Base Tools

Overview

The Batch Queue Manager tools are available as plugins loaded dynamically at startup and configurable in Setup dialog. Except few ones, mostly all tools share the same functionalities than plugins from Image Editor. The difference with Image Editor tools is that there is no possibility to preview the tool effects over the images. Other tools are more designed to Convert to file formats, and to apply the Digital Asset Management.

The Batch Queue Manager View to Select Base Tools for Creating a Workflow

Shared Image Editor Tools

List of tools coming from Image Editor and shared in Batch Queue Manager is given below. This list provide the links to Image Editor chapters from this manual corresponding to the Batch Queue Manager tools.

• Image Color Corrections:

  • Convert to 8 bits

  • Convert to 16 bits

  • Color Profile Conversion

  • Color Auto-Correction

  • BCG Correction

  • HSL Correction

  • Colors Balance

  • White Balance

  • Curves Adjust

  • Channels Mixer

  • Black and White Convert (including also the Simulate Infrared Film)

  • Invert Colors

Note

Adjust Levels and Simulate Color Negative Film are not available in Batch Queue Manager.

• Image Enhancement:

  • Sharpen Image (sharpen, unsharp mask, refocus)

  • Blur Image

  • Red Eyes Correction

  • Local Contrast

  • Noise Reduction

  • Hot Pixel Correction

  • Restoration

  • Anti-Vignetting

  • Lens Auto-Correction Tool

Note

Healing Clone Tool and Lens Distortion Correction are not available in Batch Queue Manager.

• Image Transformation Tools:

  • Crop Tool

  • Resize

  • Rotate

  • Flip

  Liquid Rescale, Perspective, Shearing Tool, and Proportional Crop Tool are not available in Batch Queue Manager.

• Image Decoration Tools:

  • Add Watermark (more powerful tool than Insert Text from Image Editor)

  • Insert Text

  • Add Texture

• Special Effect Filters:

  • Color Effects

  • Add Film Grain

Note

Simulate Oil Painting, Simulate Charcoal Drawing, Emboss Photograph, Distortion FX, Blur FX, and Add Rain Drops are not available in Batch Queue Manager.

Convert Tools

These tools allow to save images to new file formats. These are mostly placed at end of your list of Assigned Tools from your Workflow.

• Convert to TIFF

• Convert to PGF

• Convert to HEIF

• Convert to AVIF

• Convert to PNG

• Convert to JPEG

• Convert to JPEG 2000

• Convert to WEBP

• Convert RAW to DNG (this specific tool must be placed on to top of your list of Assigned Tools from your Workflow).

Metadata Tools

• Image Quality Sort

• Apply Metadata Template

• Translate Metadata

• Assign Captions

• Assign Labels

• Remove Metadata

• Time Adjust

Custom Tools

• User Shell Script