I can't recall where I've seen this, but I thought I saw a ring-around where there are multiple prints in various color changes with the normal one in the center, then one for exposure, and one for contrast?  Was it some other version of Qimage or some else that did that?

If not, maybe on a wish list?  Maybe to be incorporated where one could select the best print of the ring-around and then it updates the settings in its Editor settings?

Color Ring-Arounds for:
1. Exposure
2. Contrast
3. Color (e.g. A "Coarse" similar to the Editor's settings of 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and then a "Fine" of 1.0, 1.02, 1.04, 1.06, etc.)

Maybe Ring-Arounds for Black and White too:
1. Exposure
2. Contrast
3. Tints (e.g. Sepia, Cyanotype, Platinum, Silver, Albumen, Daguerreotype for metallic papers, etc. then a "Fine" for the degree of tint as above Color.)


Mack

Ray,

My Canon 9000 MK II has been working fine since the original crash of 2012.100 in Windows 7 64.  Once I exited the "QI has stopped working and is shutting down" message, it remained on in the background on full screen and it continued the printing like it hadn't thrown up the error code at all.  Maybe some first time bug getting into the printer's software, but it's been fine ever since and hasn't crashed.  First time 2012.100 hiccup maybe?


Mack

Interesting.

I just had 2012.100 crash (Not responding and closing) in Win 7 64 using a Canon 9000 Mark II this AM.  I set up trying to do 2 prints on one 5x7.  Set Columns to 1 and Rows to 2 and I hit the print button and it immediately crashed.  Oddly, when I clicked off the "Crash message" and it disappeared, it then began printing as it should. 

I reopened and tried it a second time (first print run above needed some fine tuning) and it didn't crash and went to the printer as it should.  Same settings as above.  Dunno. 

Mack

I recently discovered my TIFF files out of Photoshop CS5 are 48 bit.  I've been playing with ProPhoto lately and something is messed up.  Some, depending on some CS5 Actions I've used, will drop from 48 bit to 24 bit when I look at their internal data.

If I go right from the camera via JPG or NEF (Nikon) images look fine in QI 2012 and print the same using the profiles I have for the papers I made using Prism 7.

If I go through Photoshop and do some PP work and save as a TIFF, the thumbnails in QI look reddish are dark.  Prints aren't much better.

Something is screwy in my PS CS5 somewhere or some other profiles are crossing over someplace.  I have Paint Shop Pro X3 as well as DataColor Spyder so something is messing up the TIF's in CS5 and QI is not liking it.  I know from CS5 (64 bit) to PSP X3 issues can result in screen color and output.  PSP X3 is back in 8 bit era or somewhere.

Don't know why it looks great in CS5 and I save to TIFF and QI2012 will see it as red and dark in the thumbnails?  BMP out of CS5 to QI2012 are a bit better, but still off.   


Mack

About that middle 13-255 number (Green?), is that worrying about or can it be made better?  That is the last part when it processed the curves.  I thought they should all be 0-255, but maybe not?

Mack

Mike, if you read the first sentence at the top of page 2 (this page), my typing *.JPE does return the images with the *.JPEG extension.  There's a screenshot too showing that too.  That Search part is okay.

If I type or Search *.JPG in Explorer, Windows does not show the *.JPEG files as it should not, but it shows the JPG files correctly.

So if all other imaging programs I have run and work with either *.JPEG or *.JPG image files except for QU, then it is the OS at fault?  Really?  If I can drag-and-drop a *.JPEG into QU then it opens it in the Print Side only and allows me to process it if I double-click it, but it refuses to show in the Viewer or Template pane then it is the OS at fault?  If so, then 5 other programs including Widows Preview and Explorer shouldn't work either.

I'm sorry, but 5 other image programs are showing both the JPG or JPEG image here, just not QU for some reason.  I'm wondering if it some bug in QU since the implementation of RAW processing where the JPEG/JPG is hidden in the RAW/NEF and not showing or reading the image in the template or view side.

Five other working imaging programs says yours is wrong.


Mack

Oh well.  At least I can rename the JPEG file, or process it to a JPG in Photoshop CS5 in order for QU to see it and open in it in its viewer.

Oddly, I can also drag-and-drop the JPEG image into QU from Windows Explorer and it will open the file in the Print Window too and I can double-click on it and work with it,  just it refuses to show the thumbnail in the View window along with the Template thumbnail there.

Tried rebuilding/resetting QU too and no joy.  Drag-and-Drop works on JPEG though, just no thumbnails.

