Here is my dirty little secret. When you move the cursor around in the image editor, you get a nice readout in the lower right, of the RGB value. Over the 15 or so years that I have been using Qimage, I have developed a sense of what I expect those values to be for certain subjects – especially flesh tones – based on analyzing the values from earlier prints that I found to be really satisfactory. For example, for average Caucasian flesh tone, for portraits – I have found that 240, 200, 180 is a wonderful value for the center of the forehead. (this may be a carryover from something similar I used to do in the darkroom).
In accordance with keeping busy in a positive way during the virus policies, and at the same time showing some stuff you can do in QU that is not obvious or documented; just fun stuff. Stuff like what Mel explained above.
Set the scene!! Quite oftenI make DVDs for the neighbors. Recently, I was handed a bunch of Dolly Parton Mp3s and a few MP4s, and asked to make a disk. That's easy. The hard part is a round label to paste on to the DVD. Of course, you will need a pack of DVD lable paper.
So See screen snap 039. That is what I made.
Step 1, add a 4.75 x 4.75 template to the queue. (In custom size, enter 4.74 x 4.75) then click on the template thumbnail.
Step 2 Go into Page Editor and add Floating text, sizing and placing it where you wish. See screen snap 040
Step 3 Select a thumbnail that you wish for the mood of the DVD and click the + sign. That image now resides in the queue under the text.
Step 4 Open the Image editor and add a cutout that says CD or DVD. You will get an oval shape depending on the shape of the image.
Close and save filter.
Step 5 Open the page editor. see screen snap 041. It is an area at the upper right corner where you can slide the image to where the important part is in the box. Now look at the left side. There is your round print. You now can adjust the position of the text, or size of the text, and make the important parts of your creation fit inside the circle.
It sounds like a lot, but really, fun, creative and easy after you do one.
(and then you can dare anyone to say, "Dolly Partons biggest hits" 3 times fast and not laugh.)
Have fun,
Fred