Jim Walczak
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Sep 9, 2004
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- Lorain, Ohio
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Hi All,
I'm back with my next round of questions that have been frustrating me...this time in regards to aspect ratios for printing digital photo's. Now I have been looking around on the web all morning and the more info I find, the more my head hurts! LOL!
Now let me first say, I'm using an Olympus C-4000 and it does have the 3:2 aspect ratio option (35mm equiv) and this is what I've been using to shoot my pics. With a little bit of effort, I've been able to get some decent 4x6 prints done (with plain white borders! Yea!) and their coming out pretty well...I'm having a bit of a problem with the calibration of their equipment being different from mine, but I think I found a good work around. Anyways...I'm not ready to start printing out some larger size photo's. There is a local nature center in my area that want's to do a gallery of my work in February (Big YEA!!!) and I'm going to need to print out several 8x10's to be matted and framed and a few even larger...now here's the problem. The aspect ratio of an 8x10 is different from that of both 4x6's and even 6x8's...who came up with this freakin stuff????? By my math, to keep the 3:2 aspect ratio, a picture "should" be 8x12 and not 8x10, but I'm not sure I've ever seen any place that prints 8x12's.
Ok...I guess what I'm asking here is; does anyone know of an easy way to do aspect ratio conversion in, say PhotoShop? I'm certainly not new to Photoshop or image editing, but I seem to be having problems with this...when I go to do crops and such, in order to get the pics to the correct print size, I always seem to inadvertantly end up doing a little bit of a manual resize on the pics which will push the picture one way or the other slightly out of it's original size/dimension...granted this isn't usually a big problem, but I would like to keep my images as close to original (barring contrast, color, saturation corrections, etc). Can someone either share with me how they work around this or point me in the direction of an "easy to understand" website or something in reference to dealing with this issue?
Again, these photos are going to be displayed in my first gallery showing (and will also be for sale!), so simply doing them on an inkjet...even a decent one, is not going to cut it...I -have- to have these done as prints. Also I need to avoid having these done through places "online" such as SnapFish or something as I will need to review the photo's -before- I pay for them.
As always I'm grateful for your collective wisdom and experience...thanks!
Bright Blessings & Gentle Breezes,
Jim
I'm back with my next round of questions that have been frustrating me...this time in regards to aspect ratios for printing digital photo's. Now I have been looking around on the web all morning and the more info I find, the more my head hurts! LOL!
Now let me first say, I'm using an Olympus C-4000 and it does have the 3:2 aspect ratio option (35mm equiv) and this is what I've been using to shoot my pics. With a little bit of effort, I've been able to get some decent 4x6 prints done (with plain white borders! Yea!) and their coming out pretty well...I'm having a bit of a problem with the calibration of their equipment being different from mine, but I think I found a good work around. Anyways...I'm not ready to start printing out some larger size photo's. There is a local nature center in my area that want's to do a gallery of my work in February (Big YEA!!!) and I'm going to need to print out several 8x10's to be matted and framed and a few even larger...now here's the problem. The aspect ratio of an 8x10 is different from that of both 4x6's and even 6x8's...who came up with this freakin stuff????? By my math, to keep the 3:2 aspect ratio, a picture "should" be 8x12 and not 8x10, but I'm not sure I've ever seen any place that prints 8x12's.
Ok...I guess what I'm asking here is; does anyone know of an easy way to do aspect ratio conversion in, say PhotoShop? I'm certainly not new to Photoshop or image editing, but I seem to be having problems with this...when I go to do crops and such, in order to get the pics to the correct print size, I always seem to inadvertantly end up doing a little bit of a manual resize on the pics which will push the picture one way or the other slightly out of it's original size/dimension...granted this isn't usually a big problem, but I would like to keep my images as close to original (barring contrast, color, saturation corrections, etc). Can someone either share with me how they work around this or point me in the direction of an "easy to understand" website or something in reference to dealing with this issue?
Again, these photos are going to be displayed in my first gallery showing (and will also be for sale!), so simply doing them on an inkjet...even a decent one, is not going to cut it...I -have- to have these done as prints. Also I need to avoid having these done through places "online" such as SnapFish or something as I will need to review the photo's -before- I pay for them.
As always I'm grateful for your collective wisdom and experience...thanks!
Bright Blessings & Gentle Breezes,
Jim