This release allows loading and saving GIMP presets/configs for layer effects/plug-ins, introduces more built-in color-related actions for convenience and improves usability of numeric arguments.

New features:

• You can now load presets for plug-ins and layer effects (custom actions) saved in GIMP. Conversely, you can save presets within Batcher and reuse them in GIMP.
• Added two new built-in actions for color correction: Color Balance and Hue-Saturation (#111). These are equivalent to their corresponding GIMP tools and allow loading and saving presets. These actions are only available for GIMP 3.2 or later. Please note that using a non-default blend mode and opacity values below 100 may not produce the same results as the corresponding tools in GIMP.
• Added the following new built-in actions for automatic color correction: Equalize, Stretch Contrast, Stretch Contrast HSV and Color Enhance. These are equivalent to their corresponding GIMP tools (#141).
• Added a new unit labeled %* representing a percentage taken from the specified object (image or layer) and property (width, height, …). This was originally the behavior of the % unit. To reduce visual clutter, the object and property are now displayed in a popover when choosing %*. The % unit is now only displayed for particular arguments in built-in actions where applicable. For example, the percentage for the Width argument in the Scale action is taken from the width of the object to be scaled (selected by the Apply to (image or layer): argument).
• Scale: Added options to scale only images/layers smaller/larger than the specified width and height, or custom width and height (#163).
• Added a setting to control whether the dialog for quick variants of Export Images and Export Layers is displayed. Previously, once you unchecked Show this dialog, there was no way to restore the dialog unless you reset settings. This setting can be found under Settings → Preferences... (see below).
• Added a setting to adjust the number of decimal places for numeric arguments. This allows you to increase numeric precision if needed. This setting can be found under Settings → Preferences... (see below).

Changes to actions and conditions:

• Renamed Color menu to Colors for consistency with GIMP.
• Moved White Balance under Colors → Auto.
• For consistency with GIMP, opacity arguments are now displayed in the range 0.0-100.0 and saved in the range 0.0-1.0.

Changes to the user interface:

• Moved Close when Done, Continue on Error and Keep Input Images under Settings → Preferences.... Changes to any of these settings are saved immediately.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed action/condition edit dialogs not being closed when removing them by pressing Delete or when resetting settings.

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This release improves usability of layer effects and management of actions and conditions.

New features

• Actions and conditions can now be duplicated by selecting the Duplicate item from the action options menu (see changes below) or by pressing Ctrl + D.

User interface changes:

• Numeric arguments for layer effects (filters) installed with GIMP now have much more realistic minimum and maximum values, the same ones when using these effects in GIMP. You can still drag the mouse beyond the left or right edge or enter a higher/lower value, if applicable. The step sizes (when pressing the Up, Down, Page Up or Page Down key) and the number of decimal digits were also updated accordingly (#152).
• Adjusting values on decimal numeric sliders by keys now increases/decreases the values by a smaller amount for small ranges (e.g. 0.01 by pressing the Up key if the value range is 0.0-1.0).
• Options related to managing actions and conditions (rename, remove, …) are now placed under a menu which can be brought up by pressing the arrow button next to the edit button.
• Actions and conditions can now be renamed and removed via keyboard shortcuts, specifically F2 and Delete, respectively.
• Actions and conditions can now be moved up/down via Move Up/Down menu items.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a crash when adding the Without Color Tags condition.

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This release focuses on usability improvements of built-in actions.

General changes:

• Updated Dutch translation (thanks to @DiGro).
• Replaced the Merge visible layers and rasterize export option with a dropdown. You now have a choice to remove the alpha channel (i.e. flatten) the image before export if no alpha channel is desired.

New features:

• Added Flatten (Remove Alpha) built-in action for convenience.

User interface changes:

• Entries representing patterns (e.g. in Rename or Export) now expand while typing, allowing to type longer patterns more easily. The default width of pattern entries was also increased for this purpose (#136).
• File arguments in actions now contain a text field and a button displaying a native file dialog, much like the output directory in e.g. Batch Convert.
• Scale: Renamed New width to Width, New heigh to Height. Renamed Aspect ratio to How to scale and its options for hopefully greater clarity, particularly in hopes of making the Fit... options more discoverable. How to scale is now placed before Width and Height.
• Scale, Rotate: The action name is now updated automatically based on the options chosen.
• Export, Scale, Rotate, Resize Canvas: Several options are now hidden when they are not usable. Some options which were previously insensitive (disabled) will now be shown/hidden instead. This change should reduce cognitive load on the user.
• Moved less common options (Filter, Blend mode) for Brightness-Contrast, Levels and Curves under More options.

Changes to actions and conditions:

• Brightness-Contrast, Levels, Curves: Apply non-destructively is now enabled by default for consistency with GIMP. Existing actions remain intact.
• Rotate: When using the custom angle and when rotating the entire image, the image will now be fit to its new bounds. This change makes the behavior of the action consistent with rotating by 90, 180 or 270 degrees. This behavior is disabled for existing Rotate actions when updating Batcher to this version, but can be enabled by checking Resize image to fit.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed processing and export of images with a precision (bit depth and gamma) different from the default (8-bit nonlinear) (#157).
• Fixed the GUI of initial actions on the very first start of Batcher not being set up properly. This resulted in many actions, notably Resize to Layer Size, displaying all options at once.
• The fix for crash on startup introduced in Batcher 1.2.6 will no longer require manually deleting the parasiterc file if you started 1.2.6 and then installed and started a later version.

