>I am designing a cover for a publication, the size of which is 29.7cm long by 21.0cm wide, landscape.
>I need to fit forty images onto the one page. The proportions of the images are the same as the cover 21/29.7 = 0.7070 ie the height is 71% of the length. >I am trying to work out what size each image has to be to fit the forty on the page. Simon, I had a similar problem not so long ago, when a client wanted a 'story board' of 40 wedding pics on a 20x16". My right brain solution was to make a grid of 6 Guides vertically and horizontally, making total of spaces =36, knowing that I'd have four extra pics to fit in 'as best' somewhere. The images were both portrait and landscape, with the longest side equal in each, making the situation more interesting. That is, the landscape images, group photos, were, if fitted into the portrait grid I now had, far too small with loads of white background above and below. It looked horrid! What I then did was to use the horizontal Guides, and ignored the vertical ones, scaling every image to fit height-wise. They didnt fit, as any left brain would tell you... But it got me a running order for the images. And an opportunity to find logical places for the loads of pics that I had left over at that stage. I then looked at it as a one picture in its own right and made some individual pics bigger (eg bride standing on a staircase) and some smaller. Some pics got a little stroke line around them, mainly to hide the fact that my sizing was a few pixels out. The client was delighted. So, what I am trying to say is that maybe your client wants a pleasing end result, not an exact mathematical solution? HTH Liisa =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
