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Batch is the most requested feature that is present in
Green Screen Wizard Pro 6.0. Unlike a normal batch process where a file
is merged or processed, Green Screen Wizard Pro 5.0 allows you to take two
sets of files, a foreground set and a background set, and multiply the two
together. For example if I had five backgrounds and three different
foregrounds then I would have 15 images when the process was done.
Green Screen Wizard Pro 5.0 now stores all of the
settings that created a file in the file itself. Refer to the
explanation of GSW files earlier. The batch process can use these files in
three ways. It can take the current image and just change the settings. It
can take the current image and replace the settings and the background, or
it can take the current image and replace the foreground and replace the
settings.
Lets try a few examples:
The simplest example is to take the current image and
replace the foreground image in the file. You would do this, for example,
if you took photos of a baseball team and wanted to use the same background
with each photo. To do this we specify the directory that has a foreground
image as we’d like to merge. Then we specify the output directory where we
would like them to go, and then we start the batch. The process will
continue until every file in the batch folder has been merged.
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This dialog shows the last file processed:
Here is the output from the batch run.
Next let’s take our current image and replace the
background with all of the backgrounds found in a given directory. We
do this by selecting the background directory and running the background
process.
If we specify both a foreground directory and a
background directory, then for every foreground an image is created with
every background.
Now let’s see what would happen if we specify a
directory that has GSW files in it.
We choose to let the GSW file override the background by
checking the “Use GSW Background”.
Here’s what the GSW files looked like.
Here is the output from the GSW batch.
Note how the foreground image is scaled and shifted by
the GSW files. Also text and overlays can be added. With this ability you
can create your best “looks,” and then create output for each look.
The batch system can produce low resolution thumbnail
output, but by default it creates high resolution normal output. This
is controlled by the output low resolution checkbox.
You may also select to renumber your output and select
the type of output.
By default the batch process creates an HTML file that
allows the user to view all of the files processed simultaneously. This
can be switched off by unchecking the Create HTML
check box.
Once a batch process has created all of its files, the
process terminates. If you check the box that says “Keep Checking for
New Files,” after the last file is process the batch system will sleep for
1 second, and then it will look to see if there are any new files in any of
the specified folders. If it finds one or more it will process them and
then display the last result in the last result box. This is a handy
feature if you’re doing tethered shooting. Every time the camera stores a
new file in a watched directory that file will be processed and displayed.
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