I love the way the size drop down works now - really helps when putting different sizes on the same sheet.  But one annoying thing, while I can drag it to any point on the screen, as soon as I click a thumb, the drop down pops back and covers most of the page image.  This is mainly a problem when doing drag and drop free hand placement.  I would like to have the drop down stay wherever I drag it until I move it elsewhere.  Gripe gripe gripe with an occasional whine. 

Well, I know I'm always reporting issues here that turn out to be my own mental short circuits - and perhaps this is another one.  In some folders, there will be one or two thumbs that remain constantly in a state of "Loading . . ."  If I open the same folder in Studio, the thumb shows fine.  Even in QU, nothing hangs or anything and in fact QU will load the image into the Queue and if I change or create a filter then the thumb will show (come to think of it - this seems to only happen to pictures that don't yet have a filter - but certainly even not to most of them.)  This one is certainly not a big issue, and like most things that happen to me, probably isn't happening to anyone else - but it is rather curious.

Shor nuff - there it was.  Mike - if you really wanted to get rich - you could make that screen say anything you want - like "By clicking Yes, user agrees to send Mike Chaney $(name a dollar amount). "  I would already be in the poor house, or maybe divorce court. All I can say is  - Doh!

Mike -

Thanks - I thought it would be something braindead like that.  Don't remember seeing that question  when I installed the demo, I probably just blindly clicked Yes or Next to everything without thinking.  But I don't think it came up when I installed 103 yesterday - maybe because it wasn't an initial installation.  I'll try when I get home tonight - might I need to uninstall first to make sure I get that question about the application data location?

MelW

Mike -

When you can, please address the issue I raised elsewhere as it is keeping me from using QU.  How can I get QU to use the application data location that I have been using for Studio?  When I installed QU, it started using C:\Documents and Settings, which is where my data used to be until I  moved it over a year ago to my D drive, so QU doesn't see any of my albums or sessions from the past year or more.  Can I just tell QU to migrate to that location?  I don't want it to overwrite the stuff that Studio has put there in the past year.

Thanks

MelW

In Studio, I have moved all of my application data to a spot on the D drive.  QU is looking in the old location on the C drive in documents and settings.  Is there a simple way to tell QU the correct location?  To add on a bit more - I am afraid  that if I tell QU to migrate to the new location - the one I have been using for Studio for the past year or so - that it will overwrite everything that's there.  I was hoping maybe a simple change to an ini file somewhere could do the trick - but that doesn't look like it's true.

Well of course - that's what I know I will really be buying - so even if QU and Studio had the exact same functionality right now, I would still buy QU.  I look back at what I first bought when I purchased Qimage 7 or 8 years ago, and all the functionality that Mike has added since - for free.  Can't wait to see what's coming here.

Thanks Fred - as usual, you are pretty much on point, and in fact additional storage is one  of the items on my agenda.  But one other question - other than the speed with the cached raw, do I have additional functionality with QU that I dont' have with Studio? I(I'm purchasing QU anyway - but just want to fully understand this)

I know that I have seen both of these addressed, but now can't find them.  When I launched QU the first time, it asked me a question about rebuilding thumbs - was this all thumbs or just the raw thumbs? How much additional space will be needed? Secondly, where can I find a concise summary of what QU does with raw files that Studio does not do, and what this means in terms of time and storage space.  Thanks much.

I will spend more this year on light magenta cartridges for my Epson 2200 than what I will spend to buy Qimage Ultimate. I appreciate the respectful way in whcih Marc has tried to make a business case for what he is saying (rather than a rant), but guess I will repeat what I have said in other forums about Qimage. 

Functionally, Qimage is one of three equal pillars in my serious photographic avocation.  Those pillars are: 1 - Camera, lenses, flash, lighting - total investment about $4500, 2 - Computer, printer(s), peripherals - total investment about $3500, 3 - Qimage - Total Investment - less than $200 - even after I buy Ultimate.  Enough said about that.  And my annual expenses for all of the above - for paper and ink - the maintenace fee for Qimage Ultimate wont even be noticed.  I guess I think that this profile may be typical of many Qimage users, so don't understand the complaining.

(Full disclosure - I don't know MIke but have spent my life as a software develoment professional - albeit in a totally different domain than this - and certainly understand the realities of what Mike is facing.)

Mel W. Columbia, Md.

Unbelievable.  I have actually been wondering how Mike and Qimage have survived financially this long. So for me this is good news. If spending $90 plus a nominal annual fee assures me continued attention to improving and supporting Qimage, it's still a bargain.  And Mike hasn't abandoned anybody. If you have one of the other Qimages, you can still keep it forever and never pay him another cent. I will dork around with the demo for a few days and then buy Qimage ultimate.  And where else can you get the kind of support with individual attention to questions, fixes, and feature requests.  - Mel W.  Columbia Md.

Received!  My thanks for this and for all of the answers over the years from so many people.

Fred -

Me too.  Please??

Send to my alternate address mwahlberg@verizon.net

Thanks

Mel

I don't think I would call it upsizing, but I know that a number of people look at my portraits - and remark that they look lifelike - as if they could touch the person.  Since I am certainly not that talented as a photographer, I credit Qimage, its interpolations, and smart-sharpening.  I really don't think there's a better bargain.  I have said this before in another forum,  there are 3 equal partners in making my pictures, 1) my photographic equipment, 2)my computer and printing equipment, and 3)Qimage.

Thhe first of these equal partners is about $3000 investment, the second a bit more than half that, and you all know how much the third costs.

Thank you Fred, Terry, Ray, and Mike for the advice and hints from my two earlier problem posts.  It took me a while to go back a few weeks and reconstruct the sequence of stupidity that caused this problem. But as near as I can figure out I did some combination of the folllowing things.  First, I imported a very large number of new photos (about 400) and put them into a single folder - which I don't normally do.  Then I followed my normal workflow and created a basic filter (autoexposure and minimum sharpening) just to let me preview all of the photos. So - I said "apply filter to all photos in the queue" - and right after I said ok - I SHUT DOWN QIMAGE to go work on something else for a while.  Obviously, I shut Qimage before it had updated all of the thumbs and it was my next Qimage sessin where I had the first hint of problems - with thumbs refusing to show and Qimage hanging.  Then to make matters worse, I used explorer to move some image (and the corresponding flt files) to other folders. If that wasn't bad enough, I then opened Qimage to one of these folders to preview some photos, and while still open, I edited in PSE (something else I seldom do).  Along the way, I did a few other things that didn't help either - not worth going into it all.  Anyway, everything is now stable again; I deleted and replaced some folders, rebuilt thumbs all over the place