The downside for me with this is that I have to calculate the borders for each different picture because of the different aspect ratios of all the pictures. Ideally it would be interesting to be able put the picture on the layout board at desired size (45, 50, 60cm...) and then be able to tell the software to grow a matte around it to the exact dimension I want, with the pictured centered inside that matte (70x50 in my case). A bit like in photoshop where you can choose the expand the canvas to a fixed value, or relative to the existing size.
This is just not making sense to me. Why set the width to 50 when you could set the width to 70 and get a larger 70 x 46.67 that fills the same frame?
Perhaps a video is worth a thousand words :
This is a videoclip from our exhibition last year.
You can see how we present our work. All our frames are 70x50. And we insert a 70x50 cardboard with the photo fixed to it in those frames.
This is a videoclip where I explain a little bit more
For the exhibition we have 100+ photos to process, that's why I'm looking for the most efficient way to do this.
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