How do I save a file as a TIFF

Mike,

I love the Auto option when soft proofing.   I print images for others (non-commercial) and they say I do better than the commercial printers do -- and I explain it is because of Qimage.
I run every image I print through QU soft proof, note the rendering intent chosen by Qimage, and then go to the Mac version and plug that RI in.    Usually works beautifully.   

But I've had two images in two months where Auto chose Relative Colorimetric, and it should have been Perceptual.   

Do you know of cases where the Auto algorithm makes assumptions that might not be right?
The images have deeply saturated dark colors; but the Gamut warning does not show them as being out of gamut.
I am printing to a profiled paper (Canon Polypropylene Matte) and normally it works superbly. 

I can upload the images if you'd like.   I can even take pictures of the difference between RC and Perceptual when printed.   The difference is subtle, but these are very subtle images sometimes.

I am somewhat of a Canon fanboy (PRO-2000, G620, iP100) but I used to run some Epson machinery when I worked in a retail drylab (SC-P6000, SL-D3000, SL-D700) and was quite fond of those. I am picking up an 8550 secondhand (with a good nozzle check in hand of course) and appreciate the profiles for this Canon paper quite immensely. If I can get away with it, I would like to keep using Canon papers as in my experience, they're quite nice and a good value. Cheaper than Epson papers from what I've seen. Especially since I have several Canon machines as well.

I have a not-insignificant pile of Canon paper and was wondering if it would be possible to "donate" some to get more profiles made for the 8500 series. Particularly the Canon Glossy, Plus Glossy II, and Matte Photo papers are not listed and I have a decent stock of LTR sheets for all of them.

I would be happy to spend the supplies to make some swatches, and cover shipping them to be made into profiles for this repo. I don't have the resources to make the profiles myself, but I can put ink on paper.

Please let me know if that's of any interest.

BRW

Thank you for your advice, Mike!

You can do it but you are going to have to control the order.  What I would do is create two jobs like this:

Job8163
Job2745

Set both jobs up landscape and have both jobs contain 2 pages where the first job (Job8163) has templates for photos 8 and 1 on the first page and 6 and 3 on the second page.  Make sure you drag and drop photo 8 and photo 1 on the first page and photo 6 and 3 on the second page.  Or just click on the + button on the thumbnails for photo 8, photo 1, photo 6, and photo 3 and they will go in that order.  Print and flip the pages over, feed them back into the printer on the opposite sides, and repeat for Job2745 placing photos 2 and 7 on the first page and photos 4 and 5 on the second page.

The job names should help you remember which photos go in and in which order.  You'd have to get used to how to flip the sheets making sure to get the order correct but once you get the hang of it, it should be pretty simple.

Regards,
Mike

Does Qimage have a functionality to arrange images on pages in a way that after double-sided printing one could make a brochure or a book?

For example, for a book of 8 pages it is needed 2 sheets of paper:
Page 1, 1 side: image 8 in the left column and image 1 in the right column;
Page 1, 2 side: image 2 in the left column and image 7 in the right column;
Page 2, 1 side: image 6 in the left column and image 3 in the right column;
Page 2, 2 side: image 4 in the left column and image 5 in the right column.

I've attached an image to show what I mean.

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your answer.

I hoped for a trick of some but know at least  I know how to do it!.

Kind regards,

Bert

PS Qimage is not the easiest of software to use but I start to appreciate it more and more of what it does do and thats quite a bit :-).

You changed the exposure using the image editor which changes the image.  No matter how many prints you make of that image, it is still multiple copies/prints of that same image.

To do four different exposures of an image, you'll need 4 images so you'd have to make 3 copies and then edit the 4 images separately.

Regards,
Mike

What I'm trying to do is to print the same picture with several different exposures on one sheet of paper and do the adjustments of the exposures within Qimage.
When I have an A4 paper and divide it into four then I add the same picture four times and then I double-click on the second picture and apply an adjusted exposure. That works but that new exposure is then applied to all four pictures!
Is there a way to have unique exposures for the same image within Qimage or do have to make the changes in PS?

Right click in the print size list for options.

Regards,
Mike