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Sizing photos

  • 11-01-2008 6:38pm
    #1
    lafors
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭


    Right here's a pretty simple one I hope, and please don't laugh :o
    I recently got photo's of my brothers wedding printed, (they were taken with my D40 and kit lens). Now I have previously only ever had point and shoot or disposable film cameras..ughhh ;) , so when I got photos printed, I'd never crop or post-process, they'd come out as they were taken.

    But this time with the D40 photos, I did edit them, but I had a problem when I printed them out to give to him (6x4's only, he'll get proper ones off their photographer), basically bits were cut out of the photo's, heads, arms, etc.

    Now I'm guessing this is because the ratio needs to be the same as a 6x4, but is there any easy way to do this without having to calculate it myself each time I want to adjust a photo?? btw if its any help, I use a free program called paint.net, dunno if its any good, but its free.


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  • #2
    AnCatDubh
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    Hmnnnn..... maybe not resizing them although that might give you the desired effect but you could try a crop - i assume it is available in photo.net (if not and you're interested in using free software try 'the gimp' which takes a bit of learning but is darn good, or google's picassa - again free, basic but darn handy). Go Picassa if you want to do something quick n easy.

    Retaining all your image and resizing will most likely lead you to 'squishing' or 'stretching' the images whilst a crop will cut out some of image. However using a crop feature will generally show you what it is going to cut before you do it.

    You can generally crop to an aspect ratio and for instance in picassa you can say i want a picture to suit 6x4 and draw/stretch the crop lines while google does the work of calculating on the fly what the aspect ratio is. You can also select 8x10 etc... Again, you may lose some of your image depending on the original camera image ratio and the desired printed photograph ratio but the crop process is basically adjusting the the image controlling what gets removed, and maintaining the aspect ratio so that you don't get Aunt Maud's and uncle Bill's head stretched to wide screen.

    Oh yeah one last thing - if using picassa, it picks up the metric or imperial measurement from your system settings (windows control panel) - so if you don't see 6x4 as an option, it metric equivalent is probably being displayed.

    http://picasa.google.ie/

    http://www.gimp.org/

    Anyway - hope that helps, that's my pwo'pence on it.


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