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Author Topic: Qimage: Documented and undocumented - A list of random jobs Qimage does easily.  (Read 42898 times)
Fred A
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« on: March 21, 2010, 01:44:55 PM »

Since many of us use our Qimage in various ways for various jobs, it might be fun while being helpful to new Qimage people as well as long time users to pass on some "stuff" that Qimage does easily.
It occurred to me when I was helping a lady in the Profile Prism section on the forum to print a target. She was having so many questions and concerns.

Qimage has in it's store of tricks, an auto setting for printing a target, whether for Profile Prism, or Cathy's Profiles, or Munki or whatever else.
Simply click FILE. RECALL; then click the button marked "J" for job.
Depending on the sort you have, the target printing selection will be the first or last.
Simply select it and click OPEN.
All the settings will be set correctly for printing your target image.

Sending photos by email.
Two ways in Qimage:
Simplest: click on the thumbnail to select the image. You see it has changed some to indicate it is "selected"/ If you want more than one to be sent in the email, simply hold down the CTRL key while you select other thumbnails.
When you have a few selected, Right Mouse button click on any thumbnail image and select SEND via EMAIL.
You will have a choice of sizes; just pick a size. Qimage will create the images to email in a few seconds, and then open your email program for you where you just put in the email address of the person or persons that will receive it.
Click SEND as you would any other email.
What is so special?
No need to resize. No need to convert from raw or from Tiff to jpg. You just select your thumbnail with no concern to what format that image might be in.
Qimage does it all.


Oh but you knew all that!
Here's one perhaps,you didn't know.
Suppose you  wanted to make 25 images for a slide show presentation and you wanted to make them into sizes that wouldn't bloat the slide show file.
You wanted let's say 1024 x 768 or close.
You simply put the 25 images into the queue, right click on the filenames in the queue, and select Create Email Web Size copies.
Uncheck SEND VIA EMAIL, Name a folder to collect the new images that will be created, and Pick your size, or type in your desired size, and click GO.

Last one for now, I promise.
Suppose you want to make a quick change to some enhancement that you made in the batch filter, even just for a look.
You don't want to wait for your 25Mb images to have to load up in the queue. You just want to see if a little touch up might improve.... lets say, even trying a nice Oval Cutout.
You select the thumbnail, right mouse click, and select Create Associative Filter/Quick Edit. (I Know you like a Quickie)
You will get an instant editing tool chest. Add a tick of Fill light, take some off, try a cutout, take it off by typing NONE into the cutout name box, add a little noise filtering to see..... change colorspace....whatever you would like to try.... and do it quickly,
Click DONE!  Bam! It's done!

I lied about LAST ONE!  Smiley
Last one...
Suppose you want to take a file to a store that will print large prints for you. The store says, bring me a TIF for a 16 x 20 print at 300 ppi.
You go to FILE, PRINT TO, and select FILE.
Tell the screen to set to 300 ppi, and the size to 20 x 16. Select sRGB or printer profile with smart sharpen included. Click OK
Click The Print Button in Qimage, select your options, you will find TIF in there too, and you made the file you need.

Now, let's hear some of the stuff you found extra helpful in Qimage; some things that others might not have found.
Have fun with Qimage!!

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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2010, 08:20:25 AM »

Very helpful list, keep them coming, as you say some we know but who knows everything? especially regarding Qimage except Mike of course.

Jeff

 
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2010, 09:09:27 AM »

Here are some more suggestions;
Fred said
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Suppose you  wanted to make 25 images for a slide show presentation
If you are going to project images on a big screen, it is best to size them to the projector resolution, typically 1024x768 pixels. The appearance on screen can be improved with a border around the image and placing the image on a black background, particularly useful for vertical shots remembering screens are always a horizontal format.
I do this using Print to File with a black page sized to give the 1024x768 resolution horizontal format, and place the image on the page, I allow a small region of black to show around the edges and then add a thin border.

