Batch processing using Perfectly Clear

[coolrat]

Hi,

With Paintshop Pro X9, I was able to create a script using the included Perfectly Clear 2 plugin so that I could batch process files.

Paintshop Pro X9 would dutifully and automatically run the script on hundreds of images.

But with Paintshop Pro 2018, the new script for running the included Perfectly Clear 3 plugin will NOT run unattended. As the Paintshop Pro 2018 attends to each photo in the batch stream, it opens Perfectly Clear and requests me to choose settings and click OK or APPLY. This defeats the purpose of having batch processing.

Is there a way to fix this behavior?

[LeviFiction]

This question has come up several times recently. And thanks to the testing of several users, we now know that you have to run plugins interactively.

You can force PSP to run the script silently, but the script does not record settings or actions taken when the plugin was run, and I'm unsure if PSP is capable of sending that information to the plugin at all even if it did get recorded. So nothing will get applied if the script runs silently. Plugins must be run interactively.

[JoeB]

This question has come up several times recently. And thanks to the testing of several users, we now know that you have to run plugins interactively.

You can force PSP to run the script silently, but the script does not record settings or actions taken when the plugin was run, and I'm unsure if PSP is capable of sending that information to the plugin at all even if it did get recorded. So nothing will get applied if the script runs silently. Plugins must be run interactively.

Actually, as I mentioned in another thread I am aware of one plugin that can be run silently in a script as long as the last effect/preset used in that plugin is the same one that you want to be applied with the script, and that plugin is Alien Skin Eye Candy 7. Eye Candy 7 always opens with whatever effect was last used. I made a short test script that promotes my background layer, duplicates it, resizes the duplicate layer only by 35%, invokes Eye Candy with a Chrome preset, then duplicates that layer. The script runs perfectly in silent mode. But if you change the default effect in Eye Candy (perhaps when working on another image), then it is that new effect which is applied to the image when the script is run because, as mentioned, PSP can't record the plugin's settings. But my interpretation of the test is that if the plugin immediately applies an effect that it defaults to then that will be applied to the image. However, whether that is just a quirk of Eye Candy 7 or will work with any plugin that retains a user selected effect/preset as default I have no idea because I haven't tested it with other plugins that might retain a previous effect as default.