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Mike's Software / Qimage / Sharpening and paper
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on: September 06, 2012, 06:36:04 AM
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Hi again.
I have used mainly luster and glossy paper. The output sharpening is made by Qimage Pro and I have been happy with the result.
Now I have started to use matte and fine art paper as well.
A very simple but basic question: Should I increase the sharpening in Qimage? (all other variables fixed). Matte paper needs more sharpening than glossy, and does Qimage take this into account or should I do it myself?
/fox
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Original size not honoured
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on: August 25, 2012, 04:32:08 PM
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Some images show a DPI and most often that is blank.
Maybe I misunderstood this. Mine are not blank. The DPI/PPI is crystal clear to me. I'm still wondering what happened as described above. Next time I'll try to trace it better. Thx for your effort though! |
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Original size not honoured
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on: August 25, 2012, 02:34:32 PM
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With all respect. (Nearly) all you write is familiar to me.
Take an equation A = B / C. If you know any two variables, you can calculate the third. So it useless to debate which two you have start with. Some people think with pixels and resolution, some with pixels and print size. Neither is right or wrong.
I checked several of my images, and all of those had dimensions and resolution embedded, none of them had print size embedded. Attach is an example of one. I did not know that you can have an image without resolution. And as far as I know there is no field for print size in exif data. There are fields for resolution and dimensions.
As for the original problem, I would expect that using the Original size with images with text, would give better result than any recalculation, however intelligent algorithm.
And I am not talking about scanned photographs from grandmothers here, I am talking about images with vector text (converted to tiff, because Qimage cant handle psds with vector data).
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Original size not honoured
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on: August 25, 2012, 07:07:10 AM
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One of Qimage's major features is that it does always re-size an image to a resolution equal to the native resolution of the printer
I know, thats one of the reasons that I use Qimage. forget what PS & similar have to do to size an image
You did not get it. I make the image in PS from scratch. You cannot make an image if you do not set the size  I suspect that is because the embedded size data in the image is in imperial - we always talk about ppi not pixels per cm.
The embedded data is resolution (ppi) and pixels, nothing else. The size in cm (or inches) is calculated from them. Qimage shows the size in cm in the print queue but not in the status row. For example PS, Bridge and Irfanview show the size in cm. [/quote] |
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Original size not honoured
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on: August 24, 2012, 06:01:41 PM
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Sorry I cannot be more specific. I recreated the image and overwrote the mystery file.
I use Photoshop. Most of the times I print with 'Fit to page' with no problem. Sometimes I make an image with a specific size (ppi & size in cm). And the problem comes with these files.
If I have set a certain size in PS, I expect Qimage to use it. I dont want Qimage to rescale it at all, because in the image there is text which should be crisp.
The same thing happened to me some months ago. At that time a investigated the problem and I recall that it had to do something with creating the image in PS and resizing it in PS. If I remember right the size of the original was not honoured but in the copy it was. Or maybe it was the other way. Unfortunately I could not find those files and could not recreate the problem. (Next time I'll put them aside...)
/fox
ps. when I move the cursor in the thumbnails in Qimage, Qimage shows the file details in the status row (exif hotbar). My units are set metric in the preferences, but the print size is still Imperial...
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Unequal borders - again
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on: January 03, 2011, 11:47:29 AM
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- Set your print size to "Custom", "Specific Size", and then enter the print (template) size. Given that the 3mm margin is what the printer is using, set your print size to 14mm smaller (7 on each side) than the horizontal printable area listed above the preview page for the width. Then for the height, take the vertical printable area, subtract your 34mm (total borders), and divide by two because you have two prints vertically.
- Using "Freehand" placement (selected under the preview page), drag two templates to the page, dropping them approximately in the correct positions. They should be the size specified above as long as your "crop" button was on/down when you specified your size.
- Go to the full page editor and click on the top template, click the "Size/Loc" tab on the right, and enter 10mm in both the left and top positions: that'll space the print 10mm from the left edge of the page and 10mm from the top.
- Select the bottom template and on the "Size/Loc" tab, enter 10mm in both the left and bottom positions: that'll space the print 10mm from the left and 10mm from the bottom of the page.
- Click "Done" to close the full page editor and your setup should be complete.
- Click "File", "Save", click the "L" button at the bottom for "Layout", and give the layout a name.
Now when you click "Custom", "Layout", you should see the file name you saved. Open it and add anything you like and the templates will be filled with whatever photos you use.
Mike
This worked like a charm. Thank you! The accuracy is quite good. Because Qimage does not accept size 128.5 mm, I had to use 190 x 128 mm. The extra 1 mm will show between the two images making the gap between the two images 21 mm (instead of 20 mm). This accuracy is fine with me. Using Freehand/Size/Loc and Templates were both new to me. I wonder what else is in Qimage that I am not aware of? /fox |
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Unequal borders - again
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on: January 03, 2011, 11:39:16 AM
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To clarify, Margins are related to the whole page; Borders are for images to be printed on the page.