Do you print "album" pages with multiple images on them? Try making a collage using Freehand placement mode. Allow images to overlap, try placing one image in the background to fill the page with the other smaller ones on top. Use the Send to back or Bring to Front in the Full page editor to get the best overlap arrangement.

Something more technical (Studio edition only I think). We sometimes see on the forum, questions about which rendering intent should be used or is one profile better than another. The answer usually is "make a test print". In Q-SE it's possible to make a page or queue of test prints with each image having a different profile and/or rendering intent. Just right click on an image in the preview and select Custom Color Management. You can do all your comparisons in one session, to save time and paper.

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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2010, 05:37:28 PM »

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Sending photos by email.
Here is another with a couple of tips which I've just remembered. This is useful of when you want to send images again from the e-mail folder, or perhaps, you want to add a few more.

Remember, when creating additional e-mail copies and the "To" folder is left blank, Q will delete existing images in the {Q}e-mail folder. However, if you browse to it from the e-mail copy dialogue and thus specify that as the "To" folder, the existing files will remain and the new ones will be added. After creating the new files, Q will then ask if you want to browse to that folder, say Yes.

After browsing to the e-mail copies folder,  click Utilities in the menu bar and choose Explore Current folder.
Here you can select the images you want to send, right click, select Send To and choose your e-mail client. It should then open with the images attached, ready for you to add a message and send.

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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2010, 08:22:28 AM »


If you are going to project images on a big screen, it is best to size them to the projector resolution, typically 1024x768 pixels. The appearance on screen can be improved with a border around the image and placing the image on a black background, particularly useful for vertical shots remembering screens are always a horizontal format.

Very useful suggestion, I have often noticed how the glare of the white screen clashed with the image being projected.

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« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2010, 05:49:10 PM »

Ok, so you wore out the features that Terry and I suggested in earlier posts.
Here's another that is probably undocumented.... (Who has time to read all the stuff)  Grin
It does say, in Help, Features, "With "lock all" checked, curves apply to all colors equally. You can uncheck "lock all" and apply different curves to individual colors by using the "Apply to" color at the bottom of the window.

So what does that mean?
It means, with a little practice you can change the color or intensity of a color without bollixing the entire image.

You do this in Curves from the Qimage Batch screen.
At the top, you replace RGB with the color you want to change.
At the bottom, you uncheck Lock all and select the color on which you want the selected color at the top to apply to. (Do not end a sentence with a preposition) OK OK!

The first two snaps 055 and 056 show the original flower color, and one where the red only was changed.
I am not saying I improved it, I didn't. I just wanted to illustrate what Qimage can do if you had a flat red and wanted to goose it a bit.

The last two snaps refer to the leaves below the flower.
The first two shots had Curves set Use Red-- Apply to RED
The second set of  snaps refers to USE GREEN--- Apply to YELLOW
You can see that change only affected leaves that had some yellow in them.

I have to split the 4 screen snaps into 2 posts. Please forgive me for that.
So see the red here, and the green/yellow in the follow up post

Hope this makes the imagination come to life.

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« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2010, 05:50:13 PM »

Here are the snaps of the GREEN on YELLOW
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« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2010, 05:55:33 PM »

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You can un-check "lock all" and apply different curves to individual colors by using the "Apply to" color at the bottom of the window.
Fred,
Show us a screen snap of the curve please, and the tick boxes.
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« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2010, 06:12:23 PM »

Thank you Terry for reminding me.
I was having trouble getting 4 screen snaps to be accepted.

Here are two more snaps.
The first one shows the preview box with the unfiltered/filtered slide cutting the right side leaf in half.
That shows you what the leaf looked like before the color was adjusted, and to the right of the filter line, after the color was adjusted.

You can see by the Curves screen that I "reduced" the green that was applied to the greenish yellow leaves, thereby making them look more yellow than they were before.

