Youngstu
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Ok, to start off I'd just like to say thanks to this forum in general. I knew nothing recently regarding Aspect Ratios but have been reading up on here and have an idea now although I still have some queries.
I've been taking digital photographs now, mostly while travelling for almost 10 years. Not until now have I decided to get to know what I am actually doing.
Sadly my style of photography was point, shoot, dump it onto the PC and forget about it. I am now starting the long task of trying to arrange, back up and print off the photographs to create albums.
I'm no professional and this would show if anyone on here was to have a look at the photographs although as I look back through them I do have a lot of shots which I think are good and they do mean a lot to me.
The cameras across this time have been Canon Powershot A75 (compact), Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9 (compact) and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 (Micro4/3). After looking at the properties of my photographs and now understanding a little, I know that they have all been taken in 4:3 Aspect Ratio. Here are my queries:-
1. I understand that with all my photos taken in 4:3 the most obvious thing to do would be to print to 6 x 4.5 as a general photo album size as printing to 6 x 4 I would lose some of the image. Would I be better to do this or should I crop some how to convert to 3:2 for 6 x 4 prints. The only thing putting me off printing to 6 x 4.5 is that it seems quite impossible to find any good albums ( Black, dark brown, tan or navy - leather or leather effect). I can't understand this as I thought that 6 x 4.5 printig would be popular these days, maybe I'm wrong.
2. Cropping - OK so I have a 4:3 image - 2816 x 2112. It's not always ideal just to print this whole image as 6 x 4.5. Example, maybe I need to straighten the image a little or crop even a small amount from one edge. This then alters the pixel size of the image and it is now smaller than 2816 x 2112. What will happen now when I try to print this image as 6 x 4.5? Will I end up with white bars on the print?
I don't have any real software like Adobe yet, with something like this, is there away to carry out straightening or slight cropping and still retain my 4:3 ratio?
I remember years back I did have a small Epson Picturemate printer and I played around with that printing off some of my own 6 x 4 photos. I found some of these recently and understand now why some of them have the bars at the ends of the photos. The quality of those prints has held up really well.
Any help would be great thanks again.
P.S If anyone on here does print to 6 x 4 or 6 x 4.5 for album purposes, do you prefer to have the full image or do you leave a small white border around the photo? Some of the images I found from the old Epson had a small, even, white border around the photo and look really good (the small amount that I printed out correctly....haha)
I've been taking digital photographs now, mostly while travelling for almost 10 years. Not until now have I decided to get to know what I am actually doing.
Sadly my style of photography was point, shoot, dump it onto the PC and forget about it. I am now starting the long task of trying to arrange, back up and print off the photographs to create albums.
I'm no professional and this would show if anyone on here was to have a look at the photographs although as I look back through them I do have a lot of shots which I think are good and they do mean a lot to me.
The cameras across this time have been Canon Powershot A75 (compact), Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9 (compact) and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 (Micro4/3). After looking at the properties of my photographs and now understanding a little, I know that they have all been taken in 4:3 Aspect Ratio. Here are my queries:-
1. I understand that with all my photos taken in 4:3 the most obvious thing to do would be to print to 6 x 4.5 as a general photo album size as printing to 6 x 4 I would lose some of the image. Would I be better to do this or should I crop some how to convert to 3:2 for 6 x 4 prints. The only thing putting me off printing to 6 x 4.5 is that it seems quite impossible to find any good albums ( Black, dark brown, tan or navy - leather or leather effect). I can't understand this as I thought that 6 x 4.5 printig would be popular these days, maybe I'm wrong.
2. Cropping - OK so I have a 4:3 image - 2816 x 2112. It's not always ideal just to print this whole image as 6 x 4.5. Example, maybe I need to straighten the image a little or crop even a small amount from one edge. This then alters the pixel size of the image and it is now smaller than 2816 x 2112. What will happen now when I try to print this image as 6 x 4.5? Will I end up with white bars on the print?
I don't have any real software like Adobe yet, with something like this, is there away to carry out straightening or slight cropping and still retain my 4:3 ratio?
I remember years back I did have a small Epson Picturemate printer and I played around with that printing off some of my own 6 x 4 photos. I found some of these recently and understand now why some of them have the bars at the ends of the photos. The quality of those prints has held up really well.
Any help would be great thanks again.
P.S If anyone on here does print to 6 x 4 or 6 x 4.5 for album purposes, do you prefer to have the full image or do you leave a small white border around the photo? Some of the images I found from the old Epson had a small, even, white border around the photo and look really good (the small amount that I printed out correctly....haha)