William Yost |
Picture Sizing I just purchased a sony P9 digital camera, my first digital. I shoot 1600x1200(fine). When I developed the pictures (4x6) they were all cropped. QUESTION; is there a program - or how do I size the pictures to the proper size for 4x6 and 5x7, so there is no cropping.
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Scott |
Dear William Y, I've recently, like so many others, bought a digital camera after 20 years continuing film use. The problem you have is that your camera takes pictures in a 4X3 ratio, the paper sizes are closer to 3X2. This means to fill the paper one way you either get a big white border on two edges or you lose a portion of your picture. Labs normally give you the white borders, as this way you get the entire scene that you shot. The way I get different sizes is to crop and resize in Adobe Elements and then write the adjusted file/photo to CD, and then get that printed. The easiest way to get around the border problem is to get a good quality trimmer and take the excess and distracting borders off. Not very high tec I know but still the best way. You cannot, to my knowledge, change the ratio of your CCD and if you could, you could only do so by not using as many pixels. This would defeat the point of getting the camera, and pixel count that you did. Hope this helps, regards Scott.
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William Yost |
Thank you Scott, for responding so quickly. It obviously wasn't the answer I hoped to hear, in our high technology times. I hoped a program would fix all. thanks again.
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Chris |
There are digital photo printing services who support the 4x3 ratio. One example is www.photocolor.de/english/index.htm directly on the boarder between Germany and Switzerland.
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Duane D |
Sizing is a problem for me also. I have discovered that PhotoDeluxe 4 has a resizing ability that allows you pretty complete control of what gets cropped, etc., in common photo sizes up to 8x10. I often send an image there to resize and either finish it there or re-open it in Elements for final work. I have not been able to find an easy way to do this in Elements or elsewhere(?).
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Karen Maleta |
Hi William, There is a program out there... very simple, fun, and inexpensive! ($40.00) With just the basics for editing. It is called Jasc Aftershot. The photo crop option lets you pick whatever size you want the picture to be, and places a template on the photo, so that you can crop it exactly. Also, many of the online services such as dotphoto, snapfish, photoaccess, etc., will allow you to select a cropping choice for each photo before your images are printed.
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Diane H. Inskeep |
I, too, have had sizing problems. Resizing can sometimes make the tall thin dancer short and fat... and have finally figured out the following.....Next time, Take the photos with lots of space on all sides of the subjects, which makes the "get in closer" phototip somewhat limited. Also, in Jim's online photoshop for photographers class, we learned about making an oval around the subject, and filling the area outside the oval with white. I used this idea to solve sizing problems... What that does is make the photo looked matted, but retains all of the image. I just rescued several photos of dancers that were tall narrow printed photos (6x10 with white edges next to the images), and was able to adjust to an 8x10 print size for the customer. Hope this makes sense......Diane Inskeep dinskeep@attbi.com
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David Vasquez |
I know this may sound like a cheating way, but here is one solution that I use. Ofoto.com has a free program called "OfotoNow" that can be used to keep the aspect ratios of pictures right for pictures. It has this information in the HELP file: The following aspect ratios are standard: For a 4 x 6" print, your photo should have an aspect ratio of 1:1.5 For a 5 x 7" print, your photo should have an aspect ratio of 1:1.4 For an 8 x 10" print, your photo should have an aspect ratio of 1:1.25 For a Wallet-size print, your photo should have an aspect ratio of 1:1.5 For a 16 x 20 print: Your image should have an aspect ratio of 1:1.25 For a 20 x 30 print: Your image should have an aspect ratio of 1:1.5 The program's cropping tool keeps the aspect ratios accurate. I've had many pictures done by them and other online services using this program to crop photos taken. None have ever come back with the white borders you mentioned. Again, I hope this helps!
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Allen Jackson |
Adobe PhotoShop Elements has a "constrain" feature that works very well but is very poorly documented. With the crop tool selected you'll see options for the width and height in the toolbar -- these are RATIOS, not actual width and height. Set your target size, say 4 x 6, and then draw your crop box, and hit "Commit". Presto. Good luck...
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