Retrobatch – flexible batch image processing for Mac

This is from Gus Mueller, who writes my favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flyingmeat.com&#x2F;acorn&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flyingmeat.com&#x2F;acorn&#x2F;</a>). I&#x27;ve reported a bug to Gus and received a new build with a fix within minutes. I highly recommend his software, even his pizza-themed blog <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maybepizza.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maybepizza.com&#x2F;</a> which includes a nerdy pizza dough recipe generator.<p>I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing integration with more complicated workflows (e.g., upload the processed images or put them in a specific Photos app album or something).

I just used this to build a really neat little workflow. Wasn’t sure if it would work but the results were amazing.<p>The workflow took company logos and turned them into squares, in a specified size, with the logo in black, the background in white, 20% padding around the edge, and png-crushed. They looked fantastic at the end.<p>Steps like flat background colour removal just worked. Transparency handled fine. Pretty intuitive.<p>Only minor gripes would be I found a few images that crashed it. Resaving them as other formats fixed that. And the UI for manipulating the workflow step connections is a bit fiddly.

Could this FINALLY replace Graphic Converter? Probably not on the number of image formats covered, but it does look very promising otherwise.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lemkesoft.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;graphicconverter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lemkesoft.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;graphicconverter&#x2F;</a>

One feature that would get me interested would be good ML upscaling. Pixelmator Pro does a good job of it, but has no batch processing until I figure out how to drive it with Automator. And as far as I know ImageMagick still lacks such a feature.

Fine software, fine company.