Challenge 1: Print Overlays

[Fred A]

HAVE FUN WITH ULTIMATE!
Learn how to use your imagination and create!

Make customized greeting cards!
Make background wall paper for your screen.
Make Posters and Flyers.
Be artistic!
Use your own ideas!

**Terry and I are pooling some ideas to get Q-Ultimate users to expand their capabilities.
We are hoping you will have fun!!
There are no scorecards, report cards, no awards, no dunce caps!
Think of the Challenge as a card trick you saw.... "How did he do that?" (.. and maybe, you even have a better way)

Basics:
We use an 8 x 10 format, a comfort zone size
We can provide hints as needed!
We will provide step by step moves also when we conclude a challenge.

**Terry avid Photographer and Q-Ultimate enthusiast!

Find and use a background that you like and which might reflect the occasion; e.g. Xmas, Valentine's Day, a birthday....
Place three images on top of the background and place them suitably.
You can add floating text too if you like!
Save it, and print it.

We Challenge you!!

Fred and Terry

[Terry-M]

Find and use a background that you like and which might reflect the occasion

There are plenty of free high resolution background images on the internet.
http://www.demilked.com/free-paper-textures-backgrounds/
and
http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/120090912

Terry

[Jeff]

Here is my effort from some time ago.

Basic business card which I hand out when I ask if I can photograph a pretty girl, some time saves a black eye.

No fancy background because I am mean with ink

Jeff
 

[Fred A]

Here is my effort from some time ago.

Basic business card which I hand out when I ask if I can photograph a pretty girl, some time saves a black eye.

No fancy background because I am mean with ink

We are very sorry, but that offering does not meet the criterion.
We do need a background as that is what makes the challenge.  (Terry supplied links to help)
You don't have to print it, so (the "I'm mean with ink" excuse ranks with "The dog ate my homework", excuse .

Also, when you accomplish the task, please include your method as concisely as possible.
(Terry wanted you to sit in the corner, but I reminded him that I promised, no dunce caps)

Good start!
Fred and Terry

[Ya Me]

Nice background Fred.
Did you make it?

You shoud share how to make and use a background like you did for me.

Ya Me

[Fred A]

You shoud share how to make and use a background like you did for me.

I really didn't make a background as in making a pattern. I just took a swatch image that you sent me and used it as a background.

That's the point of the "Challenge"  Use anything, or use a downloaded background, and make the results comply with the challenge!
Fred

[Fred A]

Basic business card which I hand out when I ask if I can photograph a pretty girl, some time saves a black eye.

No fancy background because I am mean with ink

Jeff,
I found this neat background...
If you seek, you shall find!
Fred

[Fred A]

Just realized the time differential!

Basics:
We use an 8 x 10 format, a comfort zone size
We can provide hints as needed!
We will provide step by step moves also when we conclude a challenge.

So here are some hints to get you started...  Realizing this might be really new for many, here's some tips.

1) Assume at this point you have placed your background on the page as 8 x 10 with crop on... but have been stymied because anything you do goes to page two.

TIP!!   There's a tiny red "F" at the upper right corner of the preview panel. Clicking it, offers FREEHAND MODE. Say YES!

TIP) Now click the Print Property button, the main one below the big preview panel!  See screen snap!
Set the size for the next images.

Tip ***   You MUST DRAG the thumb of the image you want onto the background image.

TIP.   See snap... Use the arrow keys and place the background image at the top position.. Now you see the new image on top of the background. **

** That tip was courtesy of Terry.
I had a different method, but his is easier.

That's enough to get you started.

C'mon. Don't be shy... have some fun!

Fred and Terry

[Lurcherjohn]

Hi Folks,
Here's my effort, ready to print.
I did the stained glass background as suggested.
Added three photos which have frames with things growing out of them.
Added straight text, drop shadow text and rotated text.
 Good fun, thanks for the idea,
  John

[Fred A]

Here's my effort, ready to print.
I did the stained glass background as suggested.
Added three photos which have frames with things growing out of them.
Added straight text, drop shadow text and rotated text.
 Good fun, thanks for the idea,
  John

Terrific Job!


Now do Print to File, set page to 8 x 10 RGB. In Page Editor, make sure the background is centered... (depends on printer), back to main screen, and click PRINT!

[Terry-M]

Hi John,
Thank you for showing us your solution to the challenge, very good, I especially like the stained glass background 
Would you tell us in simple terms, the steps you took to make this. Include any tips that would be useful to others; eg. how you made sure the stained glass image did not obscure the flower images. Also, were there any difficulties you encountered?
Terry

[Lurcherjohn]

I used Paintshop Pro to make a frame round a grey background, using frame tool and added that to the background as Fred explained.
The photos I had already made, I had copied the flower, overlapped them with a frame then pasted the hidden petal, bee etc on the frame to give the 3D effect.
I hadn't used the print feature so I played with drop shadow and rotation.
I only use the Edit page to make templates, which I save as Jobs and fetch using recall. I have separate templates for each size/paper/printer profile
eg A4/glossy/Epsonglossy.icm
I use Profile Prism for each make/type of paper I use.
I print cards using templates with my logo on the back and template space on the front.
I use Word for printing inside cards with various size/font/messages saved.
I usually work in metric so had to switch for 10" x8".
I often wished for an Undo button.
Never used Print to file before, hope it gets better quality than my screen grab and used Qimage to resize it.
Good fun, John

[Jeff]

Basic business card which I hand out when I ask if I can photograph a pretty girl, some time saves a black eye.

No fancy background because I am mean with ink

Jeff,
I found this neat background...
If you seek, you shall find!
Fred

Good try, but that is the Grange.

Our residence is hidden from road and Google could not get an image of it,  only the refuse bin!!  Photographing day being a Wednesday - bin day.

Jeff

[Jeff]

Basic business card which I hand out when I ask if I can photograph a pretty girl, some time saves a black eye.

No fancy background because I am mean with ink

Jeff,
I found this neat background...
If you seek, you shall find!
Fred

fred.

Does this qualify?

A good title would be "The Life, Works and Follies of Grumpy"

All that you can see on the background photo is self created, buildings, sheds, trees & land scape - the lot since 1960

Jeff

 

[Jeff]

I just ad that all was created within QUltimate.

PhiMatrix  -   http://www.phimatrix.com/
Design and Analysis Software inspired by PHi, the Golden Ratio

was used to align images and text.

The yacht image is a low quality scan of a 1983 film medium format shot.

Jeff