I have turned sharpening off in Camera Raw and saved as TIF as suggested and the thumbnail and image on the edit page do look less speckled now.

Sue

Thank you for all of your efforts Fred, especially on a Sunday.

I have tried a print and it comes out exactly as the printer driver preview says it will - which is too zoomed in, it seems to be fitting the horizontal axis properly to the bottom of a landscape page but this has meant that the vertical axis does not fit the page and so is cropped. It does not matter if I choose the paper to be landscape or portrait.

I dont think the dog is oversharpened dramatically enough for it to show up on a thumbnail.

Thanks again.
Sue

I turned off borderless in the printer driver, but now it has given me a print with borders, which is not what I want. I want to be able to use the full width of the paper - which my printer is capable of.

Why do you suggest not using ProPhoto?

Sue

The printable area of A4 paper is 210x297mm, i.e. the whole page.

Sue

My printer can print borderless.

I have attached jpeg of details requested.

I tried turning the cropping scissors on but it made no difference - I dragged the corner to fill the page as before.

Sue

I am printing on A4 paper - 210x297mm is A4. I wanted the image to fit the page and so I chose that option first but because the print preview was wrong I tried the 203.2x254.0 size and then edited the page to drag the corner of the image to fill one dimension of the page.

The resolution of the TIF image is 3555x2894.

The thumb quality is already set to best.

Sue

Hi, I'm getting a bit exasperated with Qimage Ultimate and almost getting to the point of giving up on it.

I have a laptop with Windows 7 64 bit OS, HP B8850 printer. My camera is a Canon 550D. I almost always shoot RAW and process the images in PS5 Camera Raw. To allow Qimage to print my processed images I save them as TIF in Camera Raw. I have the latest version of Qimage and I have just reinstalled my printer driver because of the problems I'm having.

What is happening at the moment is the thumbnails of the TIF images are not appearing correctly in the folder as viewed from Qimage. They appear speckly which may be due to them being lower resolution than they should be. When I place them on the printing page, they are still speckly. When I edit the page they are still speckly when I do a HQ view and soft proof. For all of these things, the images are appearing the correct size. If I choose to print, then the print preview from the printer driver shows the image zoomed in filling the page and cropped which is not how I had placed it.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Sue

I originally only put 1.5mm to give a rough idea of what I was doing.

I did a test yesterday making the photo longest side 250mm and this worked fine, so it is something to do with the longest side being 277mm.

I can't do any more testing for a couple of days as I don't have access to my printer - we have now got lots of floor boards up as we are putting satellite dish cabling and network cabling in.

Thanks for your help.

Sue

277 x 191.8mm is the print size I want.

I'm not sure what you mean by changing the expansion in the driver. There is a parameter in the driver called Overspray. It is currently set to Automatic, the only other option is Change - I have not changed this setting. I use Borderless in the driver most of the time.

I thought the max resolution of B8850 was 4800 x 1200 so I'm confused about the 1200 x 1200.

I tried having the photo centred and then nudged it to the top of the page but in the HP print preview (I did not want to waste any more ink and paper) it still showed the photo taking up the full A4 page with no borders.

Sue

Hi Terry,

I select a custom print size and state the long side to be 2cm less than A4 i.e. 277mm. In the page editor I set the left border to be 10mm which results in the photo being centred horizontally. I then add floating text under the photo.

I've included a screen shot of the page editor (before adding floating text.)

The queue says the print is 277.0mm x 191.8mm.

On my latest attempt I had already cropped the photo in Photoshop to the desired proportions. The crop scissors are not visible on the main Qimage screen. See second screen shot.

Already seen video on borderless printing, thanks. Read Mike's article.

Sue

I am trying to print a photo on A4 landscape paper with the photo printing to the top edge of the paper, with 1cm border on the left and right of the photo, and 1.5cm border at the bottom of the border. The bottom border has floating text at the centre.

The photo is a JPG from a Panasonic FZ38. The printer is HP8850. I am using the latest Qimage Ultimate.

I have tried various ways of printing this in Qimage. The layout looks right on the screen but the print always fills the whole A4 page without any borders. I have even developed and cropped the image in Photoshop CS5 and tried printing it in Qimage but I still get the same problem.

What am I doing wrong?

Sue

Please could you tell me the difference between Saturation on the Adjust tab in the Image editor and the Selective Color Filter. I have read the Help on the Selective Color Filter but I can't find any Help on Saturation on the Adjust tab. What does the saturation number on the Adjust tab represent - a percentage, a number up to 255, or what? When would you use one rather than the other?

Thanks.

Have downloaded 112 and have not yet had the problem, so it seems OK now.

Thanks for your help.

I am in the UK.

The small part of the photo that appears is only about 0.5" high, sometimes about the same width but sometimes up to 1.25" wide - it is obviously an error, not the preview window.

I do see the full image when I see the crop in the image editor.

I have now viewed a number of raw images in the image editor. Sometimes they load OK but I have had at least one that I have not done any edits to that has not been visible when first going into the editor. So far all of them have developed the problem at some stage.

I have just emailed you a copy of the screen when the image is not visible - sorry but I could not work out how to get it in this post.

I wonder if it is some sort of memory problem. I have had Qimage running for at least a couple of days without quitting. I did not want to quit as I am not sure whether future test prints would then have the water mark on them as this is just the trial version.

Thanks for your help.

The bottom one is where the problem happens.