How can I print an 8x10 and not cut the sides off? (Page 2): Hello Sylvia, Sorry this might be to late for your needs. But maybe helpful in the future. I have had this problem also...

Mick 53 Loc: Minneapolis

Hello Sylvia,
Sorry this might be to late for your needs. But maybe helpful in the future. I have had this problem also with trying to print 8X10 on my Epson XP-850. I put the photo on a flash drive took it to National Camera Exchange in Mpls. Mn. They we able to print the 8X10 with no crop. Find a good photo shop in your area that can do this for you. Also looking at the Canon 70d for a back up xmas present for my self. Do you like yours?

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

Mick 53 wrote:

Hello Sylvia,
Sorry this might be to late for your needs. But maybe helpful in the future. I have had this problem also with trying to print 8X10 on my Epson XP-850. I put the photo on a flash drive took it to National Camera Exchange in Mpls. Mn. They we able to print the 8X10 with no crop. Find a good photo shop in your area that can do this for you. Also looking at the Canon 70d for a back up xmas present for my self. Do you like yours?

If they printed it 8x10 without cropping, what did they compress and how did it not effect the picture?

One's other choice is to shoot the shot with a buffer knowing that you will need to crop it.

OviedoPhotos

I crop the jpg to the size I will print. In some cases where I will print 3 ratios of the same photo, then I have 3 files saved.

I tried other ways and this gives me the best result.

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

OviedoPhotos wrote:

I crop the jpg to the size I will print. In some cases where I will print 3 ratios of the same photo, then I have 3 files saved.

I tried other ways and this gives me the best result.

That is fine if you have excess room to crop. It gets hairy when you need every inch an thus have to go to larger picture

sylvrn Loc: Midsouth

Hi Mick, Thanks for the info. I don't know of a photo shop in Memphis (although there may be one. I know of a couple camera stores, but Best Buy & other large retailers have done a number on photo stores). I will try to find one -- that would help a lot.

I really enjoy my 70D. It has a lot of bells & whistles. I got it in May 2014 so am still learning. I have used the Wi-Fi feature quite a bit....probably my favorite feature on the camera!

Sylvia

Mick 53 wrote:

Hello Sylvia,
Sorry this might be to late for your needs. But maybe helpful in the future. I have had this problem also with trying to print 8X10 on my Epson XP-850. I put the photo on a flash drive took it to National Camera Exchange in Mpls. Mn. They we able to print the 8X10 with no crop. Find a good photo shop in your area that can do this for you. Also looking at the Canon 70d for a back up xmas present for my self. Do you like yours?

sylvrn Loc: Midsouth

Thanks. I thought I had left enough room on the edges, but turned out I didn't. Since I have about 150 people in the picture, it is difficult to get everyone back in uniform to take another picture. I tried to get as close as possible, but ended up too close, so am trying to fix post processing. My local Sam's does not print 8x12, I asked. That would have been the easy fix. :)

Sylvia

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sylvrn Loc: Midsouth

Thank you Tommy.
I tried to upload JPEG (my 2nd time to try--1st time said file was too large). I appreciate your help.

Sylvia

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TheeGambler Loc: The green pastures of Northeast Texas

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Good ideas, Pullum. Sometimes I go to canvas and but a border around the photo to compensate when changing the size makes too much of a difference. Choose your color of border and width. Usually, you can make it very compatible with the colors in the photo and the border isn't noticed that much. Sometimes, I do this when there is no problem and eliminate the need for putting a mat on the photo.. I like different sized borders and will make the size different widths on purpose..depending on the photo.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Several companies make cropping guide screens that fit into various cameras' viewfinders. Viewfindermasks.com is one.

These masks or cropping guides allow in-viewfinder composition, so you get what you want on the paper format you use. I used them extensively when I worked in the school portrait industry, where "machine printing" is the norm.

8x10 has a .8 aspect ratio. 4x6 has a .667 aspect ratio. You can print a 6.667 inch by 10 inch image on 8x10 paper, but many people don't like the paper waste. I like it for titling, myself, so I'll often compose in Photoshop and print to 8x10 with a title under the original image.

Benttree Loc: GA.

Sylvia,
If you have Adobe photo-editing program you can make that image any size you do like . Supposing the image has proper PSI for the size.
-As well, I can print to you your photo for any size with a mat-board or without.
On hi quality Ultra Premium " Epson and/or Red River papers".
Papers finish available on my printing, Luster, Hi Gloss,Aurora Art Natural and Metallic.
Print colors and paper quality are a excellent.

WAL

Photography has been around for more than 150 years and this problem still lingers. In Europe they have metric sizes to add another dimension to it all.
It is an odd art form that lets the size and shape of manufactured paper determine the aspect and size of the finished product.
You could consider 5x7 the photo may fit better and save the work of cropping the photos.
I have had good luck with Costco and Sams with these things. They may be able to set there equipment to do the cropping for you. I have found some clever people at both stores.

kubota king Loc: NW , Pa.

Here are the photos in 8 by 10 print size . I gave you one with the lighting just like you posted it , and one with adjustments to shadows and highlights , and over lighting to choose from . I also cleaned up a lot of spots through out the photo . I hope you don't mind that I used the steps to fill in the area to allow a print size of 8 by 10 as I said I would use the stuff in the photo to fill in the area I needed to . I figured you didn't want any more roof framing added . If there is something you want changed , and I can do it , let me know . Tommy

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the f/stops here Loc: New Mexico

sylvrn wrote:

I am wanting to print an 8x10 from a Canon 70D. 4x6 and 5x7 sizes do not cut the sides off, but 8x10 does. I don't care if there is blank space top & bottom, I just don't need the sides cut off. Is it possible to print an 8x10? (It really needs an 8x12, but Sam's, Walgreens, etc. do not carry those sizes.). Thank you, hoggers, for your input.

Sylvia

Syl, I am faced with this problem often. The answer (I'm sure one of many) is to add canvas size to equal 8X10. For example, if you cropped your image to 6 X 9 (resized it), DSLR & 35mm proportion, and added 1/2 inch canvas on each end and 1 inch canvas to the top & bottom, you would then get an 8X10 inch print with a 6X9 inch image that did not require and cropping. Example follows. Best, J. Goffe

6X9 image on 8X10 paper

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JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Mick 53 wrote:

Hello Sylvia,
Sorry this might be to late for your needs. But maybe helpful in the future. I have had this problem also with trying to print 8X10 on my Epson XP-850. I put the photo on a flash drive took it to National Camera Exchange in Mpls. Mn. They we able to print the 8X10 with no crop. Find a good photo shop in your area that can do this for you. Also looking at the Canon 70d for a back up xmas present for my self. Do you like yours?

Sylvia,
I' late with this answer so if it is a duplicate of something that has already been posted, I apologize.

It is certainly "possible" to print the 8 x 10 size, but the problem may be with the photo file you are trying to print. If, for example, the original photo was in Landscape mode and you crop it to 8 x 10 as a portrait there may not be enough pixels to allow the height. My solution is to crop it to a larger size, perhaps 11 x 14, then when you go to print it tell the printer to print as an 8 x 10, but you have to leave some extra sacrificial room around the sides of the 11x 14 to give up. It's easy to do when you are printing yourself, but I don't know if the mass market stores can, or will, do it and compose the picture properly. A local photo shop can do it but probably at a somewhat higher cost. If you are a member of a Camera Club, one of the other members could do it.

TheDman Loc: USA

This question always reminds me of these toys:

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You couldn't fit the star shape in the square hole, could you? So why do you think you can make an 8x10 out of an 8x12 without cutting something off?