A question about getting images printed...

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Betty

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Carrying on from my recent baby pic thread, Ive had a thought. Yes it hurt :D

All my pics are cropped slightly to get the balance right, and I use the crop tool in CS3 on the 8x10 preset, so they are all the same dimensions:

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Question is... What if the customer wants it printed on 5x7? Is this going to mess up the dimensions? Will the prints come with black borders down one side because the crop was set to print at 8x10? Am I making sense? :)

I am really worried now Ill have to go back through my shots and crop them using different presets, hmmmph.
 
Booo! Noone? Have I worded my question wrong, or can noone really help me? :D
 
Yes it will mess up your image as they wont have the right aspect ratio, take the 5x7 crop tool and draw over your 8x10 and see!

But what normally happens is they expand/shrink the image so the smaller side fits and therefore you might have heads cut off :(
 
Betty said:
I am really worried now Ill have to go back through my shots and crop them using different presets, hmmmph.
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That is what you will have to do. If they want a 5x7 you shiuld crop it 5x7. If they want a 10x8 , crop it to that size.

They could come back cropped possibly missing some of the piccy. I would imagine any decent printer will spot it and contact you before printing.
 
:agree: with above

But one other thing you MUST do!!!

Tell all clients that some print formats may severely crop into an image. I had some prints orders from a Wedding many moons ago all as 10x8s for which they paid over £100 in total

When I handed them over you could feel the disappointment let alone see it in their faces :eek:

The full image as shot was perfectly composed of their bridesmaids & other kids, but the 10x8 crop chopped off all of their feet and the expensive shoes. They did realise that it couldn't be helped at that ratio, but were clearly very upset

Then I told them that if they'd ordered A4s instead, they'd have gotten very close to the full image - but would have had more problems with frames

I then offered to reprint them all as A4s at 'cost' (ok, it was about 3x actual cost but I added on for my time) and directed them to an A4 frame supplier locally to them. Result, very happy clients now thinking Sun shines from my arse :lol:

AND - I learned to warn everyone on the order form, and prior to printing, of any order where potentially bad cropping would result !!! Looks like great service, and saves you the problem of unhappy clients

:thumbs:

DD
 
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