Problems with printing 8x10 photos on D10 Soft

[andreyua]

I have Canon D10 and the original software (Zoom Browser). I have problems printing sizes over 8x10, When I press Custom it does nothing when on the printer menu I set it to 8x10 it switches it back to letter.

What Do I do to print an 8x10?

[robertwgross]

Why don't you use normal image editing software to print your photos?

Photoshop, Photoshop LE, Photopaint, etc.

One of those came with your camera.

Then, within the program, get to know your printer driver settings.

---Bob Gross---

[Jesper]

You got Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 with your 10D. Install it and use that to print. Photoshop Elements is a lightweight version of the well-known and expensive Photoshop, but it's just fine if you want to do some corrections to your images and it works much better for printing than Canon's software.

[scottbergerphoto]

You got Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 with your 10D. Install it and use that to print. Photoshop Elements is a lightweight version of the well-known and expensive Photoshop, but it's just fine if you want to do some corrections to your images and it works much better for printing than Canon's software.
That's very good advice. Photoshop Elements 2.0 is a very good program. The term "lightweight" can be misleading. The only major things it lacks are curves and the ability to work in 16 bit. Most Photoshop plug-ins are compatible. Using it for the last two years has made the transition to CS much easier then if I went straight to PS CS. I highly recommend it.
Scott

[andreyua]

I use the canon software because of the templates it has.... I also got all the other software you guys are talking about. In my situation speed counts.

Does Photoshop and Elements have stuff like templates?

PS. What do you guys think about PhotoImpact?

[scottbergerphoto]

I use the canon software because of the templates it has.... I also got all the other software you guys are talking about. In my situation speed counts.

Does Photoshop and Elements have stuff like templates?

PS. What do you guys think about PhotoImpact?
If by templates, you mean layouts for many pictures on one page, then yes PSE2 does have it.

[KennyG]

Simple solution - Q Image. It will take away all the hassle. It will do all you want and a lot more.

[scottbergerphoto]

Simple solution - Q Image. It will take away all the hassle. It will do all you want and a lot more.
I don't think QImage has color management. Does it?

[drisley]

Simple solution - Q Image. It will take away all the hassle. It will do all you want and a lot more.
I don't think QImage has color management. Does it?

Yes, it does. It's awesome, and the only software I use to print.

[Dans_D60]

Working with your 10D (1D, 1Ds, etc) is like the old days working with slide film. It’s not very forgiving with respect to dynamic range of light. Luckily Canon made the decision not to over sharpen the RAW or even JPEG images.

Yes, use any of the commercially available software programs to complete the workflow from DSLR to print or screen.

Simple everyday example below.

Shot these images a few weeks ago of a 10 year old girl. All samples are cropped and printed on 8X10 for this customer.

The stages of simple (and fast) workflow in Photoshop as follows:

1. View Captured Image with no enhancements (color, sharpening, etc).

http://www.pettusphoto.com/sharp/2.jpg


2. Focus on the subjects eyes. Color OK? Needs Sharpening? (I look for each eyelash but not to over-sharpen)

http://www.pettusphoto.com/sharp/3.jpg

3. Final images cropped, sharpened, and color corrected ready for print

IMAGE 1 HEADSHOT 8X10

http://www.pettusphoto.com/sharp/1.jpg



IMAGE 2 CLOSE UP 8X10

http://www.pettusphoto.com/sharp/4.jpg



Dan

[andreyua]

Im having no luck printing 8x10's on Elements 2.0.....
Any suggestions?

Thanks

[rsnadel]

Assuming there's no manual to read, go to a bookstore and buy a book that serves as a manual for operating the software. You could also go to a site like www.amazon.com or www.bn.com and search for books on Photoshop Elements. I have two of Scott Kelby's Photoshop CS books and find them very useful.

[ombra]

I must add 7 enthusiastic thumbs up for QImage.

It is absolutely superb. It does N-up printing, templates, custom interpolation, ICC color management for print, display and camera, batch printing, cropping per print without messing with your file, support for jpeg, tiff and photoshop files, and skads of other features.

It is the best money I've ever spent on software. It puts Photoshop's printing support to shame, both in features and image quality. *

And it has a free demo.


* for weenies who care, the reason QImage has superior output is that Photoshop sends your file to the printer as-is, and lets your printer handle the interpolation from (whatever size your file is) to (the resolution your printer wants to print at). Printers generally have really bad interpolation, since it is being done by a $1 microprocessor with no RAM, so they have to use simplistic algorithms. QImage knows what printer you have, and scales the image up _first_ using all the horsepower of your computer to do the work, and using much more sophisticated algorithms.
This yields substantially superior output. Print the same image with both, and if you don't agree, I'll eat my hat. And yes, you could achieve very similar results if you did the scaling up yourself by hand in Photoshop, and then printed it. Have a go at figuring out exactly how many pixels it needs to be in each direction, and you will see the benefit of QImage doing it automatically.

And no, I do not have any affiliation with QImage except that I have been a very happy customer for several years.

Cheers,
Another Dan