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This release improves watermark insertion and provides more layer operations, namely duplicating layers and applying actions to layers at a particular position.

General changes:

• Layer Above (Foreground) and Layer Below (Background) will now always consider the layer immediately above or below the current layer, respectively. Previously, if Insert Foreground/Background inserted layers with color tags, Layer Above/Below would only consider these tagged layers, regardless of other layers that could be inserted by custom actions immediately above/below the current layer. This behavior could cause confusion.

New features:

• Replaced Insert Background and Insert Foreground with Insert Overlay (Watermark), which now also allows inserting text. Basic options such as position, size, opacity can be adjusted directly within this action (without having to add other actions and using Layer Above or Layer Below). This action will not be added as the first action - text or image watermarks are by default placed to the bottom right of the current image extents, which would cause confusion when Resize to Layer Size is placed after this action in Export Layers or Edit Layers (#124).
• In Insert Overlay (Watermark), you can now specify patterns instead of a single file. This way, you are able to insert different background/foreground for each input image. Patterns can also be used for the text to be inserted.
• Added a new Duplicate Layer action, which inserts a copy of the specified layer in the same image.
• You can now apply actions to layers at arbitrary positions via the new Layer at Position placeholder. This can be useful if you insert multiple layers in an image or your images readily contain multiple layers, and you need to modify a specific layer that is not directly above or below the current layer. This only applies to layers at the top level, i.e. not inside group layers.
• For the [image name] field, added %o option that uses the original image name (before being renamed e.g. by the Rename action).
• If patterns are used in Insert Overlay (Watermark), you can specify the image file path via the [image file] field.

User interface changes:

• If Match input folders is displayed on start, the default dialog focus will be set to the button for choosing a folder.

Changes to actions and conditions:

• Merge Background and Merge Foreground are no longer added automatically when Insert Overlay (Watermark) is added.
• Replaced Merge Background and Merge Foreground with a single action named Merge Layer that can be added by the user.
• Renamed the automatically added Not Background/Not Foreground conditions to Without Color Tag: <color tag> given the related changes for clarity.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed some options in Crop and Resize Canvas not working for text layers.
• Fixed names of actions and conditions displayed after reset not being updated properly. In particular, when resetting settings for Export Layers, the Resize Canvas action that is automatically added was not renamed to Resize to Layer Size.

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• Fixed a critical bug that caused Batcher to crash on startup when upgrading to 1.2.6.
• Fixed a crash when using a color picker for color arguments in actions (#154).

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• Fixed a crash when adding and editing With Color Tags or Without Color Tags conditions (#147).

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• Fixed a crash for Export Layers (Quick) if Show this dialog was checked (#145).
• Fixed a crash when selecting certain layer effects in the custom action browser for some GIMP installations (specifically those that depend on a version of PyGObject lower than 3.50.0) (#143).

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• Fixed a bug causing Edit and Save Images to crash on start.

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General changes:

• Updated Dutch translation (thanks to @DiGro).
• For GIMP 3.2 or later, you must install Batcher 1.2.2 or later. There was an issue preventing Batcher from working.

New features:

• You can now type or paste an output folder (beside choosing a folder from a file dialog or the dropdown). This makes it possible to specify a folder that does not exist (which is automatically created during processing).

Changes to actions and conditions:

• Levels, Curves: For GIMP 3.2 and later, presets saved with a mode other than linear (non-linear, perceptual) are now allowed.
• Brightness-Contrast, Levels, Curves: For GIMP 3.2 and later, these actions can now optionally be applied non-destructively. Blend mode and opacity can now also be adjusted.
• script-fu-unsharp-mask is no longer available as a custom action as it opens a new image in GIMP (even when running the procedure non-interactively) and is thus not usable within Batcher. The gegl:unsharp-mask filter can be used as a substitute (#138).

User interface changes:

• Batch Convert, Export Images, Export Layers: The default focus when opening the main dialog is now on the output folder entry.
• Moved labels for export settings to separate rows. This makes more room for the folder and filename entries (and particularly when translated labels are longer than their English counterparts). The labels have also been made clearer thanks to the additional space available.
• Slightly increased width for the file format entry to account for file extensions with more characters.
• If an action fails during the preview, an inline message is displayed instead of a modal dialog. This can vastly reduce frustration when a user adds and edits an action until the action no longer results in a failure (e.g. replacing default values such as unspecified files or adding coordinates for gimp-pencil). Additionally, this prevents message spam when an action fails when starting Batcher, which could result in Batcher getting unresponsive on some platforms (#133).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed several icons not changing when selecting a different icon theme in GIMP.
• Fixed a critical bug preventing Batcher from running on certain platforms for GIMP 3.2 or later.

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• Updated translations: Dutch, German. Thanks to @DiGro and @ChrisLauinger77!
• In the rare event that a folder with the same name exists during export, the overwrite dialog will no longer display the Replace this file option as it was causing an error. While the file to be exported could in theory replace the folder by removing the folder and its contents, this would likely not be anticipated by the user, rendering this choice unsafe. If Apply this choice to all remaining files is checked or processing is performed non-interactively, the Rename new file is used instead (but only if a folder exists rather than a file).
• Fixed a crash when opening the custom action browser when certain custom layer effects are installed (#127).

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