Those are Qimage terms, Epson uses Borderless meaning No Margins in Qimage. No wonder one gets confused! /fox |
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: Unequal borders - again
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on: December 31, 2010, 04:45:23 PM
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I moved my answer into this thread where it belongs. Mike's diagram in the quote is in another thread: http://ddisoftware.com/tech/qimage/adding-borders/30/Looks pretty simple to me. In that diagram, you didn't specify any colors but it looks like you have two potential border colors going on: the one that would be showing where the 3's are and another border where the 7's and 10's are. What I'd do in this case is create an image with the color you want for the outer border (where the 3's show) and a second image for the inner border (where the 7's and 10's show). Take the outer border and size it to the dimensions shown in your diagram. Then take the inner border and size it 6mm smaller in both dimensions and place it on top of the outer border, centered. Now you have your two borders. Now just drag two templates that are the size you want and place the top template 10mm from the top and the bottom 10mm from the bottom. Then save that as a layout and you can open that layout and use it any time you like and fill those two templates with whatever images you like.
I created this layout in a few minutes (see attached). Only hitch I had was that it was difficult to select the templates in the full page editor because there were three images on top of one another. To make it simpler, you could do the same thing by just specifying a page background color for your outer border and then just use one additional image for the other color. That leaves only two images on top of each other and makes the toggle-to-select feature in the full page editor work better.
Long story short: I created the attached, saved it as a layout, and now I can load this layout any time I like using "Custom" size and then layout... and I can just add images and they fill the templates.
Mike Just to clarify, the 3 mm border in my diagram is the margin that the Epson printer "creates" without using the borderless print. Your solution looks promising. /fox ps. the words 'margin' and 'border' seem to have different meaning in Qimage and Epson. English is not my native language, so for me they are the same. |
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: adding borders
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on: December 30, 2010, 08:32:24 AM
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Actually, the multi postings demonstrate interest in the topic, and others who wanted to do similar things too.
No wonder. Borders is one of the main reasons for me to use Qimage. /fox |
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: adding borders
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on: December 29, 2010, 01:55:19 PM
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That made it, thanks. (It seems that you can do the same in the queue, right click and move up/down).
There seem to be an odd logic how Qimage add the images to the queue.
I made extra borders in Photoshop (red in the attachment image). They are 3 mm and the green and blue are 7 mm (Qimage) giving a total 10 mm border (3 mm margin in the Epson driver). Now you can cut the sheet three times giving 4 photos with even borders in each.
I find this quite tedious. Nearly the same you can do in Adobe Brigde (output to pdf, tweaking the 6 borders/margins there).
Hopefully we can see separate margins in Qimage someday!
/fox
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: adding borders
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on: December 29, 2010, 11:35:32 AM
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You forgot to go to FREEHAND MODE, or, you are not dragging the image on to the same page. No I did not. And I am dragging them. I am using Qimage Pro, v2010-209 Steps 1 to 4 are ok and I do exactly as you suggested (well, for step 1 I created a A4 page in Photoshop, but it comes fine in Qimages view pane). For step 5 I tried several combinations. Here are two versions: 5.a.1 - I changed print size to 102 x 127 5.a.2 - I dragged the images one by one 5.b.1. - I clicked the image thumb 5.b.2. - I changed print size to 102 x 127 5.b.3 - I dragged the images one by one It seems that this time they are all in one page, but they are behind each other. If I change the size of background image in full screen mode, you can see this. For some reason the background image is number four in the queue of five. I would expect it to be first. |
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Mike's Software / Qimage / Re: adding borders
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on: December 29, 2010, 09:50:26 AM
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1) Scan a blank sheet of white paper, 8.5 x 11. Save as a JPG
2) Open that in Qimage using a black border (or any color) and set it for FIT TO PAGE.
3) Now you have a white print with your border as the background. Right click on the preview panel with the white page, and click DESELECT
We do that so our next size selection will not change the FIT TO PAGE size of the background.
4) Click the little red "F" and say OK to tun on Freehand mode.
5) Select your new size and border color for the top prints and *DRAG* your smaller images on to the white image.
Thanks for the tip, I tried that. 1) 2) 3) 4) ok 5) whatever I do, the images go to page 2 and 3 and ... How do you exactly do 5) ?, select your new size...? /fox ps. it seems that it is easier for me to add the necessary borders and exact size in Photoshop, that's a pity because otherwise Qimage wins PS 6-0, in this case only 7-6 (after tiebreak) |
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