Hi,
I should say click the cropping TAB on the right.  
No, that example is not relevant, the title is "Using the poster feature to overcome your print driver's maximum page length limitation" and that relates to very long prints on roll feed paper.
Two ways:
1. Make multiple copies of your image each with the different amounts of USM/TTS set in the image Editor. Place them all on the page at a suitable small size and then on each one use the cropping zoom in the Page Editor to zoom in to get the print ppi that your full size print gives. The tool gives a read-out of the ppi as you zoom in. Set the crop position on each and print the page.
2. Use the Test Strip feature with just one image. This will mean passing the paper through the printer for each USM/TTS setting.
Use what is described in Help, quoted for convenience:
Starting from your full size print on the page, open the Page Editor and click the Test Strip icon once.
1st attachment - before Test Strip clicked.
Back to the main screen, set the page as Free hand and set a suitable small size for the print and position (drag) in one corner of the page.
In the Page editor, set the zoom position in the crop tab.
See 2nd attached -
Print.
Re-set USM/TTS for second sample, move the image across the page to clear the 1st position (use page editor for accurate positioning)
See 3rd attached and print again on the same page.
And so on .... zzzz  
I hope you don't want to do this very often but the quickest is method 1 with multiple images.
Terry

PS. Just realised you want to use an on-line printing service - in that case, method 1 must be used and Print to File. See Example 25a

Hi again Terry

Now I gave the thing a first try.
The cropping in Qi is not to my liking, so I tried to modify the procedure a little: I prepared a couple of cropped images in my editor and loaded these. However, the Sharpen in the Job Properties pane (0..20) can only be applied to the page, not the image.
There is also sharpening available in the Image Editor: USM (Radius and amount in %) and a scale from -9 to +9. How do these latter 2 relate to each other? And to the sharpening in Job Properties?
A third place where sharpening can be adjusted is Edit/Prefs/Printing Options; USM can be adjusted in about 4 steps, and in 2 ways: Smart or Normal.
How do all these adjustments relate to each other??

BTW what is TTS?

Kind regards  - Hening

Hi Terry

thank you very much for your extensive answer. There is something to study.
I start right away.
I had looked under Qimage (List of major) Functions for an entry "sharpening", but there is none.
Clicking the Search button in Help and entering "sharpening" returns 4 results ranked 1 to 4:
Qimage Functions
Learn by Example
Overview
Trouble Shooting

Double-clicking these entries, or clicking the Display button, returns the respective start pages, but nothing about sharpening.
First using ctrl-f and entering "sharpening" returns a match, but only one, the occurrence in "smart sharpening" in the last paragraph of Example 25a. The Previous and Next buttons are dimmed and don't work. ("Highlight all matches" is checked).

So your quote is my first and only source.

I believe to understand from it that IMAGE sharpening (in the Image Editor) is what also is called CAPTURE sharpening, as opposite to output/print sharpening.

> Sharpening in the Editor is for IMAGE sharpening, get that to look right according to your taste.

That sounds like the image in the Image Editor should show the changes in real time? My image does not respond at all.

Will Qimage "understand" image sharpening done in a different editor, say Focus Fixer or Photo Kit Sharpener?  I mean will Qi translate THAT sharpening to Smart Print Sharpening?

So much from my first lesson on sharpening…

Ceterum censeo that this software needs a systematic documentation, and a Help that works.

Kind regards - Hening.

I missed this question
If the "different" editor has some sort of supplementary file to hold the edit settings like sharpening, then Qimage will not recognise those settings.
Qimage works like this so edits are non-destructive and saved in a Filter file alongside the image.
If the "different" editor changes the original image as you make edits or when you close the image, then Qimage will "see" that change. Otherwise you must save the image such that the edits are included.
The above is related to IMAGE sharpening. Smart PRINT sharpening is not directly affected by image sharpening and occurs as the data is sent to the printer, the amount being determined by your settings in Qimage printing options - as stated in reply #4 above.
Terry

This is another topic on Sharpening.

Let's keep this reply separate from the cropping.

The Sharpening that has the scale  of -9 to +9 is never or rarely used.
Why? Not because it doesn't work, but because it is somewhat obsolete in terms of sharpening all as opposed to selecting parts to sharpen.
I use it as a quick sharpen on a scan of some magazine article.

The Smart Sharpen that uses the 0-20 scale is a wonderful tool that fills the gap between what we see (satisfying sharp) on our screen, ready to print, and what we get on the paper.
Different size prints, from large to small will require a different amount of Smart Sharpen to make the print appear as sharp as the screen image.
It removes the idea that you have to over-sharpen the image in order to make the print sharp.

Different types of paper print sharper than other types. (Glossy vs matte for example)
So Smart Sharpen has a default of 5, usually pretty good for most, but allows you to select more or less depending on your requirements, and which you can save as a print setup for the particular paper.
Smart Sharpen is called Smart because it adjusts the amount of print sharpening while checking the print size you chose and the resulting ppi, (pixels per inch)
See the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ulsHxq-K-l4&vq=hd720

Set it for 5 and leave it there until we get everything else sharpening related sorted out.

TTS (Tone Targeted Sharpening) is so powerful that you need to watch the videos, and then practice using it.
It allows you to do selective sharpening based on tone or color.
For a start, think this way, you have an image with a lot of shadow area that contains noise in the shadows. The subject could use some sharpening but YUK, it also brings out the noise in the shadow area.
You can use TTS not only to refuse to sharpen the noisy areas, but you can tell it to minus sharpen the noise, thereby reducing the noise without softening the image.

You can select by color, widening or narrowing the width of the shades of the selected color for sharpening, to the point where I can sharpen eyes without the wrinkles in the face, or sharpen cheeks and not the chin....or
I can sharpen the whole image.... very complex, but worth the effort to get the hang of it.

If you have a certain item that is confusing, or not doing what you wish, let me know, and I can make a video and sent it to you.
Where do you live so I can know your time zone.?

Fred

You'll love cropping in Qimage once you get used to it, especially when you're cropping to match a standard size like 5x7 or 8x10.  Impossible to make a mistake unless you turn off Crop Lock.  But it's equally easy to turn off Crop Lock and make a custom freehand crop, too.

Multiple ways to do things in Qimage, no doubt.  Often, when I'm in a hurry for a quick print, I will "crop" by zooming in the Full Page Editor, especially when I'm just trying to find out if I can crop an image to include elements A, B, & C, but leaving out elements D & E.  For me, that's the easiest way to do it.  I just zoom in & out and drag the image around to see if my "test crop" is going to work.

And sometimes I'll zoom to the max in FPE and make a test print when I just want to give someone a quick example of what QU's interpolation algorithms can do.  You could call it a "rough cut" test strip, I suppose.  Most people are impressed when they see the printed result.

I still can't believe what users of some high-end programs have to go through just to crop an image in a specific aspect ratio.  Glad I'm a Qimage user.