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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2010, 08:32:01 AM »

bollixing

That's a nice word,  I had to Google it to see what it means Smiley

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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2010, 06:11:30 PM »

Fred, I've been enjoying this thread. I reminds me of all of the Qimage features left to learn.

This latest on selective (more or less) color adjustment may be useful in some instances, but I prefer to be able to be really selective. Here's an example of what I mean. This is two images - the top row is #1; the bottom #2. #1 shows a standard color reference chart displayed on two monitors (running in two separate browsers). #2 shows #1 after post-processing the right hand chart in row #1. (I did not do this in Qimage. I was finishing a color management tutorial, got bored, read your latest, and decided to take a break. Sorry that it's a bit off your Qimage topic, but I thought it might be interesting to anyone who saw use for your trick - but with more control over the bollixing.)

In the right hand chart of row #2 (the "after image") you'll notice that the red square had its color changed. You'll also note that the change didn't affect any other colors at all. In fact, I did not even allow it to affect the same red square in the left hand chart. The entire process took less than 30 seconds. Capture NX 2 with U-Point technology (which works for cameras other than Nikon - except the RAW conversion is Nikon only.

If this post is too far off topic, feel free to kill it. As I said, I was getting bored and thought - there's a maybe better way to skin that cat without "bollixing" up everything else.

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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2010, 07:36:08 PM »

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Capture NX 2 with U-Point technology (which works for cameras other than Nikon - except the RAW conversion is Nikon only.

Thank you Ed, for that fine display of a very formidable piece of software.
It certainly does that job well. (No bollixing at all.   Wink

It also adds more strength to the value of a Qimage purchase since that seldom needed feature can still be accomplished using Qimage, with no need to purchase yet another piece of specialized software, at about 2X the cost of Qimage Studio.
I too have seen this done in Photo Shop where they lasso the area and change that color by selecting the area with marching ants!

If ever you want to see a color get bollixed, let a nest of marching ants have its way with your image.   Grin Cheesy Cool

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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2010, 08:29:48 PM »

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This latest on selective (more or less) color adjustment may be useful in some instances, but I prefer to be able to be really selective
Hi Ed, thanks for this interesting stuff from Nikon.
I must say that I often think using basic methods of image editing, like the use of curves, are falling by the wayside and being forgotten in favour of  some of the new fashionable adjustments like "Vibrance" and "Clarify".
You talking about being selective prompted me to show some examples of selective curve manipulation.
I expect most will know an "S" curve will increase contrast and saturation and the reverse shape will do the opposite. The basic rule is that an increase in the slope of the curve increases contrast and it does not have to be over most of its length. Quite small "kinks" can increase the contrast (or the opposite) in a localised area.
In Qimage, very fine adjustment can be made to the curve by RGB value directly rather that dragging on the curve with the mouse. Note the little number boxes on the images below.
The examples below (linked) are no great works of art  Shocked but illustrate the point; I have exaggerated the effects to make it more obvious.
RAW images processed in Qimage and then the RAW image further adjusted with a filter curve.

The castle was back lit with a bright sky; I have increased the contrast of the castle walls and the sky region.

The horse & windmill scene was taken on a very dull afternoon. The curve increased the contrast in the grey sky so there is some more variation in tone and the field and background "livened up" without making the dark areas too black.


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« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2010, 09:13:18 AM »

Thanks are again due to Fred and Terry for their input.

I am printing out hard copies of these posts  - and many others.

I have been using PS Elements a lot lately to 'touch up' portraits and create fancy backgrounds so Qimage has been a bit neglected.

These articles will be of great use when I get back to Qimage.

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« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2010, 10:24:42 AM »

Thanks Jeff for your feedback.
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I am printing out hard copies of these posts  - and many others.
Hopefully many other who have not "come out", are doing the same.
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These articles will be of great use when I get back to Qimage.
How do you live without it?  Shocked I have a compulsion to make prints on a regular basis, perhaps I should see my doctor  Grin
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