But what if the adjustments for a specific image contain other alterations?

OK . I see what you mean.

Clear out all the other adjustments and just alter that +Levels slider.

Then save it as a filter.

I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Thanks Terry

Tony

I photographed a cabaret last night. Rubbish lighting, 4,000 ASA and a cracking good F1.2 lens got me some shots.

QU made quite a good stab. Snag is there were men (and ladied) in black suits/frocks against an overlit background. For most of the frames I have had to lift the default 'Fill' on the RAW interpreter.

This has quite often made the black attire light grey and I need in the +Levels panel in Edit to move the Shadow slider across to about the 16 mark.

As far as I see I cannot save that setting as a single filter (or can I?). My thought was to emulate it on the Curves panel by clicking on where the diagonal reads 16 and pullling it down to zero. Curves it seems can be saved.

I have about 100 shots to correct. Would you wizards say this is the best way to go about it?

Tony

Thanks Terry,

Both videos were most informative.

But the best news was to see what other videos were around. A lot are not on the library page that comes up from within QU. For example the cloning/masking one done by Mike where he removes the letter box.

I'll have a roam around the YouTube suggestions when I have my next spare moments.

Tony

Thanks Terry.

Speed is not important as the culling takes quite a while so this is dead time as far as QU is concerned.

I did some more work using and removing that ODR check box. Am I right in thinking that it applies the ODR balancing across the whole image - whereas drawing a rectangle for ODR makes the balance based on what is within the rectangle?


Tony

Thanks Fred,

HRH is still looking good. There is a bit of concern about the impending visit from President Chump. I am all in favour of him coming in the hope that some of our modesty might rub off on him - but I fear he will not notice. Conversation over lunch yesterday was that he was grooming the daughter to take over as President.

On the subject of HRH a pal of ours has just bought a flat not far from us where Princess Margaret used to visit for afternoon tea and play the piano. We met the previous flat owner. To say she is well connected is an understatement.

One of my godsons has just started to work for Mario Testino. If I get to meet the great man I'll have to ask him if he has tried Qimage Ultimate on his RAWs - but I guess he does not even load his own cards and batteries these days.

Happy days.

Tony

Thanks Fred,

Yes, you know me well enough by now. I guess we started chatting here in around 2002.

Most of my photography is 'event photography'. Take 600 shots. Cull them to avoid duplicates and post them to my web site as quickly as possible. Nine times out of ten I could probably even rely on the jpgs from the camera and forget about RAW. But I shoot RAW as I know it probably can retrieve a usable image from the one in ten that I expose incorrectly. Most people I know shooting RAW run it through Lightroom using a 'catch all' package of settings, again to save time. I am sure that every image they convert could be made 'better' but that is not the point - it is made usable enough for a web folder.

Almost all my QU questions are directed to finding ways of finding 'catch all' settings in QU - so I am as fast as my Lightroom pals. Hence my query last week about screen refreshing and my lack of ability to move on to another image whilst a cache was building . Likewise my query about bulk Raw Refine when Mike recommended working seven RAWs at a time and leaving one core to handle the GUI. When I load a batch of images to my PC from a camera card I let QU start building the RAW caches in the background whilst I am using Fast Picture Viewer to do my culling - all to save time.

Now I see that I can tick the ODR box and bulk apply it in Raw Refine to every RAW I'll give it a try. If more of my RAWs are improved than degraded I'll have saved myself time.

Your videos are great and show the full flexibility of QU. I use those techniques when I have an image that is to be printed or reproduced by a third party. But please accept that I need to have two ways of working - one for perfection and one for speed.

Thanks again for the pointers. None are wasted.

Tony

Searching did not find me the answer so can I ask:-

As I seem to find ticking the box gives me a better range in the RR screen is there a way of setting it to apply every time - as the other Raw Format Options are set in Preferences.

Or maybe that is not what the tick box is intended for - so if that is the case can you explain it please?

New version 104 working fine now. Thanks Mike.

Tony

The beta works fine, Mike.

Well done.

I have only tried it on one PC but the two machines are as near identical as possible. I'll test the other later today.

EDIT.   Works fine on the second PC.

Many thanks.

Tony

No real reason, Mike. Just wanting to ring the changes.

I have now selected the top two lines of thumbnails.

In 217 http://www.tonygamble.uk/QimageThumbnails/20170705-143745_1_3.mp4

In 218 http://www.tonygamble.uk/QimageThumbnails/20170705-144011_1_3.mp4

I think that second one runs for about two minutes 45 secs before the panel becomes usable again.

Tony

I think 18.103 worked for the first time I reverted from v17 - but then became slow. I need more time to confirm this but need to go out now. I'll experiment again later.

No. It was either luck or bad memory on my part. I have reverted  from v2017 to the latest v2018 and even the first multiple RAW refine was hopelessly slow

2017 does all I need as most of the variations in 2018 are to do with printing. Yes, I use QU for printing but its main use for me is converting RAW files.

Nevertheless I will be fascinated to hear what Mike says he introduced that may be causing my malfunction.

Tony

Yes it was going back to the old software that did it.

None of the other actions made any difference.

This is what the old software performs like.

http://www.tonygamble.uk/QimageThumbnails/20170705-082500_2_2.mp4


I have gone back to 18.103. Sometimes it works and sometimes it will not clear that refine screen. With the old 17 software it works without a delay every time. There is a difference. I'll stay with v17 until we work out what the difference is.

I think 18.103 worked for the first time I reverted from v17 - but then became slow. I need more time to confirm this but need to go out now. I'll experiment again later.

Tony

Thanks Mike.

I have tried all the things you mentioned.

I then re-installed QU17-121 and the problem went away.

I have to go out to take some photos but I'll try to make a video asap and you can see what happens.

Tony

I would guess that your entire machine is locked down until the raw cache counter gets to 5/7.  To test that, try this: do the same thing you did in your video and while the QU screen is still unresponsive and showing that partial refine screen, try opening another program that isn't already open: like Chrome, FireFox, MS Word, or some other "small" program.  I bet they won't even open until QU gets to that 5/7 on the raw cache counter; in other words, QU is becoming responsive when the machine itself becomes responsive.

I can open them - but I can't close them. I hit the close button and the screen does not clear back to QU.

Do have any suggestions as to how I can cure this?

Tony

Thanks Mike,

I have never felt sure both my machines were running as fast as your system expects.

This is the flash screen,



When I was having troubles with overheating I started to look at this core temp prog. I wondered why I was seeing four cores and I was told that was normal as they were being treated as eight. Is this where the problem is?



Ony four cores?


I am out of my depth here. I do hope you can help, Mike.

Tony

WET is still having troubles so I have put a video file on my own server.

http://www.tonygamble.uk/QimageThumbnails/20170704-164501_0_4.mp4

I apologise for the rubbish sound. I have not fully worked out how this USB mike works but if you turn the volume up you can hear a bit of what I am saying.

Another one here. Slightly better sound. I will master it !!

http://www.tonygamble.uk/QimageThumbnails/20170704-172110_1_3.mp4

Maybe this takes us a bit forward as to my problem?

Tony