Qimage Help

I can't seem to print a photo without cutting one side off. I need help printing the full photo.

Go to http://ddisoftware.com/tech/index.php and ask for help there. That's the Qimage Support Forum.

NJTrout

It would also help if you would show and example of what the cut-off image looked like!

Jpegman

2string said:

I can't seem to print a photo without cutting one side off. I need help printing the full photo.

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As NJTrout suggested, try the Qimage forum - but check you haven't got "crop lock" set at on. In the panel that shows the standard print sizes it is a button showing a pair of scissors on the next to bottom bar on the left. If it's greyed out, it is off and the full picture will be printed. If it is on, the picture will be cropped to fit the chosen standard size.

I can't seem to fill the prevue box completely with the photo and when I do it cuts off some of the side of it. I choose the correct paper size that I'm using. Does Qimage resize the photo or do I need to crop it to the proper paper size.

2string said:

I can't seem to fill the prevue box completely with the photo and when I do it cuts off some of the side of it. I choose the correct paper size that I'm using. Does Qimage resize the photo or do I need to crop it to the proper paper size.

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Yes and Yes, but it depends on your settings.

Very simply if the scissors icon in activated it implements a non destructively crop to your selected size.

There is lot a lot of choices under the hood in Qimage.

More information about your settings would help. Even spend a few minutes reviewing the video tutorials.

rs

Auto cropping is off. The scissor is grayed out. I put a sheet of 8x10 in the printer and set all settings to match. Do I pick in the drop down menu, 8x10, original size, fit to page or fit to paper? I have asked the question on the Qimage forum. No response yet. I will check out some vids. Thanks for trying, It's very difficult to explain. To many settings.

2string said:

Auto cropping is off. The scissor is grayed out. I put a sheet of 8x10 in the printer and set all settings to match. Do I pick in the drop down menu, 8x10, original size, fit to page or fit to paper? I have asked the question on the Qimage forum. No response yet. I will check out some vids. Thanks for trying, It's very difficult to explain. To many settings.

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Quick thing to try. I don't have Qimage in front of me, so this is from memory. You will need to take your image into the edit screen, and crop it, then send it to your printing page window (but only after your printer is set up properly).

1. Clear the image from your print page (in the right panel, lower-right of your car image, click on the red "-" button.

2. Also in the print screen area, click on the Settings tab and make sure that you have your printer settings properly set up for 8x10, paper type, and however you wish to handle color management and other printer settings as appropriate.

3. Double-click the thumbnail of your car image (in the left panel). Your image will open up in the edit screen.

4. In the right side area of the edit screen, find a button which says something like "crop wizard", or maybe it's "smart crop", or something like that.

5. A dialogue box will open and you should select paper size 8x10, and make sure the Landscape mode is selected (I'm assuming this is how you want to crop it), then OK (or something to that effect).

6. Your image should now be open on the left side of the screen, with a dashed line showing the 8x10 framing. You can adjust the amount and location of the cropping, then click on "Done".

7. A dialogue box will pop up asking you if you want to apply a filter (or preset?) to the original file, or create a new file - I always choose the filter/ preset option.

8. This should take you back to the original printing screen (as in your screen capture). Now, click on the "+" button in the lower right corner of your car image thumbnail, and you should see your car image on the print page panel to the right, hopefully showing the properly cropped image now.

9. You should now be ready to print.

You can make certain additional adjustments to how it will print on the page in the right panel before printing under the Live View tab, but generally I have found that many if not most of the printer Settings tab changes need to be done Before adding your image to the Live View printing page.

Qimage is by nature complex due to so many features and options, but after you use it a few times I think it becomes much more intuitive, and the output is the best I've seen except for high-end RIPs.

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-Dennis W.
Austin, Texas
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Funny thing is, I have printed many photos mostly 13x19 with no problems. I have never needed to crop. I decided to do a 8x10 and now having the problem.

2string said:

Funny thing is, I have printed many photos mostly 13x19 with no problems. I have never needed to crop. I decided to do a 8x10 and now having the problem.

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Nothing funny about it - 13 x 19 and 8 x 10 have different aspect ratios. Your image shows the total car image to me (aspect ratio) fitted to the paper as best as possible - which is what QImage does perfectly. Nothing wrong with QImage that I can see - happens all the time when the image and paper are different ratios of height to width.

Jpegman

2string said:

Funny thing is, I have printed many photos mostly 13x19 with no problems. I have never needed to crop. I decided to do a 8x10 and now having the problem.

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I will be at my computer either later tonight, or tomorrow morning, so for now I'm winging it.

Your original screen capture image is a little fuzzy, and taken from a higher angle, so there may be some geometric distortion in my trying to see what aspect ratios you actually have there -- I'm assuming that your image is a 3:2 aspect ratio, taken either with an aps-c or ff camera, or the camera is set to 3:2 picture ratio, correct? Next, the live view tab shows an 8x10 page set up, in landscape orientation, correct?

If the answer to both of these is "yes", then the simplest answer is that when you were set up for 13x19 inch printing, that is almost exactly the 3:2 aspect ratio of your original image, so you got lucky, and all of the image fit on the 13x19 sheet, almost perfectly with fairly even borders. However, the 8x10 sheet is a more square ratio, 5:4 to be exact. So, you must crop your image, or have large white space wasted on your final print. You have a couple of choices going forward, to resolve this.

One way is to turn the scissors (auto-crop) on, and from your screen capture you also need to adjust the Qimage settings in live view to center the image on the page. You can then use the free-hand mode to fine-tune the position of your image on the page.

The other way is to use my workflow (above), by editing the image to get exactly the crop you want and apply that filter/ preset, then add the image to the live view print page for printing.

Either way, you will either have large borders at the bottom or both top and bottom (if you center the image on the page for printing), or you will have to crop some of the image at the left and/ or right.

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-Dennis W.
Austin, Texas