Printing 10x8

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I need to produce some prints at 10x8 and 7x5, the 7x5's seem to be printing ok (only tried a few). However, the 10x8's are not playing the game.:nono:

I haven't actually cropped the images in cs4 to 10x8. I could give that a try I guess. I've tried printing at A4 thinking maybe I can cut it down to 10x8 but on some of the shots, if I do that, I'll cut off too much of the scene. If that makes sense.

Can anyone help please.

Many thanks.

Lisa
 
It's a common problem - the native ratio of the images from your camera are 3:2 whereas 8x10 ratio is 5:4, so to print an image at 10x8 something has to give.

You can either crop some of your image so that it matches the ratio you wish to print at, but if your subject is tightly framed you may lose some of it. Alternatively you can 'print to fit' on 10x8, but this will leave white borders that will need trimming off the final print, which means the resulting image, although printed on 10x8 paper, ends up being a bit smaller than that.
 
5X7 is very near to the same ratio as a typical DSLR frame It's almost 3:2. Unfortunately 8X10 is much squarer and will cause some cropping. You can overcome this by telling Photoshop that you are printing on 8x10 paper and then telling it to " fit image". This will generate some padding around the image.

However if you have CS4 you could use the content aware scaling option to compress the image down to 8 x 10.
 
Cropping the file to the correct aspect ratio is the best option for this, unless you want to have bars along the longest edges by making the short edge fit.
 
As above, the 10x8 crop is the best way to go. I have a 10x8 dye-sub that prints on A4 so I know how frustrating it can be at the print stage if the image isn't saved this way
 
I only have that problem when clients want 10 x 8 images, it's a traditional size, which seems to have stuck, I'm going to reduce my price for 12 x 8's to the same as 10 x 8's hoping that stops people ordering 10 x 8's though.
 
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