On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ed Keeney<[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
I have prepared a number of Lightroom presets aimed at producing print sizes with which I "print to file" when I need to send work to a print service. Some crop the image to fit the format, some format the image with a reveal so that I can show the original, full image as I have rendered it inside whatever page proportions the prints I'm ordering might have. This process allows me to convert to and embed a customized ICC profile as well for those print services which offer them. It's fast, efficient and easy to deal with this way. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
