Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

I read Mike's piece on making gallery wraps. Tried it & it worked fine - started with paper on a CD case as he suggested and then graduated to the real thing.

Next I'd like to take a 3:2 image and print it across 4 pieces of 13x19 canvas in gallery wrap fashion. The final display would be panels hung in a 2x2 grid with a small space (about 2") separating each panel. Each gallery wrap panel would be 15x10 with a 1.25" thick frame, so I'll be printing four 17.5 x 12.5 images (allowing for the wrap).

I know how to do this if I take just the image into an editor, break it into four pieces, and then do what I did before in QImage - four separate times. My question - is there some clever way to have QI do this for me by giving it just the original image? Just thought I'd ask since I may doing more of these in various sizes and configurations and having a template of sorts might save me from future dumb mistakes.

I know that Fred & Terry like challenges.  ;)

Hi Ed,
Yes, you can do it.
First, QU has a Poster function that enables you to divide an image between any number of sheets, no need to use and editor for non wrapped images.
However, to make each quadrant with it's own wrap, you don't really need 4 images with QU. It can be done in Qimage with 4 different image crops of one image made in the editor.
You could copy the image to get 4 copies, each with the appropriate crop but that is not necessary if you a prepared to print each quadrant individually.
A very accurate crop is possible in the editor because you are given a read-out of the pixel size as you do it.
Make the 1st quadrant crop apply the wrap border & print.
Then MOVE the crop to the next quadrant and print again -- and so on for all 4 quadrants.
I've done this in the past to make 4 panels but without a wrap.
You just need to work out the dimensions of the image print and wrap border to get it right.
easy peasy  ;)

Terry

Thanks, Terry.

I found the Learn by Example piece on printing a Multi-page Poster and will study that - and then move on to addressing how to translate that to the wrap.

I haven't decided on the wrap style yet; the current image is more or less an abstract so there are lots of possibilities.

(http://www.pbase.com/image/132547601.jpg)

Ed,
Don't forget I said that the wrap feature would not work on the individual sections of a poster, only on the whole image.
Terry