Re: Preparing Digital Pics for Commercial Processing

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:03:49 -0400, Edw. Peach <bogus_addie@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:39:13 -0700, "Mike Kohary" <sorry@xxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>Thanks. Your answer is closest to what I'm looking for. I do not
>want drugstore prints. Perhaps I should not have mentioned that
>incident as it misleads you the reader from what I really want.
>
>Again, here is what I want to do:
>
>I have carefully composed my photos not as snapshots but as works of
>art. All the elements in my photo are important to the whole. I do
>not want any cropping. I want copies of my entire photo, just as I
>prepared it. That's all I want.
>
>(As you can tell, I know nothing about the printing process, only the
>taking photos process.)

In that case, you need to take the opposite tack - you do not want to
crop the picture to fit a predetermined paper size, you want to choose
a paper size that fits your pictures. When I tried to fit your
resolutions as closely as possible to 5x7, we came up with
non-standard paper sizes, but you need to find out what standard paper
sizes will fit your pictures' aspect ratios. So, here are the
*standard* sizes (from 3x4 to 9x12) you can choose from for the
resolutions you stated:

1280x960 = 3x4 and 9x12
2272x1704 = 3x4 and 9x12 (these first two are the same aspect ratio)
2392x1944 = none

As you can see, not much to choose from. If you want a standard size
such as 4x6, 5x7 or 8x10, you are going to have to crop - no choice in
the matter. Otherwise, you can choose to print at non-standard sizes
and make custom frames for them. Nothing wrong with that either, but
it will take more work and expense.

If you print pictures at non-standard sizes, they will be printed on
standard-size paper that most closely fits the non-standard size of
the picture, hence the "letterbox effect" (i.e. your picture is
printed in the middle, with two strips of white on the top and bottom,
just like what happens when a widescreen movie is displayed on a
nearly-square television set). You can then cut off the strips to
attain a full-print picture, and as I said will have to make custom
frames to fit them.

I came up with the sizing numbers by going into Photoshop, selecting
"Image Resize", and while telling Photoshop to maintain the aspect
ratio, plugging different numbers into the width field. You can
probably do the same thing in Paint Shop Pro so you can see the
numbers for yourself.

Good luck!

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