> From: Larry Colen > > > If you just upload a photo costco will crop it so that it fills the > frame rather than prints all of the photo. > The way I found to prevent that is to use the print menu and set up > the page configuration for the right sized paper and let lightroom add > the requisite borders. > I always put "please don't crop or zoom" in the comments field. That works at my local Costco. But, as I said in an earlier post, I've got to know the guys in the photo department and they know what I want. I don't know how approachable yours would be, but it's worth chatting them up.
If I want the image to be a specific size I put a border on it, using Canvas Size in Photoshop - I put a bit of white space around it and add a coloured border to the final size. That way they have to print it just as you send it to them - but of course it only works with larger prints. There's an example here (I've also put a thin line round the image picking out the blue from the dress): http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/20080627IMGP9830-Edit.jpg This is a cut down version for demo purposes - the original was >4Mb and was printed on 18"x12". For mounting I cut a matte to show white space the same width as the distance of the thin line from the image. There's a Lightroom plugin called Mogrify which can add borders amongst lots of other things - worth a look: http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lr2mogrify.php > > Lightroom print module will write the jpeg files to a directory and > name all of the files based on that directory. Unfortunately, the > original filename is lost, so even though costco will print the > filename on the back, it does little good for tracking down the > original raw file. Unfortunately lightroom export print won't add the > borders. I think that you can go and wrestle with the cropping on the > costco site if you export the files. In Lightroom Export in "File Naming" you can select "filename" - it saves the jpeg with the original filename. Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
