Okay folks, I accidentally discovered the problem and how to fix it. Now mind you, this is a working theory, but being the timing of it all, it has to be. Sorry for the length, but for anybody's future reference I wanted this to be here.

Well, a few weeks ago I went into Qimage to create a custom size for something I was having printed up. Not knowing much about Qimage (I use it only for printing/upsizing) all I did was change the size under the box where it reads "custom" (lower right side on my screen) I did not touch the ICC profiles at all. However, I started to have problems with printing. It would not print the whole photo. It would seperate it into fours on one 8X10 (any size really), and print part of the same photo, of the same area on each of the four sections. I was bewildered. Fiddled with it for several weeks, never doing much because I do not print much. Well, yesterday my 12 year old daughter wanted me to scan, then print some photos for a Mother's Day gift (BTW, happy belated Mother's Day to all you mothers out there). It was time to fix the problem. Still could not figure it out, so if you go under help (in Qimage) you can click on something there to reset all parameters (properties) to how Qimage was when you first installed. Potential problem is that you lose any custom properties you have set, something I wanted to do for the size thing. I clicked on that, and could now print.

Now the exciting part is that I have been working on my daughter's bridal photos just recently, and I scanned my other daughter's photos whilst I was working on the bridal photos. Well, my daughter that is getting married was visiting for Mother's Day and so I was showing them to her. I started showing her the before and after just so she could see and appreciate what has been done. Now for you who have been following this saga, you may remember that I have previously saved them in PS 5.0 LE as TIFF so they would be "normal." I started opening the "befores" and showing them to her. About half way through I realized I had the JPEG's opened that were previously "too dark." At first I thought I was a little crazy, so I looked through them. Sure enough they were normal. A couple of TIFF files that I had printed in Qimage, and they were "older" files, were also darker (which had me really confused). PSE will now let me uncheck the profile box under "save as". At first it still looks too dark. But when you close it and re-open it appears normal, and best of all, the original profile is now attached.

I had done all the above before (relating only to PSE), and nothing worked.

So, in the end, it would appear that the problem was with Qimage. When I created the custom size, I unknowingly (it may be the default) attached the other ICC profile which affected image visualization in PSE. Interestingly thing though, it is a "conflict" between PSE and Qimage, as PS 5.0 LE never had a problem displaying the photos correctly. It also only affected all photos from the time I created that custom size, and any photos I printed which were "older" photos. Sounds strange to me, but it is how it all worked out. For me, a great day. :) :D

Next to getting my PSE back "as good as new," is that before this I never really came here. I have had a look around on the various subjects and am glad I had this problem to discover the many talented minds around here.

Thanks to all who have help.

Brian

Brian_Currie

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