Advice for working with Anime Studio and ArtRage

[Thunderone]

Well, like Photoshop, Why not an script than function like the script of Photoshop, but for Artrage?, this product sell too e-Frontier.

[Víctor Paredes]

i now this is not what you are asking, but... with artrage you can save as psd. then you export to animestudio with photoshop.

in addition, the script for photoshop exists because photoshop accepts scripts. artrage doesn't.
it doesn't matter if artrage is sold by e-frontier (photoshop is not sold by e-frointer...)

[ulrik]

Well, like Photoshop, Why not an script than function like the script of Photoshop, but for Artrage?, this product sell too e-Frontier.

I agree, I work a lot with artrage and I miss the oportunity to, at least, batch save the layers as images, and I don't own photoshop so that script is not an option for me. But I guess this is a question for the Artrage developers?

[myles]

Here is the ArtRage suggestion forum.

Maybe if someone starts a thread the ArtRage developers might consider it?

Alternatively, does anyone know enough about the .psd format to write a standalone .psd to .anme (or at least .psd to multiple .png) converter?

Regards, Myles.

[Víctor Paredes]

Alternatively, does anyone know enough about the .psd format to write a standalone .psd to .anme (or at least .psd to multiple .png) converter?

that's interesting... anything which let avoid use photoshop is good for me...

[ulrik]

Here is the ArtRage suggestion forum.

Maybe if someone starts a thread the ArtRage developers might consider it?

Alternatively, does anyone know enough about the .psd format to write a standalone .psd to .anme (or at least .psd to multiple .png) converter?

Regards, Myles.

I asked for a way to batch save layers as images a while ago, and there was not much respond to this issue.
http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums/vi ... highlight=

If there's someone with the skills to make a standalone .psd to .anme converter it would be heaven send!

[bupaje]

Maybe you should also look at GIMP. I assume it can open PSD files, it is free and I believe it supports lua scripting.

[Thunderone]

Thanx for your answers, I'm check the links, and I proving with Gimp, but I think that the script maybe don't work in Gimp.

[myles]

If you're a Windows (or possibly Linux) user who's reasonable happy with the command-line, you might like to try GraphicsMagick (or maybe ImageMagick).

On a recent quick test of one layered .psd file from ArtRage, GraphicsMagick worked quite well.

gm convert layers.psd alayer%02d.png
produced a nice set of .png files with alpha.
(Note: before exporting to .psd from ArtRage I quickly changed the bottom-most layer paper setting to Cel, so that even the bottom/background layer was transparent).

Regards, Myles.

[ulrik]

Hi myles, I'm on mac osx, I tried the "graphicconverter" to split psd layers to images and it works, it also has a batchconverter for this purpose, the only thing is that none of the images has transparency in them, what do you think could be wrong?

[myles]

Hi Ulrik,

if you are talking about the Lemke software, I see on their formats page that for PNG "It supports 1, 2, 4, 8 and 24 bits per pixel." For alpha (transparency) you need 32 bits per pixel.

Regards, Myles.

[ulrik]

Hi Ulrik,

if you are talking about the Lemke software, I see on their formats page that for PNG "It supports 1, 2, 4, 8 and 24 bits per pixel." For alpha (transparency) you need 32 bits per pixel.

Regards, Myles.

Yes you're right, I see that know...hmm
thank you!

[Thunderone]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MYLES!!! In fact, I viewed GraphicMagick and Imagemagick much time ago, but I didn't remember to these small and marvelous little programs.

That does version use? Graphicsmagick 1.1.7-Q16-windows-dll.exe Imagemagick-6.3.0.5-Q16-windows-dll.exe in order to convert the images? and what is it the difference of one and another

OK. I'm read something about that, and most better I'm use Graphicsmagick 1.1.7-Q8-windows-dll.exe