Hi all
I've just watched the 'Print the Perfect Image' tutorial on Adobe TV (here) and it got me wondering about whether this is a good thing to do when preparing pics to send off to the printers.
Whilst I've got a printer at home (Epson Photo R220), I don't necessarily use it for printing photos, instead I prefer to send them off to places like DSCL. The trouble I have is that sometimes (most of the time!) I don't crop to a certain size or ratio, instead I crop to what looks good, irrespective of the ratio. Therefore whilst they may look good on screen, when it comes to printing, I often get prints back with heads partially chopped off and other weird stuff like that.
So, advice time if I may. Should I play around with preparing images in the print module of LR3 and then export to JPG for print or should I just improve my cropping skills and crop to a determined ratio/size and send off the exported JPG's from the develop module?
thanks
I've just watched the 'Print the Perfect Image' tutorial on Adobe TV (here) and it got me wondering about whether this is a good thing to do when preparing pics to send off to the printers.
Whilst I've got a printer at home (Epson Photo R220), I don't necessarily use it for printing photos, instead I prefer to send them off to places like DSCL. The trouble I have is that sometimes (most of the time!) I don't crop to a certain size or ratio, instead I crop to what looks good, irrespective of the ratio. Therefore whilst they may look good on screen, when it comes to printing, I often get prints back with heads partially chopped off and other weird stuff like that.
So, advice time if I may. Should I play around with preparing images in the print module of LR3 and then export to JPG for print or should I just improve my cropping skills and crop to a determined ratio/size and send off the exported JPG's from the develop module?
thanks
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