Sorry Ed, but I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. I generally crop my photos to 4:5 ratio; it seems the bit of my brain that deals with photography likes to see in that ratio. This is helpful because when I send files out for printing I go for 8x10. Sometimes landscape shots I do leave alone at 2:3 ratio, so those get printed at 8x12. As both of these sizes are standard, I don't have any issues.
I never print at 4x6 because I find that's too small. 5x7 would be a better size, but then I'd have to recrop my photos, or crop with the printer's online software, or add white stripes/borders, or...at which point I abandon the whole thing. Does anybody know where/why the 5x7 size originated? In a nutshell, my philosophy is: If it's worth printing, it's worth printing at 8x10 or 8x12. Not much help to you, huh? Sorry! --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.EnticingTheLight.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2009/8/12 Ed Keeney <[email protected]>: > De-lurking for a question and/or opinion... > > For the most part I crop most of my shots as 4x6 for basic printing > for myself and family. Every now and then I take it up to 5x7 or even > 8x10. Now each of these has a different ratio so it's usually a > separate process for each shot (versus printing a 4x6 crop upsized to > 8x10). Am I making too much work out of something simple? > > Sometimes for the web (and PUG) I might crop at a different ratio. If > you do this and decide, "Hey, I want to print that" what do you do? > This question is more for those who don't print on their own printer, > but send it out. Is there a process you follow that will print > something that isn't a standard size? > > -- > Thanks! > Ed > http://picasaweb.google.com/ewkphoto/PESO?feat=directlink > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
