Launching Workflows from Automator

Retrobatch
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Hello,

I’m trying to create a Quick Action that removes the shadows from Screenshots. I use this Workflow which works well from within Retrobatch.

Screenshot shadow remover.retrobatch (7.1 KB)

When I call this Workflow from Automator the output image is nearly the same as the input image without removing the transparent shadows. In my case I take Screenshots as PSD files and the Quick Action only converts the file to PNG.

2

I made a Quick Action in Automator using your workflow, and it ran OK for me against a screenshot of a window, saved as a PSD.

If you run your PSD file against the workflow (not as a Quick Action- just in Retrobatch), does the problem still occur? And if yes, can you send me the PSD file?

3

Hi Gus,

thanks for you help. I can’t upload a PSD file here, but it also happens with with PNG files. Try this one:

Screenshot
Screenshot.png584×1126 141 KB

When I drop it onto a Automator Droplet with this Action …

Automator

… I’ll get this result:

Screenshot
Screenshot.png584×1126 141 KB

When I drop the file into directly into Retrobatch-Workflow, I get this result and that’s what I want:

Screenshot_Correct
Screenshot_Correct.png492×1034 62.2 KB

It doesn’t matter if I run macOS 10.13 or macOS 10.14.

4

OK, I found the bug, and it’s now fixed in the latest builds: Latest Builds from Flying Meat

Try it out, and let me know how it works for you.

5

(And thanks for reporting it- this was an interesting one :slight_smile: )

6

Hi,

wow, you’re fast. It works well and the new version seems to be much faster on my old iMac. :smiley:

Cheers

7

I had a very similar issue to this. I was using 1.44 and when I dropped a file onto my Automator app it actually did nothing at all. Downloading 1.45b1 fixed the issue and it works just fine now.