Help With Sizing This Image: Folks, I'm tearing out the rest of what hair I have left trying to get this image to print as an 8x10 without cropping. The image I'm sending has been...

Moose Loc: North Carolina

Folks, I'm tearing out the rest of what hair I have left trying to get this image to print as an 8x10 without cropping. The image I'm sending has been resized as an 8x10 or close to it, but when I send it to the printer the sides get cropped off, thus removing some key parts of the image that I would like kept. Can anyone out there help me, and if so, then tell me what I need to do so I can do this by myself next time. Thanks in advance.

Window Reflection

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

Crop less to allow for cutoff.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

Is the printer set to borderless printing? If not, a top and bottom margin would get clipped.

ioptfm Loc: Isle of Palms, SC

Try printing in Landscape

jazzplayer

Since the pic you posted is about 9.6"x10", you would surely need to either distort the proportions or crop something from the sides to force it to 8x10 - the math is clear: that extra 1.6" over 8" has to go somewhere... I'd probably go with the "squeeze" m'self:

charles brown Loc: Tennesse

My experience is when you ask printer to print an 8x10 of an image that is a different size ratio something gets cropped.

sfreund Loc: Indianapolis

Moose wrote:

Folks, I'm tearing out the rest of what hair I have left trying to get this image to print as an 8x10 without cropping. The image I'm sending has been resized as an 8x10 or close to it, but when I send it to the printer the sides get cropped off, thus removing some key parts of the image that I would like kept. Can anyone out there help me, and if so, then tell me what I need to do so I can do this by myself next time. Thanks in advance.

Not sure how you resized but what you think you got/did isn't accurate. Your file as showing in the post is 9.5x10 There is no special magic that can be applied to get that to print all of the file inside a dimension of 8x10. You can set the printing device to do what labs call 'fit' the file vs 'crop'. The 'fit' would keep dimensions and proportions of your image as it is fit into the 8x10 opening. You would have a square print (8x8 square) inside the rectangular 8x10 opening. You will have some extra white space on two sides, about 1 inch on each side. The 'crop' term means the square file when sent to a rectangle print paper will have the excess non proportional areas cropped or cut off.

Moose Loc: North Carolina

Thanks ST, but what you see if what I have to work with. I didn't crop anything, but when it was sent to the printers, it cropped the sides, which I think add to the overall image.

St3v3M wrote:

Crop less to allow for cutoff.

Moose Loc: North Carolina

Yes, no border, however, its the sides that are getting clippped.

Photographer Jim wrote:

Is the printer set to borderless printing? If not, a top and bottom margin would get clipped.

Moose Loc: North Carolina

Thanks for the response. Looks like I'm stuck with loosing the sides.

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Not sure how you resized but what you think you got/did ed or cut off.[/quote]

Moose Loc: North Carolina

I think I've got a lot to learn about sizing the images and to make sure my original image is large enough to allow cropping.

charles brown wrote:

My experience is when you ask printer to print an 8x10 of an image that is a different size ratio something gets cropped.

robert-photos Loc: Chicago

Moose wrote:

Folks, I'm tearing out the rest of what hair I have left trying to get this image to print as an 8x10 without cropping. The image I'm sending has been resized as an 8x10 or close to it, but when I send it to the printer the sides get cropped off, thus removing some key parts of the image that I would like kept. Can anyone out there help me, and if so, then tell me what I need to do so I can do this by myself next time. Thanks in advance.

As others have stated...you are sending a photo which is dimensioned 2361 pixels wide by 2460 pixels high (246 dpi)
[or 9.5976" wide x 10" high] to your printer and asking it to print an 8"x 10". It is doing the best it can by printing the 10 inch dimension and cropping the 9.5976" dimension to 8".

You now have choices:
1. Resize the photo to 8"x10" and not keep the aspect ratio the same as the original. It will get distorted slimmer and taller.
2. Add to the top and bottom of the photo by going back to your original and recropping to 8" x 10"
3. Add a border top and bottom ( ~.4166" each) or print so that there is a border top and bottom.

The choice is yours: distortion, recropping or border to get an 8"x10" edge to edge print.

I resized the photo for you below.

Resized 8x10

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

Moose wrote:

Thanks ST, but what you see if what I have to work with. I didn't crop anything, but when it was sent to the printers, it cropped the sides, which I think add to the overall image.

St3v3M wrote:

Crop less to allow for cutoff.

You could always print it at 8x10 leaving the top and bottom with a little white space thereby keeping the original size of the photo.

Moose Loc: North Carolina

Thanks Robert, I'll give those options a try. The image I sent you has been cropped to the size you indicated, so I'll go back to the original and see what I can do with that. I had to distort the original to get the window to look straight instead of cockeyed. Didn't look right for matting. I'll try again with the tips everyone has provided.

As others have stated...you are sending a photo which is dimensioned 2361 pixels wide by 2460 pixels high (246 dpi)
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Moose Loc: North Carolina

Thanks ST, I'll be trying Roberts options and if that doesn't work I'll see what adding some space will do.

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You could always print it at 8x10 leaving the top and bottom with a little white space thereby keeping the original size of the photo.[/quote]