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1  Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Setting Output Levels (white/black point) on: November 05, 2009, 09:28:23 PM
 Grin Thanks - that's great. I've opted to go with the typing option; don't think this late on a Thursday I could be that accurate with the mouse!

I was very hopeful that it could be done -QImage does everything else I could ask of it.

Thanks again
Matthew.
2  Mike's Software / Qimage / Setting Output Levels (white/black point) on: November 05, 2009, 12:24:49 PM
Typically before I print any image I will adjust the Output Levels in Photoshop. Via the Levels dialog I'll compress the tonal range of the image by say setting the black output point to be 10, and the white point to be 254. Reason being is that the I know my printer/paper/ink combination will render anything less that 10 to be solid black, and antying above 254 to be pure white. If there is any detail at these extremes the final print will loose it. Although on screen it looks 'wrong' when printed the difference can give you give an improvement.

(This trick came from the Fine Art Printing for Photographers book - that also recommends QImage!)

It would vastly improve my workflow if I could do this via QImage. Although I've seen the levels filter it is not obvious to me that this achieves what I want to do. Anybody suggest if indeed this possible?

Thanks!
Matthew
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