i'm afraid i really messed up: i recently yook some family pictures for my pastor & his family, some of which there won't be any other opportunity for & i'm afraid i didn't allow...

pooterpa76 Loc: Lebanon, Pa.

i recently yook some family pictures for my pastor & his family, some of which there won't be any other opportunity for & i'm afraid i didn't allow enough space above their heads & that when enlarged, it will cut off the top of their heads. i discovered my mistake when i sent off one of my own pics, similarly composed, & it came back minus the top of the head. i feel so bad but don't know what to do. i don't have a printer or i'd check it out myself.

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

pooterpa76 wrote:

i recently yook some family pictures for my pastor & his family, some of which there won't be any other opportunity for & i'm afraid i didn't allow enough space above their heads & that when enlarged, it will cut off the top of their heads. i discovered my mistake when i sent off one of my own pics, similarly composed, & it came back minus the top of the head. i feel so bad but don't know what to do. i don't have a printer or i'd check it out myself.

The solution is quite simple.
Get it printed somewhere that they will not crop any off the photo. Any simple printer can do it these days. Mine does and its only a cheap Canon bubblejet.

I would also suggest taking yours back and getting them reprinted properly for free.

DavidT Loc: Maryland

You also might ask to have the landscape-oriented picture cropped in portrait mode. It will be enlarged and retain the full head.

pooterpa76 Loc: Lebanon, Pa.

i didn't realize that they had that option. it was mpix that did it. i just thought that since i didn't leave much space above the head that it was automatically lost in enlarging. thank you.

lighthouse wrote:

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pooterpa76 Loc: Lebanon, Pa.

thank you. i feared there was no hope for salvage.

DavidT wrote:

You also might ask to have the landscape-oriented picture cropped in portrait mode. It will be enlarged and retain the full head.

bobmartin

The biggest cause of unwanted cropping of commercial images is that the aspect ratio of the image does not tally with aspect ration of print you want.

Mhardy53 Loc: Bobtown, PA

When shooting portraits of a single person, "head shots" you should shoot in the vertical instead of horizontal....Also allow enough room around the subject for a good crop.

cjeisch

Easily fixed with Photoshop Elements. Open a blank file on your screen and then open the file with the person on it and place them side by side. Use the selection tool to isolate the person and then use the move tool to drag the image over to the blank file. You can then adjust it's size and orientation. You can also paint in the background color. Sorry if this sounds complicated but you can work miracles with Photoshop.

pooterpa76 Loc: Lebanon, Pa.

thank you

Mhardy53 wrote:

When shooting portraits of a single person, "head shots" you should shoot in the vertical instead of horizontal....Also allow enough room around the subject for a good crop.

pooterpa76 Loc: Lebanon, Pa.

thank you very much

cjeisch wrote:

Easily fixed with Photoshop Elements. Open a blank file on your screen and then open the file with the person on it and place them side by side. Use the selection tool to isolate the person and then use the move tool to drag the image over to the blank file. You can then adjust it's size and orientation. You can also paint in the background color. Sorry if this sounds complicated but you can work miracles with Photoshop.

CAM1017 Loc: Chiloquin, Oregon

pooterpa76 wrote:

i recently yook some family pictures for my pastor & his family, some of which there won't be any other opportunity for & i'm afraid i didn't allow enough space above their heads & that when enlarged, it will cut off the top of their heads. i discovered my mistake when i sent off one of my own pics, similarly composed, & it came back minus the top of the head. i feel so bad but don't know what to do. i don't have a printer or i'd check it out myself.

If you have a program that does PP, crop it to the proportion of the final print size you are going to have made and it should come out right.

pooterpa76 Loc: Lebanon, Pa.

thank you

CAM1017 wrote:

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lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

I see nothing wrong with the portrait taken in landscape mode.
The composition is good with how the shoulder lines work in the image.
It would be pretty boring if we only took headshots in portrait framing.

Foggy Loc: Near Oxford Uk

Using the free transform tool in photoshop you can grow the background behind the subject. I've used this technique and it works very well. there are plenty of tutorials if you google expand canvas in photoshop.

Boone Loc: Groundhog Town USA

I might be wrong, but what about: Making a new blank file that is say 8x10, open the pic you want, drag the pic on to the new file, then transform the pic to a 5x7. Resize the entire image to any given size??