I am strongly considering buying Q.U., but first have a question.   I use Adobe Lightroom 3 for my workflow and editing.
Are there some suggested tips or details of how Qimage could fit into this workflow? 
Is there also a short one or two paragraph example on using qimage to print panorama photos, such as roll paper?

Thanks,

Neal

Neal

There are two ways of integrating QImage with Lightroom. For either, you have to set QImage as the external Editor in LR in Edit>Preferences>External Editing.
Once you have done that, if you right-click and choose Edit With>QImage.exe LR will export a Tif to a temporary folder and then load it into QImage, and delete it afterwards.
For the second method, you export as usual but set the 'Post Processing' option in the Export dialog box to After Export>Open in QImage.exe (The option is right at the bottom, easy to miss). It's beat not to use the 'Resize to Fit', leave all the interpolation to QI.
Both methods will work with multiple images, but I prefer the second as it works with QI's wonderful 'Job Saving'.

I think QI is possibly the best option for printing panoramas, the method is described in Example 6a of 'Help by Example' in the help file. Basically, if you want to print ,say, a 20" x 100" print, you set the roll paper size to a manageable length, say 20" and load the print.QI will split the print into 20" chunks and the printer will stitch them together seamlessly. This avoids the main problem of printing panos, which is the huge size of the print spool file clogging up the computer. The method works with most Epson  and Canon roll paper printers, but I believe there have been problems with some HP models.

HTH

Brian