Photobook for landscape/portrait images.

[srichards]

I need to organise a photobook for a portfolio review. I've just been wrestling with loxley colours software. I just want a photobook which will scale the *entire* image to fit on the page and not ruin it by zooming/ cropping. Most of the images are landscape but some are portrait so I was assuming using a square format book would do this. Nope. It just zooms in on all of them to make them fit... I have tried every single scaling option in the loxley software and not one is a fit whole image on page with a border. Images are also different sizes as there is the odd one from my bridge camera, several from my sony digital and some from film. The latter two are the same aspect ratio but the bridge camera is squarer. I know it is less consistent but I can't see another way of doing it.

Any ideas on where I can get a book? I also need it by the middle of next week at the latest, ideally end of this one in case I need a plan B.

I've only got 22 images to go in there so I don't need anything massive.

Plan B is photobox and a stack of prints but that is going to look pants I reckon.

 

[srichards]

After wrestling with loxley, dscl and photobox I gave up. Every last one of them did weird things and screwed up the same photos in the same ways. None seem to allow shrinking to show the whole image beyond a certain amount. All would allow zooming in, which I didn't want. I went back to iphoto of all things. Seems to be the odd theme which doesn't munge everything so I re-made another book and somehow the order was altered slightly so the heavily cropped images became slightly cropped. With a bit of jiggling I think it might be ok. Book ordered. Delivery by the end of the week.

I have no idea why it is so difficult just to get uncropped images into a book. It doesn't seem that weird. I tried all different formats, different sizes and even the A3 ones were chopping things off when they could have just printed them smaller!

 

[roobear78]

its because everyones images are different and different sizes also the programs have to accomodate eveyone , you can have full fit images but you need to make sure you select the right template, make sure your images are proportional to the template your trying to use, square peg,round hole and all that

 

[LongLensPhotography]

The simplest thing could be to add images to blank sheet of "paper" on photoshop, save it and upload it as destination images to the service.

Several providers like blurb can also work with lightroom