printing photos??

[Dazzauk]

So i have a few real nice pics that i wanna print of and frame, but im struggling to get them to size how i want,

It seems if i go for the FIT option then width ways the picture is fine but there will be a border top and bottom,

so if i choose the TRIM option that basically zooms in on the picture so it does fill whatever size i choose but then it cuts out a chuck of the picture left and right..

Anyone shed any light on this?

 

[WV. Rootman]

Print size is just print size, it either fits or doesn't. Arrange it to get what Best Suits You. You could put some kind of a border across the top of your picture while it sets in the frame, it might make it look okay.

 

[BigAl07]

@Dazzauk what program are you using to edit/size your photos?

 

[shutter13]

Welcome to aspect ratio ;-) you can either crop to get the standard size you want, have some borders on either the top or the bottom, or print a custom size. Easiest would be to have borders and use a custom matt to cover the borders. That way you can use standard print sizes and standard frame sizes. It will just cost you a few bucks to have the custom Matt cut.

 

[Dazzauk]

@Dazzauk what program are you using to edit/size your photos?

BigAL, im using lightroom 5 buddy,

and keeping the size as they were when they came out of the phantom 4 camera,

im printing with the epson software which came with my printer, epson easy photo print

Daz

 

[Dazzauk]

Welcome to aspect ratio ;-) you can either crop to get the standard size you want, have some borders on either the top or the bottom, or print a custom size. Easiest would be to have borders and use a custom matt to cover the borders. That way you can use standard print sizes and standard frame sizes. It will just cost you a few bucks to have the custom Matt cut.

cant figure out how to print a custom size lol, dont want to crop any photos because the detail im loosing makes or breaks the photo as a whole, ive managed to get some custom photo frames, i think that might be the way forward, at least then i get all my photo printed.. Seems silly though that i cant make the full picture print the full page, but i guess like you said its aspect ratio..

Daz

 

[Dazzauk]

Is there a size that i can print at which will incorporate the entire image?

 

[With The Birds]

You have two options- crop your image to the aspect ratio of the print media or print with borders.

 

[Dazzauk]

You have two options- crop your image to the aspect ratio of the print media or print with borders.

When I go to crop media to say for example a 4x6 peice of photo paper, is it normal that I still loose some of the image?

I can’t seem to find a way to downscale the entire image to a certain size for example 4x6

And I’m terms of borders are these physical ones inside the frame?

Thanks

Daz

 

[shutter13]

What aspect ratio are you shooting in?

 

[Dazzauk]

What aspect ratio are you shooting in?

I’m not sure 100% I don’t think I’ve changed it from factory. Is it 4:3?

 

[shutter13]

12x18 is about as standard as you can get with 4:3 ratio.

 

[Dazzauk]

12x18 is about as standard as you can get with 4:3 ratio.

I’m not even sure I’ve ever played with the phantoms aspect ratios.

What are the options here, and what is the best one.

Or advantages / disadvantages?

Thabks

Daz

 

[shutter13]

You need to learn to crop. 4:3 gives the full resolution, so the most to work with. Frame your photos a bit wide to allow for cropping different sizes.

 

[WV. Rootman]

If you take pictures by using the rule of thirds you’ll not have these problems.

Rule of thirds - Wikipedia

 

[Dazzauk]

You need to learn to crop. 4:3 gives the full resolution, so the most to work with. Frame your photos a bit wide to allow for cropping different sizes.

And the 16:9 is not full resolution?

Is one shorter than the other or wider?

 

[shutter13]

16:9 is just a cropped version of the full 4:3 image.

 

[Dazzauk]

Thabks buddy

 

[deltamike]

Try down loading Gimp. You can resize on that program after a bit of learning

 

[Dazzauk]

Ok because i figured my knowledge was rubbish of this aspect ratio thing, i decided to jump out of bed real quick (uk time lol) and take 2 pics in the same spot one in 4:3 and one in 16:9..

now i can see and understand that the 16:9 is a cropped 4:3...

The thing which threw me and the reason my setting was set to 16:9 since ive had the phantom is that 16:9 looks better on the computer and tv then 4:3 i dont know the reason for this? So someone im sure will teach me another lesson about this lol...

But because 4:3 is a fuller resolution photo then am i correct in saying its probably better to shoot all pictures in 4:3 and if you want to add them to a movie edit, or view them on tv or as i do use my photos for screen savers then thats when you crop them to 16:9...

And would i also be right in saying that 4:3 is much better if you want to print the photos off? Because it would seem you can get a standard size full print with out loosing lots of your image which is what was happening to me when trying to print...

Oh and one last thing, would i get better picture quality from my P4 shooting in 4:3? and if so how would cropping a 4:3 to 16:9 photo compare quality wise to actually shooting a 16:9

Daz