focus and Paste as New Layer, and the image of the Histogram palette will become a layer on your image. You may have to move it to the top of the stack. It can then be moved, resized, etc., like any other layer.

[LeviFiction]

Yeah, but they want to be able to do this in batches. Which if you're using the Batch Processor no script will do this because no image is actively opened in the workspace.

So, to answer your question, using batch process it's not possible to add PSP's histogram image to your image as that histogram is drawn dynamically in the workspace and no images are loaded into the workspace with Batch Process.

Now, it might be possible to create a script that when run will open every image in a folder/list, perform the necessary functions and then close the image. But that can quickly get complicated as in a script you won't have the ability to identify the palette as the source of a screenshot. So you'd need to take a full screenshot. Paste as New Layer, use a preset selection to select everything except for the histogram, and delete it. Which, if it goes off canvas will be very hard.

To avoid the issue of going off canvas you could paste as new image and then do the cropping that way. Before copying the newly cropped image over to the current one.

Personally, and I could be wrong, but I don't see any good way to handle this script-wise.