{"id":41043,"date":"2023-11-09T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41043"},"modified":"2023-11-09T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:50:38","slug":"retrobatch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/09\/retrobatch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobatch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/retrobatch\/releasenotes.html\">Flying Meat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/retrobatch\/releasenotes.html\"><p>Retrobatch 2.0 includes a new dark UI, a bunch of new nodes, new features, refinements in existing nodes and UI, plus much more.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>New &ldquo;Super Resolution&rdquo; node, which uses machine learning to scale up your image 4x its size.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>New &ldquo;Photos Export&rdquo; node which replaces the &ldquo;Photos Library&rdquo; node (which Apple has deprecated libraries it uses). This new node will download from iCloud as well as export the unmodified originals from Photos, including RAW photos.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>New &ldquo;Recognized text&rdquo; option for the Rules node which you can use to filter out images based on character recognition in the image.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The Screenshot node now has text field you can use to filter which screenshots are used in a workflow. For instance, if you only want to capture windows from Safari, you would enter &ldquo;Safari&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2023\/11\/retrobatch_2.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2023\/11\/retrobatch_2.html\"><p>It comes in 2.5 flavors:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Retrobatch<\/strong> (regular): currently $19.99 one time fee. Comes with all 2.x upgrades.<\/li><li><strong>Retrobatch Pro<\/strong>: currently a $39.99 one time fee (or $24.99 if you&rsquo;re upgrading from 1.x). Also comes with all 2.x upgrades. It has more &ldquo;Pro&rdquo; features (aka, wacky things with color profiles, JavaScript, and more).<\/li><li><strong>Retrobatch Pro (App Store)<\/strong>: $24.99 a year with a free 7 day trial. It also has <a href=\"https:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/retrobatch\/docs-2.0\/provsregular\/#the-following-features-and-nodes-are-unavailable-on-the-app-store-version-of-retrobatch-pro\">some features missing<\/a> because of App Store restrictions - but that may not matter to you.<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mac App Store version is missing droplets and the nodes for AppleScript, shell scripts, and Finder integration; and the command-line tool is severely limited by sandboxing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/16\/command-bars\/\">Command Bars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/mac-app-store-and-investing-engineering-time\/\">Mac App Store and Investing Engineering Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/26\/sandboxing-a-command-line-tool-with-paths-as-arguments\/\">Sandboxing a Command Line Tool With Paths As Arguments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/retrobatch-public-beta\/\">Retrobatch Public Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/productivity-apps-and-subscription-pricing\/\">Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Meat: Retrobatch 2.0 includes a new dark UI, a bunch of new nodes, new features, refinements in existing nodes and UI, plus much more.[&#8230;]New &ldquo;Super Resolution&rdquo; node, which uses machine learning to scale up your image 4x its size.[&#8230;]New &ldquo;Photos Export&rdquo; node which replaces the &ldquo;Photos Library&rdquo; node (which Apple has deprecated libraries it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-11-09T16:50:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"479c1ac7-d105-43d2-bfc4-5d07401fb69f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-09T16:50:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AR5wax9EFQ9K_xF0HQB-2nw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1421,1351,1805,619,1142,30,32,39,2385,622,1669,53,282,1686],"class_list":["post-41043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-dark-mode","tag-graphics","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-ocr","tag-retrobatch","tag-sandboxing","tag-screenshots","tag-shortcuts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41044,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043\/revisions\/41044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}