Avoiding photos being cropped when printing
Muizen:
I will study your reply and in the meantime let you have the resolution of some of my photos: 4272 x 2848.
Fred A:
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4272 x 2848.
That is 3:2 as we suspected.
So any multiple of 3:2 print size (6:4. 9:6, 12:8) will fit with no adjustment in size.
Any standard size other than 4 x 6, (5 x 7, 8 x 10, 11 x 14) will need to be cropped a little to fit the frame.
Of course, it's worth mentioning that those sizes are considered common, but by no means are you bound to them.
You can make your print any size and crop or cropless as you like, and make a matte and frame to fit.
Fred
Terry-M:
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I will study your reply and in the meantime let you have the resolution of some of my photos: 4272 x 2848
I don't know whether this will help or not but have a look at the attachment below.
It's a diagram where the green rectangle is the edge of the 5x7 paper (I've ignored borders for this diagram).
Two situations are shown: The whole of the image is shown in both cases.
1. no cropping and fitting the whole image into the 5x7 paper
2. cropping on so that the 5x7 paper is filled with print.
Hopefully you can see that you either get white strips top & bottom (1) or the edges of the print cropped (2).
This occurs because the aspect ratio of the paper (width : height) is different from the image aspect ratio. See Fred's numbers on his previous post.
In (1) or (2), the only way to fill the paper without cropping would be to stretch the image - Qimage will not do that! ;D
Terry.
Muizen:
Thanks for your help!
I still would like to understand why the following seems logical to me, but apparently is incorrect:
When a 3:2 ratio photo shows a size print of 5,59 x 3,73 in the 'view/print queue' and I select in the print driver a paper size of 6 x 4 (which shows a paper size of 5,685 x 3,731 in QI) I tend to expect that since the printing paper size is on both sides larger than the size print, my photo will be printed completely without any cropping. And that therefore even with the cropping tool on there still should be no cropping because there is no need for cropping. The photo should then have on the long side a white strip of 0,315 and on the small side 0,269. However this is not the case!
What mistake am I making?
Fred A:
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When a 3:2 ratio photo shows a size print of 5,59 x 3,73 in the 'view/print queue' and I select in the print driver a paper size of 6 x 4 (which shows a paper size of 5,685 x 3,731 in QI)
I think we are making progress.
Follow this, and you will see what is happening!!
As you point out, the printable area is 5.685 x 3.73.
So Qimage proceeds to fill your request to FIT to Page; assuming you used that method. Ahhh, it fills out the 3,73 dimension just fine, but cannot go beyond 5.59 unless you give permission to crop a little so Qimage can fill out the long side request.
If you click the crop scissors to on, then Qimage will complete your request.
BTW, the difference between the size print with crop permission and without, is .09 inches. You can easily allow Qimage to crop and it will hardly be noticeable to cover.09 inches of space.
The 4 x 6 print can be made on 4 x 6 paper providing your printer allows borderless printing.
Fred
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