ANN: Quartz Composition Filters in Revolution for OSX

[Sivakatirswami]

Aloha, Thomas:

Thanks for that very clear response.
First, I don't call this cheating,
I think a lot of us Rev to get various horses under the same harness...
No better tool for that!

Though if there is no unsharp mask ("critical" for web photos in our 
book) I will probably use Wilhelm's script which he was kind enough to 
give a long while back but  I've too busy to get into action, but will 
be needed very soon...

I don't see any contraint in your script for .jpg...

even your:

"answer file "Select a picture to process:" with "PNGs, *.png"

is not masking .jpg... and ... testing.... hold... yes, it works on a 
small .jpg (36k)

so, we must just be just facing file size and processing time...

I will definitely check out automator (never used it...)

Too bad we can't get this on windows. you could
so some "crazy stuff" for kids that they would just love...

Thanks again for sharing

Sivakatirswami


IThomas McGrath III wrote:
> My Dear Sivakatirswami,
>
> You are most welcome, most welcome. I figured since we weren't going 
> to RunRevLive we could still have some fun.....
>
> I too was looking into Core transitions which you know we have already 
> in Rev and was trying to make use of some of the built-in features of 
> OSX in Applescript. But no luck. It turns out that the Quartz Filters 
> are only available at this time through Xcode and Aperature, then I 
> found that Automator also has internal access to these filters. But 
> they are not scriptable. The applescript dictionaries for a lot of 
> these new system wide features is half done. There are references to 
> future scriptability for most of them. The difference was that Image 
> effects are apple scriptable and Core transitions are already in Rev 
> but these Quartz Composition Filters are not!!!
>
> So, I thought why not just build the Automator workflows and turn them 
> into apps. Then call those apps from applescript from within Rev. But 
> still they won't work directly on an image while it is in Rev but 
> rather I am using rev to show the image, then save the image, then run 
> the automator filter on the image and lastly reload the image and 
> offer the user to save the new image file. It felt like cheating at 
> first but then I realized that in RR these images are editable and 
> savable and usable and this is not that different than doing all of 
> this in an offscreen buffer, not really. Also multiple filters can be 
> applied to the same image with very interesting results. Twirl will 
> build upon Twirl over and over. I have been playing with this all day, 
> it is very addictive.
>
> On to your issues: Two things, The first is you may have to apply the 
> filter twice, do it once to initiate the process and then apply it 
> again. This is just with the larger files because of the time the 
> Automator app takes to run and in Rev I only put in a four minute 
> wait. You can change that of course. Secondly, these are meant mostly 
> for PNG files and I don't know what the 4.8 M Image format is.
>
> Don't forget that I did this as a demo, so the larger images I set to 
> scale in half and you might want to change that.
>
> I would like to put an Undo in and also find a way to further 'script' 
> the process.
>
> Unsharp Mask was not among the available filters. But most of them are 
> very high end filters.
>
> There are parameters for some of these filters and I am trying to 
> figure out how to access them from Rev, but without scriptability this 
> is a bit harder to accomplish.
>
> You can definitely accomplish this and a lot more in Automator and no 
> it is actually very easy once you know what to look for. You should be 
> able to actually open Automator and then open one of the apps I built 
> to see how easy it is.
>
> It was almost too easy and yet had not been thought of yet.
>
> I hope you enjoyed this demo stack and if you make any changes send me 
> a copy, I would love to see where this could go for us.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom McGrath III
> On May 7, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Thank you Thank you! and here I just looked into this last 
>> week looking for photo processing options from with Rev and missed 
>> something really big and came away thinking
>>
>> "Oh, this Core Image thingy is only for transitions... "
>>
>> Of course, you have built all the external apps.
>>
>> only thing:
>>
>> it worked on Mz Joplin
>>
>> -- but it did not work on a standard 4.8 megapixel camera image
>>
>> is unsharp mask an available filter?
>>
>> Did you build those in Xcode yourself? How hard was that?
>>
>>
>> .I need u
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