Hi Terry, great questions/points.  Many times I like to have a few compositions for the same photo.  I do mainly urban architecture and often like both a square crop and a 4:3 crop for the same picture.  Googling Adobe forums, I can see that I'm not alone - it is a fairly common question (saving multiple crops in one photo).  In the past, I've saved an image for each crop I want, but when I want to go back and retouch something, I have to revisit each crop.  Crop filters give a huge advantage - I only have to retouch one photo, and automatically it gets deployed to my different compositions. 

After a day of fooling around with crop filters, I might have some different workflow suggestions/enhancements for qimage, but in general, I'm feeling confident that it works well enough. 

Cheers!

Hi Fred,

Excellent video - and I tried out your suggestion.  I see how the copy creates a new jpg with a new associated filter.  In my case, I want to have only 1 copy of the jpg, but multiple crops filters.  That helps me in 2 ways:

     1. If I want to subsequently edit the base image in photoshop, it automatically applies to all crops of that image.

     2. Since I'm only saving crop filters, I save a lot of space compared to saving multiple jpgs.

QImage lets me do it, though it is a tad bit of pain because filters open/save dialog boxes default to the the QImages\filter folder -- it would be better to have it default to the same folder that the Image is in.

What makes me a *little* bit nervous is that when I open an filter from with in the image editor (File -> Open Filter Parameters From File ), it doesn't take effect completely until I click on the image itself.  I think it is just an events/sequencing bug in the editor, but what prompted my post was my thinking, well, maybe I'm not supposed to be doing things this way.

Hope that makes sense.  Thanks.

(Apologies in advance as I suspect this is a repeat question, but I'm not finding it in search...)

I want to save various crops of the same image, and it has occurred to me that applying the crops in qimage and saving the filters is an efficient way to do it.  This would mean multiple filters per picture.  I have experimented, and it seems to work fine - I open up the filter I want to apply when editing the picture and it seems to apply just fine. 

Are there any gotchas I should be aware of with this approach?  I don't want to go to far down the road and realize that I was using filters in a wrong way.

Thanks!

I am running QImage Studio v2009.267 on Windows 7 rc 1 with a Canon s9000.  When printing 13 * 19 inch prints, my computer turns off (like someone just pulled the plug).  I'm pretty sure the problem is with the driver - Canon has not release a Windows 7 specific driver yet, so I'm using their Vista driver which seems a bit old by now.

I've tried changing the print spooler format to RAW, running QImage in Vista & XP compatibility modes.

Are there any logging features in QImage which could help me identify any error conditions during the print routine?  I understand that Windows 7 is not officially supported, so I'm just trying to see what I might be able to discover myself. 

Thanks,
Garrett