Print sizing help

[Jemmy]

I am going to give my friend the pics from yesterdays party on a disc so she can print them off. So I need to re size them for printing or just download them onto the disk and they will print off fine at the lab?

I think she was just going to take the disc to asda.

In the past ive had probs downloading and printing off my pics as they have been too large for a 6x4 size photo. I am not sure what sizes she wants to do but I know she wants a couple blown up large.

[lostmysnorkel]

I usually just burn the images as is.

The lab should be able to sort out the sizing and stuff. Assuming your camera is a 3:2 ratio, then 6x4, 9x6, 12x8,15x10 are the 'native' print sizes.

[MickT]

I usually just burn the images as is.

The lab should be able to sort out the sizing and stuff. Assuming your camera is a 3:2 ratio, then 6x4, 9x6, 12x8,15x10 are the 'native' print sizes.

Yup...I do the same....

[george.monaghan]

Hi,
If you are using an online printers or want to know exactly what will be visible on the final print the "crop" you images to size in PS> In the crop tool specify the size - 12 x 16 etc.

From that you will get exactly what will be printed.

Other than that - let the labs do the work for you.

[Jemmy]

Thanks very much, I shall just burn them as they are then.

[Jemmy]

My friend took them to Asda, they sized them to 6x4 easily enough and printed fine but when they did her 10x8 prints they had fingers chopped off so they told her to blow them up she would have to go for the next size up 12x something.

They said if she wanted the 10x8 they would have to resize it and have a white margin which she doesn't want.

Any ideas on how to avoid this in future? I had the same with Truprint, i sent the files and all came back chopped.

[rpthorne]

I think the answer to this lies in what Mick and snorkel wrote above - the print sizes need to be kept in a 3:2 ratio, and 10x8 is 5:4 (I think!) I had exactly the same problem as this at Jessops.

[george.monaghan]

Hi,

See answer given above. Briefly just crop them to the printed size you wish to output them to the printers.

[Jemmy]

I select the image then go to crop but when I change the sizing it makes no difference when I go to print my images they are still too big so the lab always shrink them to size and I get a white margin around the images. This happens esp when printing in 10x8 size.

Where am I going wrong? how do I know if my camera is a 3:2 ratio? sorry to sound thick.

Thanks for all you're help.

[canonman]

I select the image then go to crop but when I change the sizing it makes no difference when I go to print my images they are still too big so the lab always shrink them to size and I get a white margin around the images. This happens esp when printing in 10x8 size.

Where am I going wrong? how do I know if my camera is a 3:2 ratio? sorry to sound thick.

Thanks for all you're help.

If you are re-sizing in Photoshop, it is important first to know exactly what size you want the finished print to be. This doesn't need to correspond to the format of the image you are using, but if it is different, you will need to decide which part of the image to sacrifice when you crop.

Work like this in Photoshop. Remember to use a duplicate so that the original stays as was.

1. Open the selected image in PS
2. Select the crop tool, then enter the width and heights (remember to use cm or mm after the number you enter) of the final print size you are after.
3. When you drag the crop tool, it will only go to the bounds of the dimensions you entered, you can now move the entire frame deciding which part to sacrifice.
4. When happy, perform the crop.
5. Now double check the new image size by going to..."image"...."image size". The new window will show the dimensions and resolution. You need to alter the resolution to an appropriate one for the print size you are making.
6. Then save the image perhaps with a pre-fix of its dimensions to avoid confusion.
7. When you take the image for printing, I am assuming you will be given the option of "bordered" or "borderless" ? Make sure they know which you want.

Hope this helps to some degree !?