Resizing Digital Photos

[brittany_r._dunks]

I have recently battled with my prints being cropped when I enlarge them.

Photo.net users have helped me realize the reason why they're being cropped is

due to the fact that the dimensions of the digital images in the camera do not

match up to those of 5x7's and 8x10's etc.

 

My question now is:

How do I crop the images to be able to print exactly to these sizes? Do I just

need to have the right dimensions that are proportionate to the desired print

sizes?

Do i have to do this in photoshop, save them and then upload to whatever web

service? Are there other (free) programs that I can use?

 

hopefully this makes some sense!

thanks

[andy_heffernan1]

All you have to do is chop off the extra part of the image to get the proportions right. You probably want to save this to a new file and not destroy your original. You can do this in Photoshop, but I believe the free (and popular) program Irfanview lets you crop. I'm sure there are many more free programs out there to do basic image manipulation like this. Then give the printing service the cropped file instead of the original, and you're good to go.

[ambers-photos]

If you use Photoshop use resize photo and when you change the pixel size your canvas size will change don?t change the canvas size it will crop out something you might want to keep, also you cant always get exactly 8x10 I just did one and the size was 8x10.24 but it will keep 95% of your photo in the frame.

 

Amber