As per your - David's - helpful comment about how to exclude a filter from specific images I went to put it in my skin questions and tested it only to get a ClassCastException in AlbumBean.java:

An unexpected error occurred. Please see detailed description below:
 
java.lang.ClassCastException: class java.lang.String cannot be cast to class java.util.Set (java.lang.String and java.util.Set are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.AlbumBean.isExcluded(AlbumBean.java:4252)
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.AlbumBean.processFilters(AlbumBean.java:4234)
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.AlbumBean$StandardImageProcessor.processImage(AlbumBean.java:6024)
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.AlbumBean$StandardImageProcessor.processImages(AlbumBean.java:5856)
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.AlbumBean$ImageProcessingTask.call(AlbumBean.java:5786)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

More information: I had it for one image and I had only one filter ('ReflectionFilter'). I tried just 'Reflection' too and same problem.

It's not a huge problem for me but it'd be nice if it was fixed too. I've not done any other testing of excluded items but removing the variable from the image and the build works fine (which makes sense since the stacktrace suggests it's processing filters). The images before it that were filtered did not have any problems either.

Okay this is what you said before:


So what I did is right click on an image, click 'Edit' (that is the Edit view, right?) and then did as I noted in the OP. However what you say here makes me think that there's another way. I am familiar with the User variables under Advanced -> User variables but that's not image specific is it? Or let me ask that differently: is it possible to make it image specific?

Because from:


I'm not actually sure now what the difference is. Anyway screenshot shows where I added it (though it's not added here it's the same place I did do).

Does that give you enough information?

No worries.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to it.

Cheers.

Sorry for duplicate, connection problem in the posting.

Anyway thanks again. Much appreciated.

Edited by: xexyl on 19-Jul-2020 10:13

Does this mean that the method to exclude individual images from a filter as described in the article about image filters http://jalbum.net/help/en/More_about_image_filters#Logotype_filter is not correct?

Excluding an Image

You can exclude an individual image from the album-wide logotype filter by opening the image for editing in jAlbum, opening the Variables panel on the right, and entering a new variable with the name applyLogo and a value of false.

Edited by: palthe on 14-Jan-2021 16:12

Let me explain my question:

In my skin I use the FixedShapeFilter.
I wanted to exclude some images from this filter,

In the article about filters I found this method for the LogoFilter:
1) Add a new user-variable with the name applyLogo and a value of false.

So I tried to use this method for the FixedShapeFilter:
1a) Add a new user-variable with the name applyFixedShape and a value of false,
or
1b) Add a new user-variable with the name applyFixedShapeFilter and a value of false.
This did not work.

Then I found this post with a second method:
2) Add a new user-variable with the name excludeFilters and as value a comma-separated list of filter names.

So I tried to use this second method for the FixedShapeFilter:
2a) Add a new user-variable with the name excludeFilters and a value of FixedShapeFilter.
This worked!

My question is:
Did method 1) not work for the FixedShapeFilter because
I used it incorrectly, or
It only works for the LogoFilter, or
It is outdated?

My second question:
Does method 2) also works for the LogoFilter ?
If so, it might be better to mention only method 2) in the documentation, to avoid confusion.

The newer "excludeFilters" user variable mechanism can be used to exclude any image filter.

Thank you both for the replies. It's now clear to me.