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Author Topic: Best way to set up multiple images & photo mats?  (Read 6188 times)
BillHorne
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« on: March 03, 2015, 07:13:13 PM »

I want to print multiples of 6 images of my wife's in two batches of 3 of the images that fit across the width of the 17" canvas roll. She will be cutting each out and folding/gluing the top edge over dowels, so I'm using the photo mat feature to enable her to achieve a bleed/trim effect with black "frames" around each image. It took me a long time to set up the first print job (see pic).

Trying to create the second print job with the second set of three images by dragging thumbnails over the first set of image file names in the print queue is probably better than starting from scratch. However, the newly imported images are often rotated.  That's not that big a deal. What's odd is trying to rotate an image 90 degrees left and finding it sometimes rotates 90 degrees right instead.

My biggest trouble has been attempting to adjusting a photo mat size only to find the image inside it resized or rotated, or the mat dimensions on the wrong axes in relation to the image; trying to delete a photo mat sometimes brings up a size error, even though there's lots of room; copying and pasting images to repeat them does not work consistently ... all sorts of mayhem. But maybe I'm doing something wrong, or expecting too much. Any tips?
Thanks.

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« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2015, 11:43:55 AM »

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Trying to create the second print job with the second set of three images by dragging thumbnails over the first set of image file names in the print queue is probably better than starting from scratch. However, the newly imported images are often rotated.  That's not that big a deal. What's odd is trying to rotate an image 90 degrees left and finding it sometimes rotates 90 degrees right instead.
Hi Bill,
Off the top of my head,to have the images stop auto rotating, just turn on The Image orientation lock, or go into Freehand mode.

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My biggest trouble has been attempting to adjusting a photo mat size only to find the image inside it resized or rotated, or the mat dimensions on the wrong axes in relation to the image; trying to delete a photo mat sometimes brings up a size error, even though there's lots of room; copying and pasting images to repeat them does not work consistently ... all sorts of mayhem. But maybe I'm doing something wrong, or expecting too much. Any tips?

Mats are pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
If the images are shrinking when you add a mat, you have the wrong button selected for your job.
Click the one that says, "Grow mats around print"
That will maintain print size.

As for the wrong dimension of the mat appearing on a side you didn't want, see screen snap
See the cursor. It is pointing to a little sign which when clicked, makes all sides even.
Do your mats in the Page editor and not on the preview screen. You will be able to select the mat properly because it's a bigger view, plus you can see the size change on the right side of the screen.
Example: If you have a 5 x 7 print that is getting a 0.1 inch mat, you will see Qimage read the new print size as 5.20 x 7.20, so you know it's right.

As for any specific help on placement or sizes you need to give more information: print sizes, are all the images the same resolution size? Is crop on?
Etc Etc.
Hope some of this helps
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« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2015, 05:30:52 PM »

Thanks, Fred. I had been using the "Grow mats around print" setting all along, which is one of the things that puzzled me.

The extra thick black border along on the tops of my images is intentional, not a glitch, so I haven't needed to use the little mat button that makes all sides even.

Sometimes when trying to edit an existing mat that was off centre in relation to an image, or the wrong dimensions, or rotated from the way I wanted, entering in 1" at the top and .2" on the other 3 sides resulted in 1" on one side and .2" on the top and remaining sides. Other times it worked as expected. I have been assuming that the mat edit window makes changes in relation to the image's native orientation, yes?

I have been working in the Page editor all along. Sometimes I resorted to entering dimensions numerically, with mixed success; a few times I'd enter my desired print dimensions, only to have them rest to something completely different.

All images are @ the same resolution; crop is not on.

One of my challenges was that the 2nd set of images have slightly different dimensions than the 1st, though they share the same orientations, so the reimporting required repeated tinkering. I've finished printing my total of 80 images now and will see if the Image orientation lock or Freehand mode makes any difference next time I attempt something like this. Maybe that was the root of my issues.
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« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2015, 06:22:34 PM »

OK Bill,
Yes the mats will attempt to follow thesizes, but see this video and maybe there's a clue in it for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI_HRjl9414&feature=youtu.be

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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2015, 08:03:45 AM »

Nice video, thanks. The multi-click change of selection from image to mat is good to know about.
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