Executing a sequence of steps across multiple images

[slang]

Hi.

I've got a series of images - well, ~200 lunar eclipse images of which I need ~80 or so to be used. The basic initial pre-processing is the same, crop, histogram etc. Whilst I can create process icons, and drag and drop these onto each open image, this presents the following problem;
1) If I load all 80 images at once, the swap space goes a bit nuts, and the system slows down somewhat (only 8GByte of RAM)
2) It really is tedious applying process icon 1 to 80 images, then process icon 2 etc. etc. etc.

I have searched and checked as much as I can, but not seen an answer. Is there a tool/script/utility that I can use to apply a single process icon (or even better, several of them) to a number of images, either already open, or on disk.

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum - been a while since I've posted anything...

Cheers -

[Ioannis Ioannou]

Do you know about Image Container ? It does exactly what you want, put the images, trim the parameters regarding the output of the results, save an instance on the desktop, drag any process (even a process container I think) over it. I'm doing this a lot of times for batch processes on many images.

[slang]

Ahhh, WOW, thanx.

Had heard about ImageContainers, but didn't remember enough detail to apply it to my situation. Indeed, it is what I need.

By following http://www.astrosurf.com/astronosur/pixinsight/image-container-1.htm or the translated
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.astrosurf.com%2Fastronosur%2Fpixinsight%2Fimage-container-1.htm

I have all the answers that I need. Thank you (and of course all the PI devs and contributors) for saving a LOT of my time.

Cheers -