I see your point Mike and even with my new Studio upgrade I can appreciate what can be done with a RAW file.  However, although you can do something HDRish with a single image there remain scenes with a dynamic range that exceeds the sensor range (which let's face it is only 8 or 9 stops at most. Unless you're disgustingly wealthy and own a medium format digital back).  The whole point of HDR is that it will take a range of values that are H(igher) than the Dynamic Range of the camera sensor and produce an image with a dynamic range that can be displayed on 'normal' devices (printers/monitors/iPhones etc) and that can only be done with multiple exposures.  Sensor range is relevant for true HDR - otherwise they'd have called it something else. 
That is what it is, regardless of how it is used or abused. A single image HDR is not strictly HDR as the dynamic range of the image is within that of the camera sensor (assuming you've exposed correctly and the dynamic range of the scene is within that of the sensor etc).  Splitting hairs; what you will end up with is an image processed with  the appropriate software for an HDR effect.
What you have produced is something that takes the available range of the sensor (ADR - available dynamic range?) and seems to adjusts very nicely thank you very much for the extremes in that range - not HDR though by definition.  I would agree totally that for the majority of cases you possibly wouldn't 'need' HDR to produce a realistic image, especially with Qimage, but for a lot of images, even those within dynamic range, reality often isn't what you're aiming for.


Paul.

3M ATG gun and double stick transfer huh ?  Have to look in to that one especially if it's archival so big thanks for pointing that out.

Paul

Actually Seth I'd much rather people kept my picture and threw the card away .
What I figured out in the end was to make a duplicate of the image in Photoshop and fill it with solid white. Then in QImage I print this with a black border and voila - a cut out line on my greetings card.  I created a Photoshop action to create the duplicate and save it and the whole process sort of works - not what you'd describe as a workflow by any means though.
The whole idea is pretty much a non starter though as the greetings card blanks I bought are quite flimsy (about half the weight of the paper the image is going to be printed on), so by the time you cut a window in the card, carefully tape the image to the back so it lines up with the window ... it actually looks like a really floppy piece of crap   I wouldn't buy one !
Back to spray mount I guess (unless anybody has any better ideas for sticking an image to a piece of card).  The 'concept' was to provide something cheap and cheerful at an upcoming exhibition as an alternative to the more expensive framed work, I suppose I could (try to) sell mounted A5's beautifully presented in cellophane bags ....
Either way back to the drawing board.
Thanks for the quick responses though.  Must admit I'm happy with QImage so far, placing multiple images on a sheet is a breeze, trying to do the same in Photoshop was a nightmare so the cost is justified already for me.  Havn't tried a large print yet but I've got a couple to do for said exhibition - I'm waiting to be impressed.

Cheers
Paul

Ok, here's what I'd like to do.  I'm printing a number of images on a sheet of A3+, when these are cut out they are going to be mounted in a cut out window in a card that folds in half to A5 size.  My theory is that this will make a nice, quality postcard or something that can be immediately framed if required.  It would be really handy if I could just print out the image frame onto said card to give me a guideline to cut out the window to take the little print.  I'm using my shiny new copy of QImage to print on to the A3 sheet and also as a guideline to help me position the print 'nicely' on the A5 card.  So many measurements though, I've got quite a few of these to produce and a printed image guideline would save me a lot of time not to mention cash for the swear box !