michael_radika

I don't want to pass on it because when it's running it works very well when it's actually working it's getting it to work.

Nobody out there and photoland has encountered this problem? I got a laptop that I want to work with this program and I've got about three days to take it back and get a refund and end up going with a desktop that I can put a video card in that's compatible.

I wanted to add another thing all my other photo programs and photo to paint programs run perfectly fine zero issues why is it only the topaz Labs has he issue they're just notorious for this stuff it pisses me off because they don't seem to address the issues and I really like the program I just don't like the way they run their business.

Hey guys I'm hoping somebody on this form can help me bent over on topaz Labs discussion forum and contacted their customer support it's absolutely ridiculous nobody ever answers you I'm tired of it. I have a laptop I just bought it has an integrated UHD Intel 630 Graphics it also has a Nvidia 1050 Graphics built in. I cannot get topaz Labs Studio to run I've configured it where it's all on the Nvidia 1050 card I've configured it where it's all on the UHD 630 cannot get it to run when I click on the icon it starts and it says welcome to Topaz Labs but it never goes any further it gets stuck there every single time. There are people on the topaz forums it say they've got it to work don't exactly explain how and nobody seems to answer anybody over there I'm one of there's anybody on this forum that could help me with settings. I guess this program is very graphically hungry so my Nvidia 1050 card on my laptop is probably the stronger GPU just looking for anybody that is ran into this issue and has fixed it and has it working thank you. I really love that program it's one of my favorite programs and I may take my laptop back if I can't get it to work my old laptop at work no problem it was slow but it worked I guess this topaz Labs is very the graphic card is very particular what works and what doesn't work they've got a whole list of compatibility uncomn patible their website is a mess and they're not very helpful. Michael

Yeah I did some searching I guess I have a place here in California called Hobby Lobby and it's not that much to have one cut. Plus there's a place called mats and more online it's pretty inexpensive thanks for all the tips.

Yeah it's not possible it's not possible to get the whole image onto an 8 by 10 it's impossible to get the whole image on an 11 by 14 it's not possible to get the whole image on a 16 by 20 it's just completely the wrong aspect ratio. So I guess the best thing I can do is overcompensate go a little wider of the lens than I anticipated and allow room for cropping. Or print 7 by 10.68 which will give you your full image 11x17 13 by 19 17 by 22 but now you basically can't buy mats that are already cut for those Oddball sizes.

Let me try to explain it 3:2 aspect ratio photo. I'm using 8.5 X 11 inkjet paper in my Canon Pixma Pro printer. I'm trying to print a photo and get it 8 by 10 when I print full page of the 8.5 x 11 I get a 7 by 10.68 image it gives me the full image that's not going to work with an 8 by 10 mat. I know the print the whole image and has to be 8 X 12 I don't want that that's not going to work is there a way to resize a image without cropping it to Pieces another words I want to keep the whole image but printed 8 by 10 is that possible?

I'm not following when I go into Lightroom and I moved a little sliders and I set up 8x10 it's cropping the crud out of My image the only thing is letting me do is prints 7 by 10.5 to get the full image in it will not let me print 8 by 10 without cropping it.

Can you guys recommend a good resizing program to resize my files. I'm working in a program that I believe it puts it out it 3200 X by 1880. When am I in Lightroom getting ready to print on my Pixma pro-100 I'm having the crop the crap out of it to be able to get onto an 8 by 10 I'm using 8.5 by 11 inkjet paper how do I go about resizing my image to make it fit it ain't by 8x10. I know I can just crop it but I don't want to lose all the real estate on my photo so I need to change the aspect ratio I'm guessing.

Well I was over in one of the painting forums on some of the software I'm using and somebody contacted me on my thread and gave me a little Golden Nugget. For the Canon Pixma pro-100 the Canon Pixma pro-10 and the Canon 1000 graph you can use Moab inkjet paper ICC profile for velvet paper they make a velvet paper. I believe it's called Somerset velvet paper at Moab download the ICC profile any of the above Canon printers it's a dead match the ICC profile is just spot on now I ran the Epson paper The Velvet paper through my Canon with this profile beautiful looks absolutely beautiful. Although I still prefer Museum matching and William Turner paper but the Epson velvet paper is very good hope that help somebody like it helped me.

Thanks for your reply guys I was printing Museum matching William Turner and other papers no problem I calibrated my monitor with an online software tool that got it not perfect but way closer than it was now the screen in the prints are within 90%. Plan on buying a monitor calibrator soon just can't afford one right now at the moment a good one. The only problem with the Epson Fine Art velvet paper is there's no ICC profile for my printer for any Canon printer unless an individual made one up themselves and they be willing to share it with you other than that I will be dropping the Epson velvet paper from my lineup. For the type of prints I'm doing what I'm printing out photos of that have been turned into paintings or watercolors I don't think there's anything better than the William Turner or the museum etching paper those are excellent excellent papers and work very well through my printer any of ICC profiles. I have heard very good things about the Canon Pro matte paper I don't know if they make it anymore but you can still read Lie by it but I heard that it's extremely good and it's very low priced I'm definitely going to give that one a try to. I'm going to call Canon also and find out why or what version of Lightroom allows you to use Canon Studio Pro cuz Canon Studio Pro allows you to print out little test samples little squares you get on a test sheet and then you're able to compare them to your monitor as far as color and everything goes in really dial it in I watch some videos on it again I don't know there may be better stuff but I've heard nothing but good things about it. Have never been able to get it to work inside of Lightroom like it's supposed to obviously having only Lightroom 5.7 maybe I need a newer version but I'm going to call them and find out. I was really anxious to try that velvet paper to cuz I've heard really good things about it but yeah now that my prints are coming out much better they're not perfect but they're much better than they were I don't imagine finding a better paper than the William Turner paper.

