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| Thread ID: 97974 | 2009-03-06 04:00:00 | Getting Digital photos printed | Morgenmuffel (187) | PC World Chat |
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| 753887 | 2009-03-06 04:00:00 | Ok when I get photos printed, often when viewed in Landscape format I seem to lose part of the top and bottom of the photo. Any idea how to prevent this, I realise it is probably something to do with the aspect ratio of what the camera takes and the printing size. But help would be appreciated |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 753888 | 2009-03-06 04:26:00 | Not a lot you can do really. The Aspect ratio of a lot of Digital Cameras are not 6x4 so you automatically loose some off top and some off bottom. You can edit them in an image program first and size them as good as you can to fit on a 6x4 then put them back on your card and take them to get printed. Aspect ratio of my Canon 30D is 6x4. My Kodak Z740 and other smaller Canon PowerShot S2 IS is higher than is it wide ratio wise, and off my Sony HDRHC9E video cam photos are way wider than high so the sides would get chopped. Although I edit my own and print my own, plus print for a few clients I have to crop them, but at least I can choose where to crop to make it 6x4. 6x4 is standard, you would loose slightly less if you printed a 7x5 photo Example of one I just tested in Photoshop Original Image 3072 pixels x 2304 pixels Cropped for 7" x 5" It comes down to 3072 x 2194 pixels Cropped to 6 x 4" 3072 x 2048 pixels Cropped to 8 x 10" 2880 x 2304 pixels (It cuts off the sides instead of top/bottom. With the Epson software for my Epson printers I can get away with no cropping, I can drag the image about in the software and it will print what I see. So I can drag it up or down etc until it prints the portion I want. BUT It will still crop off what I don't see due to Aspect Ratio. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 753889 | 2009-03-06 04:36:00 | I tend to resize my photographs prior to the lab. If i was using a camera that gave a non standard size, I may have a 6x4 inch canvas in white and inside put a slightly smaller photograph .. therefore the photograph comes out un squashed. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 753890 | 2009-03-06 04:54:00 | Ok when I get photos printed, often when viewed in Landscape format I seem to lose part of the top and bottom of the photo. Any idea how to prevent this, I realise it is probably something to do with the aspect ratio of what the camera takes and the printing size. Yes, you have to crop your pics before taking them to the lab. An excellent lossless cropping program that someone recommended to me on here years ago is JPEGCrops (ekot.dk). |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 753891 | 2009-03-06 04:58:00 | Personally, I'd rather print them myself. My inkjet printer does an acceptable job on photographic paper. I usually print a very rough draft first to see if the picture looks ok and it works well. Worth giving a try then you have it the way you want it. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 753892 | 2009-03-06 05:04:00 | I print 99.9% of mine and clients on an Epson R1900 or an Photo R800, but after a while they fade. If it is one I definitely want to keep I print it off on a Kodak Photo Printer I have here, it is a 4 colour printer and the photos last a lot longer fade wise. I would probably print about 45 a week average. I buy in photo paper on 50's about 4-5 packs at a time. The cost of the Kodak costs me approx $1 per photo with the Paper/Ink packs Kodak sell. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 753893 | 2009-03-06 06:05:00 | Yeah I used to print more myself but not anymore. Paper are very expensive and then the ink cost too. Online labs like can do 25c per 6x4 that is a true bargain on glossy paper, I have seen glossy paper off some high ended Epson printers but they are just not the same if you are wanting true glossy prints from the film days. I tend to print A4 or larger at home. I have a 2nd hand 2100/2200 Epson A3. Also good if you wanna use special paper, cos a pro lab will be very expensive. Or true matte paper for that matter cos pro labs do them again, mini labs don't. They have glossy and matte which is more a semi glossy bumpy texture paper - commonly referred to as lustre. When the NZD was strong I even imported ink from USA and planned to import photo paper too. They are half price to us. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 753894 | 2009-03-06 06:08:00 | I go here:- www.snapfish.co.nz They will automatically resize prints to suit if you go for 6x4. At 19cents a print they are very good. Colours don't seem to fade either. I don't work for them BTW. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 753895 | 2009-03-06 06:17:00 | The adv I see for self print is if you have a elaborate color mgmt system the colors come out closer to your screen. If they are just snapshots and you don't that much equip or not into photog as much, I just go for online prints. I have frogprints and snapfish both really good. If not mistaken the snapfish also provides you $10 or $20 free as well when you first sign up as a credit on your account. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 753896 | 2009-03-06 07:18:00 | Snapfish = first 20 prints free. | Sweep (90) | ||
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