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It’s OK, this isn’t another of the "how do I do this" threads … I do know how to use elements to get images from my digicam to the correct ratio and ppi for printing at a minilab. But I’m finding it a very frustrating exercise, composition wise. My old Kodak produces exact 6×4 images at 300 ppi straight out of the camera. But the Canon G3 is much squarer and I didn’t realise just how much I actually do compose my pictures to this ratio in-camera until I tried cropping them to the narrower format – most of my images just don’t work at all, which really surprised me. I expected that the cropping woud be a farily straightforward procedure. But it ain’t.
I guess for most images I’m just going to have to request that the pictures get printed with a white band down the sides rather than cropped (I know that the processor I am using can do this). Because I’ve mainly printed out the images on my own printer before, I’ve never really considered standard ratios, just cropped to get them to look best. Now what am I to do? Do I mentally adjust my compostion in camera to fit to the 6×4 ratio just in case I want to print commercially (it gives me a headache just thinking about trying to do that!)?. I don’t print that many images out, but I do want to have some tf the more significant family shots commercially printed for archival purposes. What do you folks do?
Susan S
I guess for most images I’m just going to have to request that the pictures get printed with a white band down the sides rather than cropped (I know that the processor I am using can do this). Because I’ve mainly printed out the images on my own printer before, I’ve never really considered standard ratios, just cropped to get them to look best. Now what am I to do? Do I mentally adjust my compostion in camera to fit to the 6×4 ratio just in case I want to print commercially (it gives me a headache just thinking about trying to do that!)?. I don’t print that many images out, but I do want to have some tf the more significant family shots commercially printed for archival purposes. What do you folks do?
Susan S
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