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[OM] Re: Size of digital prints, was: Cost of digital prints

Subject: [OM] Re: Size of digital prints, was: Cost of digital prints
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:09:26 -0700
Chuck Norcutt wrote:

>I'm assuming that the photos of interest were shot with a digicam having 
>a 3:4 aspect ratio.  I forgot to mention that you won't find  3" X 4" or 
>4" X 5.5" prints at your local Costco or drugstore.  At least I don't 
>think so.  If they're going to be other than custom printed you have to 
>consider what happens to the excess width or height that will be cropped 
>off once a decision is made for an actual stadard print size.  You can 
>allow the printer to center crop it or you can carefully crop each image 
>exactly the way you want it.  Doing 500 of them could be a bit tedious, 
>however.
>
One could flag or separate them into center, top, right, bottom and left 
groups, then use PS automation to do each batch.

It's really not so different than what autoprinters do to 35mm. They 
generally crop them quite a bit and the choice of cropping is outside 
the buyer's choice.

Moose


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