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Here's a screenshot of the 'Drag-and-Drop' of a JPEG into QU.  You can see the image and its "Info" (I clicked it ON) in the Print Window and it shows it being a JPEG extension, just nothing in the Template side where the JPG image is.


Mack

Mike, the *.jpe Search shows the jpeg images as you suggested.  The one I still have with the *.jpg that opens in QU doesn't show in that Search (as it should).

First attachment below in Explorer shows the *.jpe Search results and those two files as requested.  The jpg one is absent as expected.


The second image attachment shows that Paint Shop Pro X3 (as well as CS5) opens both the jpeg and the jpg files.  The image below those two files (i.e. "Temp 9" where I have those jpeg and jpg files stored) is the screenshot of QU showing only the jpg file and not the jpeg ones.  Weird.

I cannot get IE9 to download those files without IE9 changing the jpeg extensions to jpg automatically.  Maybe Microsoft has recently done something (or some security patch?) by not allowing a jpeg extension to be downloaded for some reason only known to them?  Firefox 6 does it though (I haven't tried going back to a prior version yet.).

Fwiw, I just tried the "Save Image" with the "Opera" browser.  It allows me to save it as the jpeg too, same as Firefox does.  Only IE9 is auto-changing the extension and allowing me to work on the "Save Image" in QU.  Opera is also dead to QU on the jpegs I get here using it.

What is puzzling is "Why does Windows Preview, Photoshop CS5, Irfanview, and Paintshop Pro X3 open either a jpeg or jpg file here, but QU doesn't?"
It only will let me work on and view a jpg.  A bit puzzling too is why the "Details" icons in Windows (File) Explorer show the blue PS icon for the jpg and not the same for the jpeg one even though CS5 opens it by default as it does with the jpg too?  Something is missed up somewhere between a jpg and a jpeg.  Renaming them to jpg works for QU though so not a big issue as I could do a 'Batch Rename *.jpeg to *.jpg' if needed to make them show in QU and allow me to work with them.


Mack

Terry, I just tried "Save images" with Internet Explorer instead of Firefox 6.0 and it downloads and saves them as jpg files and not jpeg. 

I don't know why Firefox 6.0 is saving them as jpeg, although I checked the source code on the image page and they are indeed jpeg extensions.  Internet Explorer changes them automatically to jpg.  Firefox 6 does not.

Qimage sees the Internet Explorer jpg images that it downloaded, but IE may have taken care of that with their auto-name (i.e. jpeg to jpg) change too.

I'll look to see how much issues I will have to roll back Firefox to 5.  I know a lot of plug-ins aren't up to speed with 6.0 yet.

Still don't know why Windows file manager (or Explorer) does not show the icons the same between jpg (with the blue PS icon) and jpeg (a blank page) but both open with Photoshop where QU won't even see the jpeg extension.  Must be something in the jpeg header or something that is affecting the jpeg icon as well QU?  But this is happening on Firefox 6.0 downloads that go to jpeg only.  IE isn't an issue since it renames them to the 3 letter extension.


Mack

This is happening on Windows 7 64-bit Ulitmate.  Maybe an "Ultimate" fault?  Browser is Firefox 6.0 Beta.

This screenshot shows something different with the icons between the jpg image and the two jpeg ones.

Weird, but the blue icon on the jpg one is PS (Photoshop CS5) and the two 'blank page' looking icons will open in Photoshop though.  Qimage still will not acknowledge the jpegs here though.  

Windows 7 Ultiimate version issues maybe?


Mack

Mike, no Mac here.  Just "Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate" version.

Just tried it again.  With the jpeg ending nothing in Qimage shows.  I change it to jpg and it shows in Qimage 2011.136.  If I change back to jpeg it disappears in Qimage.

Okay.  Here are the three image direct links.  If you right click on them (Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate) and "Save Image As.." to wherever, say a "C:\Temp" folder, I cannot get them in Qimage Ulitmate to show at all.  I even tried "Thumb Builder" and "Build All Thumbs/Cache.." and still nothing shows, but they do open in CS5 in that same folder as well as Windows Explorer (their File Manager) or Windows Preview with their jpeg extension.  I change it to jpg and only then does it show in Qimage.  







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I just put all images into a "Temp 9" folder.  I assigned Qimage Ultimate to open one of the jpeg images with a right click on it > Open with > Qimage Ultimate.exe.  Notice that it opens that image in the Print Window (right-side window of Qimage), but it will not show where the "Template" or normal Thumbnails normally show in the left window?  Neither do the other two jpegs images in that same Temp 9 folder.

