That's neat Fred.  That's one of the few areas of QU I haven't fooled with too much.  So please explain (in 20 words or less!) the other numbers in that screen and why your magenta change didn't totally mess up the skin tone.

Thanks Mike - that makes sense.  Somehow I thought I had done this sometime in the past. Maybe a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. 

I'm just trying to use some photos as title slides with captions for a little family video I'm creating.  I'll try the print-to-file first as I would rather do this in QU; but I do have other ways to do this if I have to.

Thanks

Hi Fred -

Thanks - but I have and am doing all that.  I use floating text frequently in printing so I know the drill pretty well.  I am using Comic Sans Serif font, size 108, bold, color picked with a dropper.  It shows up fine on the prints, but just doesn't show up on the reduced/copied jpegs.  When I get home later, I can send screen shots.  I am wondering if it's the font size which is manually set and is bigger than the largest one in the size drop down.  I can experiment with that idea later.

Have to go out now, but I'd rather go your place for pizza.

mel

Woops - just realized - I think you misunderstood my problem.. Not worrying about copying the text from one print to another - that's not the problem.  The problem is that the text is not showing up on copies of the photos that I make using either "Create E-mail/web size copies" or with the "Convert Images " dialogue.

I am adding floating text and then making new photos.  But the text is not showing up in the copies.  It doesn't matter whether I use the Convert Images dialogue or the Create Email/Web size copies dialogue. In each case I click the Honor print crops and stamps.  Must be something I'm doing wrong - but darn if I know.  Someone - hit me over the head!

Well, Nikon's latest firmware update has doggie facial recognition.  Surely QU wont be far behound.

Not sure what the issue is but whenever I use floating text, I always do a print preview first, then I tweak the text location based on the preview if I need to .

Good stuff!  Looking forward to Mike's video on actually assembling one of these.  Mike - please include provisions for us fumble-finger types.

Probably forgot to turn off the auto-crop on the ice chest.

Fred - I am more concerned about the weather warnings for you and Mike.  - Stay safe.

I use that layout all of the time. Nine 4x6s fit perfectly on a 13x19. Please attach a screenshot so we can see what you are doing and what results you are getting.

Sounds like the print driver might be switching automatically to DRAFT quality for multiple copies.

I suppose maybe it could be a full page editor option "When scrolling to a new page automatically select the first photo on the page."  But something like that would then raise other issues, such as what constitutes the first photo - again an issue for a lot of my printing where I print multiple images to a page and generally do something quite different to each.

I don't understand what the problem is.  I have done exactly what you are saying numerous times.  I often take a pattern jpeg, or monochrome photo and add extreme brightness to fade it and then lay the prints on top.  I then print these as album pages. Is there an aspect of what you want to do that I am missing?

The only reason, and the only time this may not seem to make sense is in the situation where you have only one image per page, I sometimes work like that. But think about the more typical use of QU where you have 3, 4, or even many more images arranged on a page. You have to select the image that you want to crop. Just my 2 cents.

Hey Fred - Happy birthday! Mine is next week.

Your solution is pretty much what I'm doing.  What I'd like to do on this laptop is what I typically do on my moderately large screen PC, scroll through the thumbs and find the winners, losers, and maybe-what-ifs.  Screwing around a little with the display settings on the laptop, maybe can make those thumbs a little bigger.  It's only for a few weeks - I'll make it through.