Resizing for Photobox?

dellipher

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I am wanting to get some prints ordered from Photobox. And I uploaded some prints [for my free ones] and...most of them needed slight "cropping" in the final stages. [It shows you the "red box" of what'll be printed].
SO I took one photo and put the inches as "6 x 4" and obviously that worked perfect.
Now...Question.

I am wanting some A4 prints, and it is set on photbox at 29.7cm x 21cm. Now if I do this via Elements, and set it to 29.7 then the other is 25. something cm.

What am i doing wrong? 'Cos surely its something that I'm not doing right?! lol
 
because that is the ratio on its curent size, that is to say the curent picture at 29.7 cm, would be 25 the other way.

So you have a couple of choices... if its available in Elements, set the crop ratio to 29.7 x 21, then drag out your crop square to as big as possible across the image and position to exactly where you want and crop, and hey presto, a picture that is A4 size. [the actual image may be much bigger depending on the current file size, but its the correct ratio, so when you upload it, they will print it at A4

Or, upload and in the ordering page, where the little red squares are, you can change from crop, to shrink to fit with a little tick box - you will end up with an A4 print but with white borders where the ratio was different. Obviously, the former technique gets the 'fullest' prints, but the second one is best if you really can't bear to crop out any of the image.

hope this helps. ;)
 
I use a really simple program to run through all the pictures I'm going to upload for printing. Use the pre-set ratios like 6" x 4" etc. or add your own. Dead easy and very fast.

http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/

It saves the crop to a folder you choose without re-compressing so there is no loss from saving a jpeg from a jpeg and your original file is untouched. just delete the crops folder after you have got the prints back. Oh and it is freeware :)
 
RobertP said:
I use a really simple program to run through all the pictures I'm going to upload for printing. Use the pre-set ratios like 6" x 4" etc. or add your own. Dead easy and very fast.

http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/

It saves the crop to a folder you choose without re-compressing so there is no loss from saving a jpeg from a jpeg and your original file is untouched. just delete the crops folder after you have got the prints back. Oh and it is freeware :)
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:bonk: All that time piddling around with crops, and NOW you tell me about that program!

Many thanks Robert, just tried it, and its excellent and quick :clap:
 
RobertP said:
I use a really simple program to run through all the pictures I'm going to upload for printing. Use the pre-set ratios like 6" x 4" etc. or add your own. Dead easy and very fast.

http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/

It saves the crop to a folder you choose without re-compressing so there is no loss from saving a jpeg from a jpeg and your original file is untouched. just delete the crops folder after you have got the prints back. Oh and it is freeware :)
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One of the problems Ive found is...I have a picture that Im wanting to print out at A4 Size and its quite a tight crop....the problem is it wants to cut some off. both in photobox and in JPEGCrops....I think this is one I'll have to just "deal!" with :'(
 
dellipher said:
One of the problems Ive found is...I have a picture that Im wanting to print out at A4 Size and its quite a tight crop....the problem is it wants to cut some off. both in photobox and in JPEGCrops....I think this is one I'll have to just "deal!" with :'(
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Us the shrink to fit I mentioned in my first post Adele - ok, it means it wont fill the paper, but better than losing something from an already tight crop.

If you cant see it, give me a shout, will try and get you some screen shots.
 
Many thanks Robert, just tried it, and its excellent and quick :clap:[/QUOTE]

Great little program Robert, many thanks for the link

dellipher said:
I think thats what I'm going to do LL. :)
Im going to order them tomorrow night, and then fingers crossed they'll be here and sorted by thursday!!! :D
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Good luck dellipher, hope they turn out ok.
 
If you want a black background when using the shrink option then resize your image in photshop or something along the thin edg to fit A4. Then the photo is too short so use the canvas size option to make it full A4 again and then use the fill command to put black in the top and bottom sections ;)
 
Hi sorry to hijack this but I just got lots of free credits to use (160, HotUKdeals) and I'm just going through lots of photos to use. What would be the quickest way in altering the images and cropping them? At the moment I am using PS but I know it must be easier in photoshop to this than copy and pasting a image into the 6/4 canvas and setting curves etc then saving.
 
OK just one simple question then.

6x4 in photoshop doesn't seem to be the same size as 6x4 on photbox. The red box cuts of a tiny bit of the right of the image. So now I need to size up a new canvas on photoshop but don't know what size to use. Any ideas?
 
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