I have another question I hope somebody can answer I have the Canon Pixma pro-100 I just bought some Epson Fine Art velvet paper heard nothing but good things about it no matter what I do it won't print it looks horrible coming out of my printer. Epson or Canon do not have ICC profiles for each other so there is no ICC profile for the Velvet paper on the Canon so it's a lot of trial-and-error I've burned about 6 sheets and every single one of them look horrible. Looking for somebody that has successfully printed on the Epson Fine Art velvet paper in a Canon Pixma pro-100 or 1000 printer love to know what your settings are,?

Yep first thing I got to do is calibrate that monitor. Especially when you're printing expensive Fine Art papers that are three or four dollars a sheet Can I get me a colormunki off of eBay.

Thank you for your reply I appreciate it. I will just stick with Lightroom printing. So the Plus 10 that you talked about at the bottom of the Lightroom screen that's if your prints are coming out light you can add more brightness to it with that setting?. The main thing I have to do is I have to calibrate my monitor because what I see on the screen was coming out is nowhere near the same. But I do love the printer and the William Turner paper and the Epson velvet paper are fantastic for printing out photos that have been converted to oil paintings or watercolor they look fantastic on those papers.

Yeah yes thank you for all of your answers I appreciate it my version of Lightroom is not that old. I'm wondering if I upgrade to version 6 maybe the Studio Pro will work. I've never used it but I heard it's very good that it's better than the Lightroom printing I don't know cuz I've never tried it but I want to try it but I can't get it to work. There is another piece of software that comes with the Canon that I don't like printing out of so I'm just printing out of my Lightroom and playing around with ICC profiles or letting the printer choose to print itself and Let It Go so I'm kind of experimenting. I'm printing out some digital paintings from fotosketcher on different types of matte art paper and it looks pretty damn interesting I have to say but trying to dial it in and got to calibrate my monitor I got a lot of stuff to do to get it really dialed-in but I'm going to try upgrading my Lightroom and see if that works.

Looking for anybody that's using the Canon Pixma pro-100 and running the Canon Pro Studio app. The Pro Studio printing app is supposed to work from Photoshop and Lightroom I'm running Lightroom 5.7 or 5.8 I cannot get the Pro Studio to work when I try to print. It shows up under plugins in Lightroom I could see it on the drop-down menu but when I go to click on it I get an error message every single time I've reinstalled it reinstalled it reinstalled it can't get it to work does anybody know a fix for this because it's supposed to work?

Well after playing with this thing for a while I've decided to purchase it to get the watermark removed from it it's a fantastic program you just got to know how to dial it in. Made some very interesting Monet paintings from it that look pretty impressive I'm going to have them printed out on William Turner watercolor paper. What's better I think about this program than Photoshop I think it offers a lot more flexibility Photoshop takes forever to turn stuff into paintings this thing does it like in nothing flat and I think they're just for more options. When I'm done I take it back into Lightroom and fine-tune it and it's ready to go so all update once I get the prints back.

Yeah I just went to Staples and have a 12 by 18 printed out on a poster of a watercolor and I'm very disappointed it's sort of resembles a watercolor but it's obvious that it's not I don't know how close these programs when you print them out that they actually get to looking like a real thing I obviously it'll never replace the real thing but I was expecting more authenticity.

Turn this another one called topaz impression I tried to download it the free version of it and it wouldn't run on my Windows computer was all those all buggy I want everybody has experienced with this program from what I read it sounds pretty darn good?

So actually did a picture of a Paris scene and I clicked on the van Gogh drop down menu which turns your photo into look like Van Gogh you can control the brushstrokes you can control how much paint everything. I took it over to Walmart cuz I had to see it printed out. Just looking at it on a computer screen I had to print it out I'm not sure if it's completely matte paper or not. I have to say I'm pretty impressed I mean it totally looks like a van Gogh course I don't have the program dialed and there's lots to learn but just initial impressions are I'm very impressed with it.

Definitely very good software lots of options lots of details you can control brushstrokes definitely would take some time to learn this program to get it dialed in. Just messing around for a couple hours I came up with some interesting stuff I'm actually over at Walmart having it printed out right now I'm so curious what it looks like printed out so I'll let you know.

Hey thanks for your replies I appreciate it I tried the fotosketcher don't like it doesn't have a lot of control I don't I don't like it I'm trying one called Dynamic Auto painter it's pretty good.

Looking for some help I'm trying to get some recommendation for a program. I'm kind of really liking the look of photos where they kind of end up looking like oil paintings or watercolor paintings or somewhere in between there. I've seen different videos on it using Photoshop are there any programs that anybody knows of that are designed especially for transforming photos into oil paintings watercolor paintings that type stuff? My second question would be once you have your photo converted to an oil painting type photo what would be the best type of paper to print it out on would it be Canvas OR you have to kind of keep it more realistic looking not sure what type of paper to use? Thanks again I appreciate all your help.

I'm going to give you a recommendation that I personally use on the Nikon d7200 and you're not going to beat it even with primes. I don't know how why do you want to go I would purchase the Sigma 18 to 35 mm F 1.8 art lens phenomenal lens on the d7200 gives you about 24 mm 25 mm2 about 52 mm tack sharp wide open at F 1.8 corner to corner auto focus is fantastic you can pick up one for $500 on eBay can't recommend it more.

I did Google it and there is a known issue all over the Internet about firmware update 1.13 disables Sigma art lenses that crazy. I don't know if Sigma has a fix for it most people I rather going back to 1.12 and having no problem but what does 1.13 bring to the camera I'm going to call Sigma and see what they say about this issue.