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« on: February 24, 2012, 01:48:34 PM »

I had a customer bring in a damaged sepia tone to copy/repair so i photographed it and then resepia toned the image in lr to get it same as the original.
when I printed it in Qimage however it came out as a b/w?
 So I tried to print in LR and CS5 and it came out fine just like the screen image.
Why did Qimage produce a b/w ? how is that possible?
every thing is calibrated and the Qimage out put normally for b/w and colour is spot on but not with this sepia .
any ideas any one.
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2012, 02:28:03 PM »

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I had a customer bring in a damaged sepia tone to copy/repair so i photographed it and then resepia toned the image in lr to get it same as the original.
when I printed it in Qimage however it came out as a b/w?
 So I tried to print in LR and CS5 and it came out fine just like the screen image.

I am not sure if the image I downloaded was already in sepia or before sepia coloring.
In the Qimage editor I get readings in teh white cliffs of RGB 219,201, 198
Readings on the gray cliffs ,75, 68, 60
I made four prints,
One from Qimage, one from Irfanview, one from Photo Shop, and one from Corel Paint.
All alike... a gray with a slight lean to green.
If I add the sepia filter in Qimage and print; comes our Sepia.
Don't know how you got sepia from the image you posted.

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2012, 03:38:44 PM »

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In the Qimage editor I get readings in the white cliffs of RGB 219,201, 198; Readings on the gray cliffs ,75, 68, 60
I get similar results to Fred.
Sky 115,110,98
White cliff 205,198,192
Cliff top on LHS 26,19,13
All the readings seem to show a small bias towards red - is that sepia?
I too did a small print on Ilford smooth pearl with a proven custom profile and a print the matched the calibrated monitor perfectly when examined under an Ott light.
Like the RGB readings & screen, the print seemed just a little warm but not a definite sepia tone.
There are some things we need to ask, which may seem rather obvious to a pro!
Are you using layers in the image to give the sepia effect which are not read by Qimage or show up on your attachment. They need to be flattened.
Are you using a fully colour managed process with monitor profiled and a good printer profile.
Have you checked your driver settings from within Qimage? Make sure they are set for ICM no colour adjustment etc. and that grey scale printing has not been accidently ticked.
That's all I can think of for now but what you show on your attachment is a slightly warm B&W image, not a definite sepia as I would understand it.
Terry
PS. I read your image as being Adobe RGB colour space.
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2012, 04:39:19 PM »

I selected 2 images to attach to the post and seem to have lost one. I will resend tomorrow as I am not at work now.
when I photographed the original on my copy table the image was much more b/w than the original and I used a sepia filter in Lr to correct the image to match the original. It might not be true sepia but that's what LR called it.
yes image flattened
yes all calibrated , as stated I never normally have a problem with colour in Qimage work flow, therefore driver settings are correct,and grayscale printing is not selected.
I will repost the two tomorrow with notes to apply to each one.
It's not a issue as such as I have printed out what i need, it just  a curiosity as to why.
thank you for the interest and time taken
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2012, 06:05:14 PM »

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I selected 2 images to attach to the post and seem to have lost one.
The one image was 187KB and the total limit for attachments per post is 256KB that is why one disappeared.
We await the other one with interest  Wink
Terry
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2012, 07:14:20 PM »

What I see on screen in your post is about what prints out, that JPG,
Using 4 printing programs. I don't have Light-room, but I managed to print from Photo Shop; all the same.

Just for fun, I added a sepia filter to your JPG.
I made two.
One is the sepia filter, and the second I toned down a little with a minus 20 saturation, plus I added a noise filter which didn't hurt.

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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2012, 10:30:15 AM »

here is the original that I had to work with, I cant save any smaller than this with PS so only one image. the original was very grainy which i initially removed but then put back as the task was to try to duplicate the damaged print.
there are some undamaged ares which was what my "sepia" tone is  replicating.
Once I repaired the damage I converted to b/w to remove all the colour casts and then added the sepia gradually to get as close as possible to the faded original which is what the client wants.
what I don't under stand was what setting I have applied or unwittingly set in Qimage that make it ignore the sepia or more probably is converting it back to b/w. It has to be me of that I'm sure as  the program produced two perfect colour prints also water damaged and repaired from the same client.  
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2012, 11:29:36 AM »

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here is the original that I had to work with, I cant save any smaller than this with PS so only one image. the original was very grainy which i initially removed but then put back as the task was to try to duplicate the damaged print.

I will tell you one thing I see!
You did a magnificent job of repair and restoration.

What I would like to have, and so would Terry, is a copy of the actual image that you use to make the print. The earlier image wasn't in sepia.
Then we can see what Qimage saw when attempting to make the print.
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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2012, 11:33:05 AM »

Hi,
I've downloaded the original image (what a mess!) and got the following RGB reading for similar areas as the repaired image.
Sky 115, 106 87
Cliff face 201, 191, 173
Cliff top on RHS 26, 21 17
These reading are slightly biased to having less blue than your repaired image, ie. more yellow.
I'm sure if I printed it I would get a good match.
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I don't under stand was what setting I have applied or unwittingly set in Qimage that make it ignore the sepia or more probably is converting it back to b/w.
There is only one way for this to happen in QU, that is a filter has been applied with the Image Editor. The file name under the thumb will turn red to show that. There could be a print filter set and that would show as a tick in the P.Filter box, bottom right of the main screen.
Have you got some weird profile set in Qimage?
Terry
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2012, 11:47:44 AM »

........ just to add to Terry'a thought, Photo Shop makes an .XMP file to carry it's layers and adjustments.
Are you sure that you created your Tif file that you are using in Qimage which includes those enhancements?

Also would like to know if you can email the Tif, or is too big, can you convert it to a JPG for emailing?

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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2012, 11:52:27 AM »

what do you use to resize? ps save as smallest is ok size wise but wrecks the iq
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« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2012, 12:01:05 PM »

sepia [sort of ] version tinted in lr and saved to a folder as as jpeg.
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« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2012, 12:03:02 PM »

what do you use to resize? ps save as smallest is ok size wise but wrecks the iq
ignore the image atteched here it is a early attempt I saved my mistake.
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« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2012, 12:17:54 PM »

Sorry,
But I am getting somewhat confused.
So far, I haven't seen anything resembling a sepia tone.
Therefore, I am not sure what you have been posting.

If what you posted is what you are using as the source image to print in Qimage, you won't get a sepia print from these images.
How about this question.
Is there any chance that you are printing from a .PSD file from Photo Shop which has the sepia layer, but have made a different image to be used to print from Qimage?

Here's an easy way to send files (up to 2 gigs in size) No charge!

https://www.wetransfer.com/

My email address is wathree.ssz@verizon.net
Terry's is terryand ei_mann@yahoo.co.uk

Fred

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« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2012, 01:07:38 PM »

Thanks for the offer I have found for some reason that if I use the sepia tone preset in LR develop mode and save it then it gets lost or is not shown unless Lr or PS prints it, however for some reason if i add  a sepia tone in PS and reduce the opacity till it matches the print, flatten the 2 layers it and try Qimage then Qimage faithfully prints it. either something odd with my set up or a Lr anomaly anyway I know next time if I want to print sepia tone how to do it.
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