Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: OleValdal on January 19, 2010, 05:53:39 pm
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Is there any way to make Lightroom add (user adjustable) gallery wrapping to canvas prints without going through Photoshop?
Using some kind of template (not very likely i guess) or plugin?
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Geniune Fractals 6.
It does require Photoshop. At the time I purchased GF 6 I did not have Photoshop and was required to purchase it so GF 6 would work. To this day all I use Photoshop for is the pass through for all my plugins that require it.
Lightroom does it all for me.
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Or Colorbyte Imageprint for this and lots of other reasons if you are printing on Epson printers.
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Qimage has recently added support for canvas printing to its Studio edition.
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How does Imageprint or Qimage integrate with a workflow so far almost exclusively based on LR? Hefty pricetag on Imageprint if only used for gallery wraps...
Genuine Fractals might be an option, although I was hoping for some method making it possible to exlclude PS. Today I use an action in Photoshop, but find it annoying having to leave LR and print from PS. It´s confusing getting the measurements and sharpening correct in print if the wrapped photo is returned to LR for printing.
To further add to annoyments I use the 64-bit version of PS, and recently discovered that very few plugins support 64-bit (no, I almost never use plugins).
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Ah the vagaries of software. We want the universal tool set that does it all, kind of like WD-40, duct tape and a hammer. My workflow with Colorprint is import to LR, make adjustments as needed, open the edit through LR to PS, make any adjustments not able to be done in LR, use the Genuine Fractals to do the scaling, save the work and print through ColorPrint 8.
If I want imaged edges I do that in Colorprint. If I want black on the wrap I do that in PS after GF by changing the canvas size with a black base.
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How does Imageprint or Qimage integrate with a workflow so far almost exclusively based on LR? Hefty pricetag on Imageprint if only used for gallery wraps...
Genuine Fractals might be an option, although I was hoping for some method making it possible to exlclude PS. Today I use an action in Photoshop, but find it annoying having to leave LR and print from PS. It´s confusing getting the measurements and sharpening correct in print if the wrapped photo is returned to LR for printing.
To further add to annoyments I use the 64-bit version of PS, and recently discovered that very few plugins support 64-bit (no, I almost never use plugins).
Want to clear up a couple of things for you based on your above comments. I see you have Lightroom and I believe Photoshop as well. With Genuine Fractals you do not have to do anything in Photoshop it is all automatic. You send the image from Lightroom to GF6 and it opens photoshop at the same time. You do all of your selections in GF6 ,sizing stretched edges and even sharpening and click apply. Everything is processed automaticly back through Photoshop and the image is sent back to Lightroom ready to print. Open the print dialog and print. This takes me all of 2 minutes. I have tried many programs to print from and Lightroom in my opinion has them all beat. YOMV