Process Icon "Placeholder"?

[JamieInCLT]

I am learning the basics, trying to build a basic workflow. 

I find that saving process icons is a great way to remember what I want to do, but there are some things that I can't add an icon for, "extract lightness" and "invert for a mask", for example. 

Is there any way to add a "note" process icon or something?

Thanks!

[msmythers]

You can say the History Explorer as a Process Icon for any working image.

Here I have 2 images, a and a_L. a_L is my mask and I inverted it. The history contains the process icons which you can keep in the history icon or drag out to the workspace and then save the individual icon. To save the history icon just drag and drop the new instance icon to the workspace and then save as any other process icon.

In the main image where I applied the mask I also inverted the mask. Notice the mask section of the history explorer. The '~' in the label ~a_L means the mask was inverted after applied to the image. Also you can see in the a image history that I change the name identifier for the image. That can also be saved as a process icon.



Mike

[msmythers]

I forgot about the ChannelExtract process for lightness. If you used the Toolbar to extract L when you open the history for the extracted L image you will see an arrow. Click on the arrow and that opens a secondary process which is your ChannelExtract process for L. You can save that icon.


Mike

[JamieInCLT]

Thanks!  That's perfect.  I can just make the name the note

[msmythers]

One other thing with process icons and the history you can add notes to a process. The double arrow opens and closes that section. You might need to resize to see everything.



Mike

[JamieInCLT]

I was able to accomplish what I wanted.  I can also create a dummy process that tells me what to do.  I will later look at the scripting options to see if I can extract, invert, then apply back the mask.

Thanks for the pointers!