Technical Specifications
Read Images
- Read images from the clipboard, Photos App, folders, and as individual files
- Ability to read from sub-folders
- Supported file types include Acorn, BMP, GIF, HEIC/HEIF (on 10.13.4 and later), ICO, JPEG, JPEG2000, PDF, PNG, PSD, RAW, TGA, TIFF, WebP, and just about any other format the MacOS can read (it's a super long list)
- Read multilayer and multipage Acorn, GIF, PDF, and PSD
- Generate screenshots
- Open RAW file types supported by macOS X
Split & Combine Images
- Split multilayer and multipage Acorn, GIF, PDF, and PSD into individual images
- Combine images together to create a multipage PDF or PSD
Write Images
- Write images to the clipboard, to a folder, and open in other apps
- Supported file types include HEIC/HEIF (on 10.13.4 and later), JPEG, JPEG2000, PDF, PNG, PSD, TIFF, and WebP.
- Ability to write multipage PDFs, multilayer PSD
- Use Multi Scale to write an image to multiple sizes: 1x, 2x, etc., great for web and icon design
- PNG compression and optimization with ImageAlpha
- Remove alpha channel from HEIC, PNG, TIFF if opaque
Color Adjustments and Blurs
- Change color profile- including RGB, CMYK, grayscale, d3, and many more
- Remove or strip color profile
- Match and modify color pixels
- Adjust saturation, brightness, contrast, exposure, gamma, vibrance
- Add box blur, gaussian blur, noise reduction
Color Effects and Sharpening
- Add a border, drop shadow, or matte background
- Photo effects: chrome, fade, grayscale, instant, invert, mono, noir, process, tonal, transfer, and sepia tone
- Sharpen with sharpen luminance and unsharp mask
- Delete all metadata, or remove just the GPS
- Set the DPI, title, author, description, and copyright
- Edit specific metadata such as IPTC, EXIF, PNG, TIFF, and CIFF
- Fix EXIF rotation
Scriptable
- Run AppleScript
- Shell Scripts
Machine Learning
- Target images in a workflow using machine learning classifications (requires OS 10.13+) and rules
- Preloaded with MobileNet classification model
- Easily install additional CoreML classification systems
- Sort images by file name, color model, DPI, classification confidence, and more
- Crop
- Flip horizontal, vertical, or both
- Rotate
- Scale to resize
- Trim to edges to remove transparency
Watermark
- Add text and image watermarks to images
- Over 20 different blending modes for customized compositing effects.
- Ability to modify scale, offset, opacity, blending modes, tiling, location, and more
- Use metadata tokens to quickly add copyright, author, capture data, and other values
Templates
- Use Retrobatch's preloaded workflow templates
- Create and save your own templates
User Interface
- Inspector palette for easy setting adjustments
- Preview window toggling and preview full screen mode
- Preview window zoom
- Image thumbnail scrubber bar for easy image selection
- Image data information toggling
- Unified single window interface
Additional Features
- Change bits per channel
- Extract depth data
- Add a single transparent pixel to images to prevent social media sites from using compression
- Create workflow notes
- ...and more!
MacOS Integration
- Drag and drop
- Mac OS Fonts and Colors Window
- Share images to Mail, Airdrop, Messages
- Full screen mode
- Autosave and versions
- Built for Retina display
- Touch bar support
Languages
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.12 Sierra or
- MacOS 10.13 High Sierra or
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave
Nodes available in Pro and Regular
Certain advanced nodes are available only in the Pro version of Retrobatch. Beyond that, there are no differences between the Pro version and the regular version. Below is a list of the available nodes for each version.
| Add Border | Animated Image | Auto Enhance | Box Blur |
| Clipboard | Color Controls | Color Invert | Color Posterize |
| Crop | Delete Metadata | Dither | Drop Shadow |
| Duplicate | Exposure Adjust | Fix EXIF Rotation | Flip |
| Gamma Adjust | Gaussian Blur | Grayscale | Image Grid |
| Image Watermark | Indexed PNG | Instant Alpha | Matte |
| Noise Reduction | Opacity | Photo Chrome | Photo Fade |
| Photo Instant | Photo Mono | Photo Noir | Photo Process |
| Photo Tonal | Photo Transfer | Photos Library | Prompt for Files |
| RAW Process | Read Folder | Read Individual Files | Remove GPS |
| Rotate | Round Corners | Scale | Screenshots & Windows |
| Sepia Tone | Set DPI | Set General Metadata | Sharpen Luminance |
| Single Transparent Pixel | Text Watermark | Trim To Edges | Unsharp Mask |
| Vibrance | Workflow Notes | Write Images | |
Retrobatch Pro only nodes
| AppleScript | Change Bits Per Channel | Change Color Profile | Classify Images |
| Delay | Extract Depth Image | Extract Disparity Image | Extract Portrait Matte |
| JavaScript | Layer & Page Splitter | Limit | Make Symlink |
| Mask to Alpha | Multi Scale | Open In App | PDF Image Extractor |
| PDF Maker | PSD Maker | Rules | Set Finder Tags |
| Set Specific Metadata | Shell Script | Style Transfer |