The batch menu

 

This page is up to date for GRIP version 12.3.12 but see the "What's new" page for more recent changes.

The batch menu is available from GRIP's small main window. That window may be brought to the front by pressing Ctrl-G in other windows.

The batch menu provides a way of applying the same processing to a sequence of images. GRIP sets no particular limit to the number of images which may be processed (though a limit may be imposed by the system's standard file selection dialogue). The images are not displayed in most of these processes (except for the slide show), to save time, but a progress message is shown while the processing takes place. If the processing results in new saved images they are always given modified names, so the original files are not overwritten.

GRIP only loads one image into memory at a time so there is no limitation on the sequence due to memory size. For some operations GRIP does create in memory a 32-bit-per-channel accumulator image with the same width and height as the images being processed. The accumulator needs twice the amount of memory as a normal 16-bit image (for the 21-megapixel images from my Canon camera the accumulator occupies 254 Mbytes).

 The main batch menu

The batch menu has grown very large so it has several sub-menus on it. Its main menu is like this:

 

 The Astro sub-menu

 

 The Geometry sub-menu

 

 The Levels sub-menu

 

 The Combining sub-menu

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