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Aspect Ratio
I hope this question makes some sense. My camera takes pictures at a 1.5
ration ( 3504 X 2336 ). However, when printing to a 13 X 19, the software allows me to go bordered or borderless (full). Doesn't that cause a skew? I also see places that will print 36" X 48" for you. Again, a different aspect ration. The 4X6 seems to be a true ratio, but I am stumped on the more popular sizes. |
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"Robbie" wrote in message news:bwf2f.9992$wm3.7168@trnddc01... I hope this question makes some sense. My camera takes pictures at a 1.5 ration ( 3504 X 2336 ). However, when printing to a 13 X 19, the software allows me to go bordered or borderless (full). Doesn't that cause a skew? I also see places that will print 36" X 48" for you. Again, a different aspect ration. The 4X6 seems to be a true ratio, but I am stumped on the more popular sizes. The image must be cropped to fit the size that don't have 1.5 to 1 aspect ratio, Jim |
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"Robbie" wrote in message news:bwf2f.9992$wm3.7168@trnddc01... I hope this question makes some sense. My camera takes pictures at a 1.5 ration ( 3504 X 2336 ). However, when printing to a 13 X 19, the software allows me to go bordered or borderless (full). Doesn't that cause a skew? I also see places that will print 36" X 48" for you. Again, a different aspect ration. The 4X6 seems to be a true ratio, but I am stumped on the more popular sizes. In some applications increasing the size of the printed image can cause distortion due to not maintaining the aspect ratio...some programs allow you to blow the image up and maintain the aspect ratio (check for this setting in your application) but your image will be cropped when doing borderless (on Epson printers) because what the printer driver does when you select borderless is increase the image to slightly larger than the printable area... If you need good information on image enlargement and what is the best resolution there is a site called scantips (www.scantips.com I think)... |
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"Robbie" wrote in message news:bwf2f.9992$wm3.7168@trnddc01... I hope this question makes some sense. My camera takes pictures at a 1.5 ration ( 3504 X 2336 ). However, when printing to a 13 X 19, the software allows me to go bordered or borderless (full). Doesn't that cause a skew? I also see places that will print 36" X 48" for you. Again, a different aspect ration. The 4X6 seems to be a true ratio, but I am stumped on the more popular sizes. 3504/2336 = 1.5 but 19/13 = 1.46 so the results will depend what the software does. Assuming you want the biggest print possible it can either.. a) stretch the image vertically slightly to make the aspect ratio 1.46 b) maintain the aspect ratio and scale it to the height (you loose a bit off the sides). c) maintain the aspect ratio and scale it to the width (you get white borders top and bottom). Draw rectangles on paper with the right aspect ratio and you will get the idea. Other paper sizes... 6/4 = 1.5 so its a perfect fit. No need for cropping or stretching in one direction. 48/36 = 1.333 so stretching or cropping is required. Best to crop the image to a 1.333 aspect ratio before you send it to them. 10/8 = 1.25 so stretching or cropping is required. By the way ...When you select borderless printing is normal to loose a little bit of the image around ALL edges. This is to ensure the image goes right over the edge if the paper isn't exactly aligned or straight in the printer. This is in addition to any corrections for the aspect ratio, |
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Thx all!
"Robbie" wrote in message news:bwf2f.9992$wm3.7168@trnddc01... I hope this question makes some sense. My camera takes pictures at a 1.5 ration ( 3504 X 2336 ). However, when printing to a 13 X 19, the software allows me to go bordered or borderless (full). Doesn't that cause a skew? I also see places that will print 36" X 48" for you. Again, a different aspect ration. The 4X6 seems to be a true ratio, but I am stumped on the more popular sizes. |
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In the good old days, things were based on a 4x5" neg that could be
printed to 4 x 5" (1/4th the size of a 8x10" photo paper), or 5 x7, which allowed for two prints per page, or a 8 x 10", 11 x14, etc. Then the 35 mm image came along which provided for a about a 24mm x 36mm image or a 1:1.5 aspect ratio. Aspect ratio has continued to evolve into many categories. On some digital cameras, it can even be adjusted. Good labs or software should not skew or compress one dimension to get it to fit. Instead either the image should allow for borders in one dimension, or crop the image to lose part of the other dimension. Some will give you the choice. Skewing the image shouldn't be done unless you request that done. Art Robbie wrote: I hope this question makes some sense. My camera takes pictures at a 1.5 ration ( 3504 X 2336 ). However, when printing to a 13 X 19, the software allows me to go bordered or borderless (full). Doesn't that cause a skew? I also see places that will print 36" X 48" for you. Again, a different aspect ration. The 4X6 seems to be a true ratio, but I am stumped on the more popular sizes. |
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