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Author Topic: pre-purchase question: Qimage and Lightroom?  (Read 6229 times)
nealix
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« on: November 23, 2011, 05:34:41 PM »

I am strongly considering buying Q.U., but first have a question.   I use Adobe Lightroom 3 for my workflow and editing.
Are there some suggested tips or details of how Qimage could fit into this workflow? 
Is there also a short one or two paragraph example on using qimage to print panorama photos, such as roll paper?

Thanks,

Neal
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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2011, 05:51:15 PM »

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I am strongly considering buying Q.U., but first have a question.   I use Adobe Lightroom 3 for my workflow and editing.
Are there some suggested tips or details of how Qimage could fit into this workflow?
Is there also a short one or two paragraph example on using Qimage to print panorama photos, such as roll paper?

Thanks,

Neal

I think you are making a fine choice.
Qimage Ultimate will produce the finest quality prints.


As for Lightroom, you will have to hand over your printing files to Qimage as JPGS or TIFFS
Only Lightroom knows to read LR sidecar files, as only Qimage can read Qimage's filter files.

A nice idea to try would be to set Lightroom as your Editor of choice in the Qimage setup. Then a right click on any thumbnail will take you into Lightroom with that image open.
I know that works with PS, so I assume it will with LR.
You can tweak, save as a JPG or TIF and close LR.
You are ready to print. Qimage is still open...

As some time passes, you will find you will be using Qimage Ultimate more and more for your workflow.

Panoramas are as simple as can be.
No need to presize in another program. Just tell Qimage what size you want to print. Put the image in the queue, and it will size it.

Try some of these.
http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/learn.htm

Feel free to come back here and ask as many times as you need to for clarification of anything in Qimage.

Fred

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« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2011, 10:48:20 AM »

Neal

There are two ways of integrating QImage with Lightroom. For either, you have to set QImage as the external Editor in LR in Edit>Preferences>External Editing.
Once you have done that, if you right-click and choose Edit With>QImage.exe LR will export a Tif to a temporary folder and then load it into QImage, and delete it afterwards.
For the second method, you export as usual but set the 'Post Processing' option in the Export dialog box to After Export>Open in QImage.exe (The option is right at the bottom, easy to miss). It's beat not to use the 'Resize to Fit', leave all the interpolation to QI.
Both methods will work with multiple images, but I prefer the second as it works with QI's wonderful 'Job Saving'.

I think QI is possibly the best option for printing panoramas, the method is described in Example 6a of 'Help by Example' in the help file. Basically, if you want to print ,say, a 20" x 100" print, you set the roll paper size to a manageable length, say 20" and load the print.QI will split the print into 20" chunks and the printer will stitch them together seamlessly. This avoids the main problem of printing panos, which is the huge size of the print spool file clogging up the computer. The method works with most Epson  and Canon roll paper printers, but I believe there have been problems with some HP models.

HTH

Brian
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2011, 06:21:50 PM »

Hi

I know nothing about inter grating Lightroom with QU but I do know that once you have QU
you will use other editors less and less, I almost never open PSCS anymore, unless I want to
do radical changes like removing people or backgrounds, and perhaps QU can do this,
I have not completed my discovery of QU talents.

QU is an amazing tool.

Cheers

Daniel
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