Help in lightroom print module

I think you need to edit the Page Setup and flip the width and length to get an A2 Landscape page on to which the photo is overlaid.
 
I think you select printer bottom right and something to do with properties layout, only played around with this for the first time last week
 
ndwgolf said:
How can I get this picture to show up in landscape in the lightroom print module?
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Landscape on a portrait page, or landscape on a landscape page?
 
Don't think you can unless you want a smaller size, then just unclick "rotate to fit", or "adjust cell size".
 
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Paul-H said:
I gave up with the Lightroom print module and just send everything to photoshop and print from there, it's much easier to print from Photoshop.
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LOL, no it's not. Lightroom easily allows profiles to be used, templates for different printing layouts, the print module is very powerful.

To display in landscape format in the print module, you change your printer settings from portrait to landscape. Lightroom print module will display in the format you have your printer set to.
 
Didn't know that LR Print followed the printer settings or about the button to get you into printer settings. Many thanks.
 
Not sure if I need a printer installed for this next question.
How can you check what the resolution is going to look like especially say for printing to a A2 size sheet of paper............. example I have a picture that was taken full size in RAW and the same picture saved as a smaller jpg and send the jpg to the printer its only a 500kb file so obviously it isn't going to look very good printed in A2 so I would like to know what it is going to look like before I hit the print button...............How do I do that?
 
ndwgolf said:
How can I get this picture to show up in landscape in the lightroom print module?
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Isn't that photo in landscape format on the paper anyway? To rotate the whole page (paper and photo) you can use the page setup options. No printer needed

ndwgolf said:
Not sure if I need a printer installed for this next question.
How can you check what the resolution is going to look like especially say for printing to a A2 size sheet of paper............. example I have a picture that was taken full size in RAW and the same picture saved as a smaller jpg and send the jpg to the printer its only a 500kb file so obviously it isn't going to look very good printed in A2 so I would like to know what it is going to look like before I hit the print button...............How do I do that?
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If you look on the right hand panel, at the bottom there are a load of print job setting. Like this

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Switch draft mode printing off and set the resolution properly. 240 + ppi and it'll not size a 500kb print for you. Unless you're printing a low res JPG (why though when you have the RAW)
 
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So what you are saying is set the resolution to 240 ppi and go with that whether it be a 10 x 8 or a 17 x 60 panorama , and look and see if lightroom resizes it due to not having enough ppi?
 
Surely it depends on the resolution of the printer? Eg some Canons are 300 dpi and some Epsons 360 dpi, so you'd need a few more pixels for the latter. That's ignoring the use of resizing algorithms, of course; I've printed above the theoretically available size and produced prints that certainly look OK to me as a casual user, though not exhibition quality (at least as much the quality of the image as the printing ;) ).
 
The only thing I have ever printed before is my Air Asia flight itinerary :) but really looking forward to the new challenges
 
I might be wrong but I keep switching between lightroom and Photoshop and find Photoshop print setting to give me all the answers to my question above better than lightroom
 
ChrisR said:
Surely it depends on the resolution of the printer? Eg some Canons are 300 dpi and some Epsons 360 dpi, so you'd need a few more pixels for the latter. That's ignoring the use of resizing algorithms, of course; I've printed above the theoretically available size and produced prints that certainly look OK to me as a casual user, though not exhibition quality (at least as much the quality of the image as the printing ;) ).
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Err no, the Ppi depends how you send it
 
Maybe we're at cross purposes? Some of these things can be very weird because of the strange language used in some printer dialogues, IIRC. Take your 10*8 inch example; for a 300 dpi printer you need an image 3000 pixels by 2400 pixels, while for a 360 dpi printer you'd need an image 3600 pixels by 2880.

I suppose for most of you with humungous megapixel cameras this isn't an issue; I take 35mm film and mostly get scans at somewhere near 2000 to 2400 ppi on the negative. Taking the latter which is what I tend to scan at, that gives me images in 3:2 aspect ratio with 3400 pixels by 2300 pixels. Cropping that to a 10*8 image would give me 2800 pixels along the long side, if I don't lose any more through levelling etc. So I'm a lot closer to a useful image on the 300 dpi printer than the 360!

Anyway as I say this is probably irrelevant at these sizes for most of you, but must come back to bite for larger sizes, for all except the major megapixel folk.
 
ChrisR said:
Maybe we're at cross purposes? Some of these things can be very weird because of the strange language used in some printer dialogues, IIRC. Take your 10*8 inch example; for a 300 dpi printer you need an image 3000 pixels by 2400 pixels, while for a 360 dpi printer you'd need an image 3600 pixels by 2880.

I suppose for most of you with humungous megapixel cameras this isn't an issue; I take 35mm film and mostly get scans at somewhere near 2000 to 2400 ppi on the negative. Taking the latter which is what I tend to scan at, that gives me images in 3:2 aspect ratio with 3400 pixels by 2300 pixels. Cropping that to a 10*8 image would give me 2800 pixels along the long side, if I don't lose any more through levelling etc. So I'm a lot closer to a useful image on the 300 dpi printer than the 360!

Anyway as I say this is probably irrelevant at these sizes for most of you, but must come back to bite for larger sizes, for all except the major megapixel folk.
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I'm sure we are at cross purposes. Especially as LR sends at PPI not DPI (there is a difference) The `DPI your printer quotes is the best it can manage.So the best a 360 DPI printer can do is just that. You can do less. The PPI LR quotes is the way it prepares the file for printing and will be the resolution (assuming your printer is capable of matching it) printed at.
 
I have a panorama that I want to print 17 x 93 inches...................according to Photoshop it will be printed at ~298 ppi and PS also gives me a print preview of what it will look like with regard to resolution I am thinking PS is the way to go.
It also showed me that I have some work to do on the sky if I am going to print it that big..............
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