Thanks all, but I just found it.  Yeah!

dave

I have been trying for the past hour plus to find where in the menu I get the dialog for making a canvas wrap. I read in the help that I should "Drop down 'Size' in the 'Print Properties' auto popup panel on the main window and select 'Custom'" but for the life of me I can't seem to find that dialog. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm simply missing something obvious but whatever it is, I'm stumped.

dave   

Thanks Terry, I was going nuts trying to find a way to save a test image before I remembered that there had been a comment about how it is done.  Much appreciated. I don't think that has been covered in any of the videos or I simply missed it somehow.

dave

That's very close to what we experienced in the winter in P-Cola; however, the summers were VERY hot and VERY humid with lots of nasty bugs, especially love bugs, fire ants, and mole crickets.  The winters were nice, but more of what I considered summers should be!

Here the winters are as bad as the summers there, and the humidity is in the form of rain, rain, and more rain. Equally ugly, but the summers, when they arrive, are really nice plus there is just so much to shoot that it is truly a photographer's paradise, and what you can't find close by is just a drive down I-5 or along the coast.

dave

Hi Fred -

Yup, they are everywhere, and I've never had poorer service. Talking to Centurylink is like talking to a wall. Only the wall is more responsive!

I don't think you intruded in any way!!  In fact, I was thinking how good it would be if we were co-located and I'm delighted you made the inquiry. 

Now I'm rather certain you are on the right coast and likely somewhere in FL. I had two tours in P-Cola and I can't say I enjoyed the weather, or the bugs!

dave

Hi Fred -


No, the images aren't all that familiar, but I did say the Kitsap area, more specifically the North Kitsap Peninsula in WA state. Here is the address, you can Google map it.  34299 Pilot Point Road NE, Eglon, WA 98346. Google will want the city provided as Kingston, but they are separate communities. Google should point to a 10A parcel situated between Pilot Point Road and Bodine Road. The blue area to the right is Puget Sound. On the other side of the blue about 15 miles to the south sits Seattle......I just read your email so I guess you are quite familiar with the area.

dave

Hi Fred -

An unrelated question first; how does one use the quote function? I don't seem to get what I want, i.e., just a blue section with the quote.

O.K. print stuff.  I basically don't print anything for myself. In fact, I have just one print of my work in the entire house. I do have prints made at COSTCO in the 4x6 size for use in making greeting cards. Folks can pick the images they want and I have them printed, "tack" them onto the front of high quality blank cards that let the sender write what they want on the inside with the recipient being able to safely remove the photo for any use they want. The card goes with a matching envelope and both are enclosed in a translucent envelope.

I have four printers: HP LJ4, Panasonic Workio CL500 (color laser), Epson Stylus Photo 1270, and an HP Designjet 130 nr which I just recently purchased for $600 from the camera store where I worked for several years. The last two can be used for photo printing I know, but for the most part the cost of printing on the Epson has far exceeded the cost & convenience of having COSTCO do it. If the consumables weren't so expensive, I might consider giving them both a go. Would you consider sharing your ink source offline if this isn't the place to do it. (dcjohan@centurylink.net)

The purchase of the Designjet was with the idea that I might do some large prints, but at the moment cost is one of the two main reasons I'm not doing my own stuff. QU and cheaper ink/paper might just change my mind.

The other reason for not doing my own printing is the time involved. For the past 8 years I've been sending out a daily photo with a story that accompanies it to a large mailing list called The Daily Image, and 2 years ago I added a Smugmug site (that's what you looked at). Shooting the raw material and then editing the final product for these daily mailings takes up a fair amount of time. Learning to use the software to do it all also adds to the time load and mastering QU will just add to it. On top of that, I am strongly looking at moving away from the Adobe products due to Adobe corporate attitudes, which means that I now need to invest even more time learning to better incorporate the other graphics editing programs I have. Taking the time to master all the nuances of printing will be just one more demand on my time which is getting pretty scarce right about now. I'm sure I will get to that point later in the year, but for the immediate I have to concentrate my time in areas with the biggest payoff.

So for now I will continue to use COSTCO, work to master QU, and hope that my investment in QU will pay off in a much shorter learning curve when I do tackle home printing.

dave

Afternoon Fred -

Yes, your email came through just fine; thanks.

Just sent off my first batch of (test) prints to COSTCO to see if I understand how to do all this stuff correctly. 
The COSTCO page said that I should resend at a different resolution because the prints might be muddy but I sent full sized files (2-4 MB) for 4x6 prints a 300 DPI. That doesn't seem like a too small file in my experience with sending them files not created with Qimage.  Any thoughts on this?

It all seems rather easy once you understand what you need to do, but then, I guess that's true of most things. I know there is a quick way to empty the print queue but I can't locate it at the moment. Once I do it will then seem obvious. For now I believe I need to watch the videos some more while I have Qimage open, follow along with my own files, and just give it time to become as familiar for me as PS ver x.

Thanks for your help!!

dave

Hi Fred -

Let me tell you I am VERY impressed with the response on this forum; reminds me of my DOS days in the early 80s. I'm assuming from what you wrote I click the blue dot next to Prt ICC: which jumps me into the Color Management dialog box and from there click the ... box, navigate to the printer profile and load it there. Yes?

I'm sold, and even more than that, I've shown it to two colleagues. One purchased it today and the other is in the process of so doing.

Thanks for the great support!!!!!  I know I'm going to love what this can do for my work.

dave
http://sonofjohan.smugmug.com/

Gentlemen -

Thank you very much for your quick reply's to my first inquiry. Since you've invited me to ask more, here goes. I just finished watching the video about printing for a print service. The service that is handy for me where I live in the Northern part of the Kitsap Peninsula is COSTCO. They have professional grade Noritsu printers like the kind we used in a camera store where I used to work. All of them have custom ICC profiles available. Can I use the appropriate printer ICC profile from Dry Creek in conjunction with QU to optimize the prints I would get from that print service? If so I'm already sold!

TIA,

dave

I'm brand new to this forum and the program as of today. I've just begun my 14 day evaluation and have one major concern relative to purchasing. I would like to use Qimage Ultimate (QU) in conjunction with PS6 & LR4. Do I need to do the majority of my editing in PS6/LR4 first and then bring the image into QU for final work and printing, or can I start in QU, export to PS6/LR4, and then return to QU. I note the <CTRL> e option, but when I tried to go this route it seemed to me that I lost most of the QU edits as soon as I got into the graphics editor.

I would greatly appreciate any and all advice as to how to best implement the two programs QU & PS6 or QU & LR4 together as part of my purchase determination.

TIA

dave