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Anthony
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« on: September 08, 2010, 04:51:15 PM »

Using a Ricoh CX3, we take pictures of children in a large hall under fluorescent light (without flash). We have taken advice from a professional photographer who says that the beige/green tint we get in the photos is the result of the ambient light. He has suggested examining whether a batch editing process might improve these photos somehow. Can Qimage Ultimate be configured to batch edit photos (rather than doing them one at a time) and is there an auto setting that will give us an idea as to what can be achieved? If not, what (of the many) settings should we think about using?

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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2010, 05:41:09 PM »


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Can Qimage Ultimate be configured to batch edit photos (rather than doing them one at a time) and is there an auto setting that will give us an idea as to what can be achieved? If not, what (of the many) settings should we think about using?
Anthony,
If the images are shot in raw mode, all you need to do is set the White balance (and any exposure adjustments, if needed), to the first image of the selected thumbs in REFINE MULTIPLE RAWS, and tick APPLY to all.

If the images are JPG or TIF, you add the images to the queue, go into the Image Editor, and click the White Balance eye dropper.
Then find a nice item that you know is neutral gray or white, and click the dropper on that.
Qimage Ultimate will set the White Balance for you. You can tweak if you like....
Then say, DONE!
A box will open asking you to save the filter and apply it to the image.... OR, there's an alternate dot that says APPLY THIS FILTER TO ALL THE IMAGES IN THE QUEUE!
Click that baby, and say OK.
You are home free.

Fred

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Anthony
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« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2010, 06:27:52 PM »

Cool! Thank you Fred
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Ken
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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2010, 07:54:33 PM »

Fred or Anyone

Can you presently apply the Tone Sharpening from one photo to many? May be a dumb question; however, I could not find that anywhere and it does not appear as an option in batch processing..unless I missed it. I still use LR for managing, metadata, & some other things I apply on import, but all of my keepers now get sharpened and sometimes other adjustments in QIU before printing in QIU of course..
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« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2010, 08:23:26 PM »

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Can you presently apply the Tone Sharpening from one photo to many? May be a dumb question; however, I could not find that anywhere and it does not appear as an option in batch processing..unless I missed it. I still use LR for managing, metadata, & some other things I apply on import, but all of my keepers now get sharpened and sometimes other adjustments in QIU before printing in QIU of course..

Of course.
Every tool from the Image Editor can be applied to one or all images in the queue.
Assuming you are applying the same TONE SHARPENING to all, when you click DONE after setting the controls fot the first image, a box will open telling you that it will save the filter you created,and that it is applying it to the image you just worked on.
There's a dot hole over to the top right. See the screen snap attached.
It says, APPLY FILTER TO ALL IMAGES IN THE QUEUE. Tick that dot, and the enhancements you applied in the first image, will be applied to all the images in the queue.

Hope this does it for you.
Fred

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« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2010, 08:54:12 PM »

Thank you Fred for your response.

I am applying my edit to a tiff (that came from LR). When I open the editor, make adjustments, hit apply, then done, the editor closes and I am back to the thumbnail. I know that I have seen the box you are talking about (your Image 082.jpg) but it does not appear now. Did I hit something to keep it from coming up?
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« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2010, 09:00:13 PM »

What Fred said, but... also note that to get that particular dialog, you must be using the batch editor, not the single image editor.  If you double click a thumbnail, you'll get the single image editor which is different.  To get the dialog that Fred posted, you have to first add multiple images to the queue like Fred said in his first reply and then double click on a print on the preview page.  That'll open the batch editor: looks the same as the single image editor except when you exit, you get the question about how you want to apply the filter (Fred's screen shot).  So long story short, to be able to "apply to all in the queue" you must add your images to the queue/page first and then double click from the preview page instead of doing it from a thumbnail.

Mike
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« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2010, 09:12:03 PM »

My bad...

I  am now using QIU for more editing (did not do that before) so I am learning.  And yes, Fred did say to "add the images to the queue"..

Sorry to take up your time with something I should have discovered myself. Appreciate the help.

It works as designed.. Embarrassed
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« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2010, 10:48:16 PM »

No problemo.  I think that's one of those things that doesn't really "click" until it is specifically pointed out.

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Mike
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