The Sidekick Mode

While the Sidekick Mode tab is active any files sent to Noise Ninja will be automatically processed and saved without user interaction. Files can come from external applications, the file open dialog, or drag and drop.

The sidekick mode can be used as an alternative to the batch processor, but is particularly useful as a way to batch process multiple images when using Noise Ninja as an external editor for another application.

Note: The Sidekick Mode tab is extensively annotated with "What's This" help. Click on the "What's This" button and then click on an individual control in the tab to view a description of the item. The documentation on this page provides a high-level introduction to the sidekick mode. For details regarding individual settings, switch to the sidekick mode tab and use the "What's This" help.

The basic workflow for using the sidekick mode with thirdparty applications is as follows:

1. Select an image in your thirdparty application and start Noise Ninja as an external editor.
   
2. Process this image as you normally would.
   
3. Click on the "Sidekick Mode" tab to activate sidekick mode.
4. Use the profile policy drop down and filter policy drop down to determine how profiles and filter settings are selected for images to be processed. You can have the profile and filter settings of the current image be applied to all subsequent images. Your drop down selections will be the defaults next time you start Noise Ninja.
   
5. Return to your thirdparty application send additional images to Noise Ninja. Any images you send will be automatically be processed based on your settings while Noise Ninja remains in the sidekick mode. This will allow you to quickly batch process images in Noise Ninja from your preferred thirdparty application.
   

If your thirdparty application sends new copies of images to Noise Ninja you can select the "Overwrite existing file" option from the output policy drop down to avoid creating additional unnecessary copies of the images. You can turn on the "Start Noise Ninja in Sidekick Mode" option to have sidekick mode start on by default and begin batch processing from your thirdparty application without having to click a single button in Noise Ninja.

Sidekick Mode can be used as an alternative to the batch processor dialog. While in sidekick mode you can drag and drop multiple files or folders and they will be automatically processed. Whenever a folder is drag and dropped sidekick mode will add all the images in the folder to the list of images to be processed.

Note that you can use the Noise Brush to touch-up batch-processed images. Click here for details.