printing panoramic photos

jogdish

Hi,
Looking to print a panoramic photo I took with my drone, I have zero idea what aspect ratio would look nice and every site I look at just offers regular or large square prints.
My photo is

4528x1576 px, I am happy to crop to something more standard - just unsure how to print it.

Alanstrainor

Most harvey norman stores offer photo printing, and will do panoramas too. I've gotten a number printed up which came out great. You can even go onto their site and order prints online. You should at least be able to see what aspect ratios they offer.

This site might be a good way to see different aspect ratios:
https://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/

With a bit of cropping you can make your panorama fit any ultra wide aspect ratio, it all comes down to how much you want to keep in.

jogdish

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Most harvey norman stores offer photo printing, and will do panoramas too. I've gotten a number printed up which came out great. You can even go onto their site and order prints online. You should at least be able to see what aspect ratios they offer.

This site might be a good way to see different aspect ratios:
https://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/

With a bit of cropping you can make your panorama fit any ultra wide aspect ratio, it all comes down to how much you want to keep in.

Do they do that instore any waiting time?


I would just like to see online what would be missing from my picture given the selected size, something I cannot find.

Heebie

I had one printed for my parents but long ago. 5 feet by 1.5 feet. (10:3 aspect ratio) that was the full size of 3 36-megapixel images stitched together.

Yours sounds like about 3:1, (~9:3)
If you want to fit that into a standard print size, scale it slightly up to 10" put two copies of it into an 8x10" file, and have that printed at 8x10 then trim it into two copies.

Most places with Fuji equipment (and possible with other gear) should be able to do 10x12" if you want a tiny bit bigger.
A "standard" panoramic photo from APS film was 4x12", and some places may still offer those.
I'd suggest doing any cropping yourself before getting it printed.

Reati

jogdish wrote: »

Hi,
Looking to print a panoramic photo I took with my drone, I have zero idea what aspect ratio would look nice and every site I look at just offers regular or large square prints.
My photo is

4528x1576 px, I am happy to crop to something more standard - just unsure how to print it.

photobox.ie do panoramic prints.

20" x 8" 11,95€
21" x 12" 16,95€
35" x 20" 26,95€

jogdish

Hey,
Sorry to ask here again, so as a test this morning I tried the following:

Cropped my large panorama in GIMP to a size of 32 inch x 6 inch = ( 4 times 8x6 ), then I was going to lay them side by side and get a feel for the image quality.
I printed off the four photos without borders, but they were in portrait and missing parts of the edges, I tried again on the boots online but it always crops a piece to the sides or the top no matter portrait or landscape or what orientation I ask for.

Maybe this is not simple, but I want to print 4 images of equal size that I can lay side by side , what crop do I apply to the original image to get this?

lenscap

I own a lab that offers panorama printing in store and online. (shameless self promotion)

https://photofast.ie/cat/panoramic_prints

The prints are 3:1 aspect ratio and prices are:
6x18 inch €7.00
8x24 inch €10.00
12x36 inch €16.00

lenscap

jogdish wrote: »

Hey,
Sorry to ask here again, so as a test this morning I tried the following:

Cropped my large panorama in GIMP to a size of 32 inch x 6 inch = ( 4 times 8x6 ), then I was going to lay them side by side and get a feel for the image quality.
I printed off the four photos without borders, but they were in portrait and missing parts of the edges, I tried again on the boots online but it always crops a piece to the sides or the top no matter portrait or landscape or what orientation I ask for.

Maybe this is not simple, but I want to print 4 images of equal size that I can lay side by side , what crop do I apply to the original image to get this?

I hope I understand this correctly, you are printing 4 prints but want them to appear as though they are a panoramic print but in 4 sections. Am I right?

If so then I don't think you will achieve it with commercial prints as there is always a small bleed off the edges of the print to get a borderless print.
I think the best way would be to print the whole image as a panorama and then cut the print into sections to suit.

pixbyjohn

Steve at 360 dpi can do what you want printing wise
http://360-dpi.com/contact/