Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-31 Thread wendy beard
Like Qimage? http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/ wendy On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > I wish LR had an option of mixing of several photos and several sizes > on one page easily (i.e. "drop and drag" type of interface, where you can > line-up and resize photos easily - wi

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Sorenson
Have a look at FotoFusion by LumaPix. It does exactly this. It comes in three versions. The Enhanced (mid-range) version will let you export/print to 13x19 @ 300dpi or 16x24 @ 240dpi. It doesn't color manage through software like Photoshop or Lightroom, but does allow color management throug

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Ed Keeney wrote: Hi Ed. I re size my photos for what i want the print for, no matter if they go on the web. I print 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10 with occasional 8x12 if the 8x10 crop leave out to much. Then when i go to the lab or send to Kodakgallery dot ca, i just have to

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-13 Thread Igor Roshchin
Godfrey, I would be very interested to hear about it! Standing by Ir Thu Aug 13 18:23:40 CDT 2009 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: There's a pretty cool and simple hack that allows you to do this with Lightroom 2. I'll dig it up tomorrow ... I'm running out the door right now. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-13 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
There's a pretty cool and simple hack that allows you to do this with Lightroom 2. I'll dig it up tomorrow ... I'm running out the door right now. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:20 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 8/13/2009 1:02:59 P.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, > s...@komkon.org writes: > I wish LR had

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-13 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/13/2009 1:02:59 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, s...@komkon.org writes: I wish LR had an option of mixing of several photos and several sizes on one page easily (i.e. "drop and drag" type of interface, where you can line-up and resize photos easily - with the mouse). Igor

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-13 Thread Igor Roshchin
I wish LR had an option of mixing of several photos and several sizes on one page easily (i.e. "drop and drag" type of interface, where you can line-up and resize photos easily - with the mouse). Igor Thu Aug 13 13:45:38 CDT 2009 Eactivist wrote: > In a message dated 8/13/2009 11:06:54 A.M.

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-13 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/13/2009 11:06:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, s...@komkon.org writes: When I am sending photos to a shop to print from them, I usually prepare the file by cropping to size that I am ordering. I don't want any surprises there. I just recently discovered that LR Print Module

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-13 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ed Keeney wrote: > For the most part I crop most of my shots as 4x6 for basic printing > for myself and family.  Every now and then I take it up to 5x7 or even > 8x10.  Now each of these has a different ratio so it's usually a > separate process for each shot (versu

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-13 Thread Igor Roshchin
When I am sending photos to a shop to print from them, I usually prepare the file by cropping to size that I am ordering. I don't want any surprises there. I just recently discovered that LR Print Module (at least in LR-2.4) can "print" to a JPEG. This may be useful in your case, since the Print

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread ann sanfedele
Doug _ I just wrote much the same thing to Ed ... but you put it more simply. I'm too gabby. :-) In Elements 5 this is done easily by using "resize" and resize the canvas, not the image. ann Doug Franklin wrote: Ed Keeney wrote: I've thought about it a little more and really what I'm th

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread ann sanfedele
Ed - I incorporate a border to make sure there is no clipping or cropping by the printer, no matter what the aspect ratio... for instance, the cafepress calendar size (standard size) of a page is 8 1/2 x 11... so no matter how I've cropped a landscape orientation shot or shot it full frame a

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Doug Franklin
Ed Keeney wrote: I've thought about it a little more and really what I'm thinking about is say you have a shot that you've cropped square (or wide) and want to print it. How would you go about that. I guess, if you print it, you could always post print crop via a mat or some other mounting pro

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Ed Keeney" Subject: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do? De-lurking for a question and/or opinion... For the most part I crop most of my shots as 4x6 for basic printing for myself and family. Every now and then I take it up to 5x7 or even 8x10. Now eac

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Ed Keeney
OK - lots of answers and thoughts. Thanks! One reason I print 4x6 is to keep in a standard album. Stuff like vacations, kid's sports, etc. When I shoot the kids sports, I tend to take shots of other kids as well and I like to hand out prints to the parents. Going larger tends to increase costs

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread P. J. Alling
John Sessoms wrote: From: Miserere Does anybody know where/why the 5x7 size originated? It's lost in the dim dark ages of history. Predates photography, although before small format film and film enlargers it would be the common size to contact print from 5x7 glass plates and later from 5x7

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Mark Roberts
I try to avoid cropping in most cases, but I have nothing philosophically against it and I'm happy to make images in 2:3, 3:4, 6:7, 4:5, panoramic and other ratios. (As Michael Reichmann said, "The manufacturer of my camera has no right in the world to tell me what aspect ratio my photographs have

RE: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Bob W
> From: Miserere > > Does anybody know where/why the 5x7 size originated? > > It's lost in the dim dark ages of history. > > Predates photography, although before small format film and > film enlargers it would be the common size to contact print > from 5x7 glass plates and later from 5x7 nega

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/12/2009 11:08:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, p...@web-options.com writes: > This question is more for those who don't print on their own > printer, but send it out. Is there a process you follow that > will print something that isn't a standard size? === Wh

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread John Sessoms
From: Miserere Does anybody know where/why the 5x7 size originated? It's lost in the dim dark ages of history. Predates photography, although before small format film and film enlargers it would be the common size to contact print from 5x7 glass plates and later from 5x7 negatives. -- PD

RE: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Bob W
> This question is more for those who don't print on their own > printer, but send it out. Is there a process you follow that > will print something that isn't a standard size? > I usually leave the photo uncropped. I almost always compose in the viewfinder, so I can't understand why people c

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread P. J. Alling
Kodak's original 112 film introduced in 1896 produced 5x7 contact prints. The original format was called Postcard size. So there you go. Miserere wrote: Sorry Ed, but I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. I generally crop my photos to 4:5 ratio; it seems the bit of my brain that deals wit

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/12/2009 8:27:36 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ewkph...@gmail.com writes: De-lurking for a question and/or opinion... For the most part I crop most of my shots as 4x6 for basic printing for myself and family. Every now and then I take it up to 5x7 or even 8x10. Now each of

Re: Cropping & Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-12 Thread Miserere
Sorry Ed, but I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. I generally crop my photos to 4:5 ratio; it seems the bit of my brain that deals with photography likes to see in that ratio. This is helpful because when I send files out for printing I go for 8x10. Sometimes landscape shots I do leave alone