 Michael E. Quintana |
How To Re-Size Images? I shot photos of an event & I uploaded them to be printed. What is the best way to size the images to print as 8x10's without losing or squashing the image?? The image looks best in 8x12, but I need to print them in 8x10, but they look like crap!!
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John Rhodes |
Michael, sorry, but you must crop to obtain the desired dimensions. Some images will not suffer from resizing, but any image with an object(s) that our mind know what the correct proportions should be, the result is not acceptable. For many of my images, I stopped trying to change the aspect ratio, choosing instead to stay with the :2 ration, i.e. 8 x 12 or 16 x 24. John
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John P. Sandstedt |
The BP thread on print size raged long and wide. When Matthew Brady made prints during the Civil War he used a view camera and most of his prints were in the 4:5 aspect ratio. That translates to 8X10 and 16X20 prints. I don't know why 35 mm film camera manufacturers adopted the 2:3 aspect ration, which yields 3R [3.5X5] prints, 4X6, 5X7, 8X12, etc. When I started shooting, all that was available was 3Rs. Whenever you enlarged to an 8X10, the photofinisher made the decision on cropping. Ouch!!! Kodak announced Jumbo prints - 4X6s for slightly more money. Wow! But, this really took the cropping decision out of the finisher's mind and Voila, computerized developing machines were born. Digital continues the 2:3 aspect rationale. And, that's probably appropriate. Of course, there are medium format cameras like the Hassleblad that are in the 4.5X6 ratio. Olympus would like to have us all move to its 4.3:3 aspect ratio. It's still not 4:5 [or, if you like, 5:4] but it would force all of us to change again. I'm still perfectly comfortable with 2:3 and have been for more than 45 years. Whenever I shoot, I try to leave enough room around the edges of my subject or scene to allow for cropping. Then I crop to approximately a 2:3 aspect ratio if I have to and print. When I used a Canon S800 that uses 8.5X11 paper,] I always set the longest dimension at 10.5 inches and took whatever I got for the shorter dimension. That's because the printer doesn't allow borderless prints. When I make my window mattes, I get a window with a 10 in dimensions at least. I can frame at 11X14, 12X16 and even 16X20. It's your choice so long as you take your shot knowing you might have to crop [to the 4:5 aspect ration.]
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Ariel Lepor |
How are you printing? Are you just complaining about quality? Because, well, you either need to crop off part of the image or you need to squeeze it a little. No way to add on to the shorter dimension aside from that. Ariel
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