Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

I am trying to print a image on a paper that is 8x10 with the image having a very thin lined .03 inch black border next to the image and a 1 inch white border around the thin line black border as well as the  image itself.  I end up getting the thin black line around my image correct, but I run into trouble with the white border around it.  For some unknown reason in the Full Page editor under print location, it always has my images located with a white border of .29 inches at the top and .34 inch at the bottom.  Now when I tell it to make my 1 inch border all around the image, it makes the white border on the right and left side of of my image the 1 inch one inch border that I wish to have, but the top is 1.29 inches and the bottom is 1.34 inches.  I know that I have something set wrong, but I just cannot figure it out.  I can correctly set it up in Lightroom 4 to print the way that I wish, and with my monitor calibrated, I am liking the images that I am getting from Lightroom 4.  I would like to be able to set it up in Qimage to the 1 inch border all around, since Qimage prints my images much closer to what I want them to look like other than the border.  Any ideas as to what I have set up incorrectly in Qimage?

I found what I think is the answer to my problem, but I hope that it is the right answer since it has seem to corrected my problem.  I did a larger scan through Qimage search and found a similar problem of someone who did not have their auto crop turned on.  I turned on my auto crop and it corrected the problem instantly.  I hope that is the right answer to my problem, if not, help....

You got it!
All that you were seeing (and the border color was white) was the border plus the remainder of the unused paper added together,

Good job!
Fred

Hi  Mr photo Bob
Following on from Fred's reply, you may find it helpful to watch the Learning Video that covers in detail Aspect Ratios and Cropping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pgHp45B1QXo&vq=hd720 (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pgHp45B1QXo&vq=hd720)
In fact there are leaning videos on most aspects of Qimage Ultimate use, just click Help and Video Learning Centre.
It's worth setting aside the time to work through them and if there's something not clear to you, we are always glad to help on the forum.
Terry

I have been a member on here since 2010, and have owned Qimage for quite some time longer than that.  I have yet to figure out how to work the Automatic Copyright/Signature.  I wish that there was an easier way to place your signature upon your images when printing.  I sometime print in Lightroom 4 because I need to place either a signature or a water mark on my images and it is much easier to do that in there. I just have not figured out how to do that with Qimage.  Any help on that?   ???

Hi Mr Bob,
I created some extra help information some time ago with sample signature images.
You can access these and additional instructions here:
http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/qu_signatures (http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/qu_signatures)
You have permission to download the samples: open each thumbnails to "original" size (set below each image), right click and save image to your PC, folder
C:\ProgramData\ddisoftware\Qimage\Signatures
The on-line help on the matter is here http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/help/function.htm#copyright (http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/help/function.htm#copyright)
Terry