If I change them to jpg, they will show in the left Thumbnail window (*If this Attach of my screenshot is working on the 121KB upload I hope!).

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Okay, here is a screenshot showing the jpeg that I changed to jpg showing in the left window.  I can move it to the right Print window as normal.  However, the other two images in that same Temp 9 folder do not show that have the jpeg extension on them.  Bug?




Mack

Terry-

Really?

Here is the site.  http://nikonrumors.com/2011/07/07/you-can-now-attach-nikon-lenses-to-an-iphone.aspx/

Some Nikon lenses being mounted on an iPhone 4.  Three images and each has the jpeg extension.

I downloaded all 3 of them.  Qimage Ultimate 2011.136 would not open them in my Download folder.  However, Photoshop CS5 would.  If I changed the name to jpg then Qimage works.  Might be something to do with the hyphens in the main name and the jpeg both?

 

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I just changed the photos above back to the original jpeg extension and Qimage loses them again when I went back to the Downloads folder.  Something is buggy.  Windows 7 64-bit, and 2011.136 here.

 

Mack

I don't know why, but Qimage Ultimate doesn't want to open a jpeg extension unless I rename it to a jpg extension (omit the letter 'e').

I just got three photos with jpeg extensions on the web and it didn't open them or show them as thumbnails until I renamed them and then the thumbnails show and then I could print them.  I could open either the jpg or the jpeg in Photoshop CS5, just that Qimage doesn't recognize that jpeg extension.

Mack

Think I solved the walking punch-outs. 

I fed the paper into the Canon 9000 Mark II via the front feed which basically is a flat-feed for its printhead.  Seems the rear feed upright tray puts their Platinum Pro paper through the rollers and that bending seems to cause an issue with the alignment.  The flat-feed worked better for the profiling.

I also found if I select "MORE" in Vuescan, I could make it behave much like prior versions.  I did check 'On' the "Sharpen" and did 4 passes as default at 1200 DPI and I ended up with only 39 squares as bad, a lot better than the 1800+ I was getting earlier on.  I made a profile from that and all seems well now with the Platinum Pro paper.  It's a borderline thick paper for the rear feed.  Profile Prism liked flat-feed (front) much better for less white punch-outs walking about.

I see my final profile results were 0-255, 13-255, 0-255 for the RGB from the profile it made.  Don't know why the Green channel is 13-255 as the printer has Magenta, Photo Magenta, and Green ink as well?  Least it is working and the density seems very good between the monitor, Qimage Ultimate, and the output from the Canon 9000 Mark II now.


Mack

Okay.  I see Vuescan has made a major re-work of their interface on version 9.0.48 now if you look.  The RAW is a bit harder to find too, but I think I got it.  They really moved stuff around and removed some stuff too over earlier versions.

The paper I'm having issues with is the "Canon Platinum Pro."  It may be just too thick for the rear feed of the printer even though the instructions says it's okay to do it from there.  I had no issues with the Canon Glossy Pro II paper and the punch-outs were where they should be.

I just made another print out of it and it is even worse than the first and 437 squares are reported wrong vs. the 63 prior.  The punch-outs are moving way to the left now and even completely into the adjacent squares before they move back to the right and end in the middle of the right side.  They do not shift up or down in position, just side to side.

Fwiw, I also have a smaller Epson Charm PM-225 portable that does only 4x6 inch prints and I had no issue getting the punch-outs to center even on the smaller paper format and yield a good profile, but this was with version Vuescan 9.0.47 and not this newer one (9.0.48).  Odd.

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This new version of Vuescan 9.0.48 is giving me far more errors for some reason with the clipping count, which is up to around 1800 now.  Aside, I decided to try and do a front-feed (which is flat through the printer) with the Canon Platinum Pro paper and that seems to have settled down the marching white punch-outs a lot.  Must be some curl thing as it feeds through the rollers that Profile Prism doesn't like in the alignment.  It still isn't the greatest alignment, but I found if I put the red corners further out to the right of the TIF print the squares will stay 'somewhat centered' within the borders of the colored squares and not rest on them.

I also got this screenshot error (attached busted.jpg) but I suspect it was the 2400 DPI RAW scan I tried and Prism Profile would not open it and just crashed.  If I try 1200 or less scan, it will open and run.

Needs to be a new "Profile Prism Manual" for this latest version of Vuescan.  Profile Prism refers to 'Gamma' and there is none labeled that on this newest version (nor the last few either).


Mack