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v2016.146   Mar 31, 2016

Priority: Med

v2016.146 replaces the old blemish tool with an incredible new vanish tool plus some general fixes.

See the video: http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/videolinks/vanish.htm

Mike

Fantastic feature update.

Will save me time firing up PSElements just to get rid of telephone and electric wires etc.

Jeff 

Wow!
This is a wonderful addition to Qimage ultimate.
It deserves a little show and tell to help get over the newness hump.

I attached a couple of screen snaps to illustrate:
#053 shows the "Qimage facial cream for acne (Now much easier to apply)
#066 shows a man's bald head behind the lady's hat which is a distraction. Photo courtesy of Terry)
#065 Poof! The bald head is gone.

The attached video link will show "live" how really easy it is to use.

Remember to click on Full screen to get HD.


https://goo.gl/UX4HHh

(Imagine if Bruce Jenner had had Qimage Ultimate 146. Life would have been simpler for him.)

Enjoy!  Thank you Mike!!
Fred

I am practicing to be a "hitman"
I got rid of 9 people, a cooler box, and a pail.
Fred

Now there is a disembodied shadow  :o
Terry

I left that clue for Jeff to find. Easy to remove the shadow.... just hoped he would see it.
Fred

Just logged on.  Disembodied shadow - what the hell is that.

I probably would not have seen it.



jeff

Qimage removed the scary shadow for you.
Now have a brandy and calm yourself.
Fred

Finally! I can remove items that I didn't see thru the viewfinder.

Chuck,
I was playing around with the new Vanish, and I believe that it is perfect for glints and reflections off of eye glasses and windshields, etc.
I only had one image with a really tough refection.
This was my first try.

Fred

Now that's what I need!

Hi,

I don't know if it's .146 related but I have a serious bug when I use Remove White Space From Bottom Of Page on large prints on roll paper.Image doesn't keep the size and shrinks at some random size.
Please see some screenshots:

http://www.chromatone.ro/q1.jpg
http://www.chromatone.ro/q2.jpg

Best,
Silviu

It has been a while, but my memory says that is normal.

This notice pops up when you click on the option.
See screen snap.

Fred

It has been a while, but my memory says that is normal.

This notice pops up when you click on the option.
See screen snap.

Fred
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How can that be normal? He clearly states the image size shrinks, not the page size as would be expected. I saw that happen a few times but is quite random on my system, 90% of the times it doesn't happen but sometimes it does. When it happens I usually quit the program and when I get back it usually works fine.

Look at the top of his preview panel in his shots.
The page size says 78.34 inches in one and 39.0 in the other.
What is odd, and I don't think we have all the facts is that one screen shot is showing 600 x 600 PPI for input resolution and the other shot shows 300 x 300.

The print size will shrink if the first print size was something like Fit to Page, or one dimension at was at max size.
Try it. Simple try without even using roll paper.
Set 8.5 x 11 paper with print size as Fit to paper.
Then simply change paper size in driver to 8 x 10 paper.
The print shrinks too.

The image never shrinks unless you change resolution of the image.
Fred

Thanks for the report!  I've fixed this in 147 (releasing later today) but I have to say, Canon deserves a good slap on the knuckles for this one!  I had to download and install the ipf8300 driver to see what is going on but apparently when you remove white space from the page, the driver is switching automatically from 300x300 PPI to 600x600 PPI!  There's no way that a simple change of paper length should cause other driver settings to change!  Maybe it's a bug in the 8300 driver or maybe they decided to automatically switch the driver resolution (higher) for smaller size pages, but nevertheless, the driver shouldn't be changing resolution just for sending a change in paper length to the driver.  Nevertheless, 147 will check for that and that should fix it in 147.

Regards,
Mike

Thank you, Mike!
The thing is that it didn't happen in older versions say from some months ago...

That's because back then, your setup didn't call for the driver to switch from 300 to 600 PPI: it stayed at 300 PPI after using the "Remove white space" option.  I noticed that in some situations, the driver will stay at 300 PPI after changing the paper lenth.  For example, if you didn't take off quite as much white space.  Or you had a different paper selected at the time.  It's not consistent when the driver does it's automatic switch-over so the problem won't occur if it stays at 300 PPI when you use the "Remove white space" option.

Regards,
Mike