Civility,

If you really "have never heard of any of this", you need to take it one step at a time.

It's not that complicated. On the other hand, it is pretty basic, not just for someone familiar with photography but for anyone with a modest knowledge of arithmetic and a willingness to think about it for a second.

Before you start putting several images on a single sheet of paper, try printing a single 4x5 image of your 6312 pixel by x 9488 pixel image. Open your image in Photoshop; get the Rectangular Marquee tool (M) and make sure the tool's Style is set to "Fixed Aspect Ratio" in the Options bar (not to "Normal", and not "Fixed Size"). Set it to 4 x 5 (just 4 x 5, not inches or pixels, just the ratio).

Now use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to crop your picture to that precise 4x5 aspect ratio. No need to calculate anything, the tool will automatically expand in a 4x5 ratio as you drag across your image, no matter what.

Once you have a selection of your image you like, let go of the tool and go to your Image menu and select Crop. The cropped image is now ready; hit Command D to deselect the marching ants. Now go to the File menu again and go to Image Size > Document Size. Once there, make sure the Resample image is NOT checked and set the Width to 4 inches and the Height to 5 inches. Click on OK.

You now have an image that is exactly 4x5 inches; its resolution will have been automatically determined by the process you went through.

Now you can print a proper 4x5 image, and when you cropped you realized what fits and what doesn't fit into a frame of these proportions.

You shouldn't have to go college or even high school to grasp this. Think what happens when someone hands you a 4x6 photo and you have to put it inside a 4x5 frame you buy at the drugstore. You're just going to have to crop it; i. e. you need to cut it down to size.

If you still have trouble understanding this, you need to do a lot of reading on photography and on Photoshop before you can work in the program or in the field.

Dale_F._Mead

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