OK I am a dummy for this one. I have an epson 825 and a G2..
Obviously in photoshop, it has the size of the image at 32" wide or
something like that. How am I best to get it to print to a 4x6..
this is what i currently do
go to image-resize image.. i then set the image width to 6 inches..
this brings the height to 4.5 inches.. that 1/2 inch gets cropped
when i print..
Is there a better way to do this?
This is basically due to the aspect ratio of the origfinal image.
The G2 gives an image with 4 horiziontal to every 3 vertical
pixels. Assume pixels are square.
The aspect ratio is therefore 4:3.
Conventional film is 3:2 aspect ratio (width 3x:height 2x). So a
3:2 shaped image easily scales to 6x4".
A 4:3 image will not scale to 6x4 exactly. Multiply the 4x1.5 =6,
but 3x1.5=4.5 so you get an extra 0.5" height that won't fit in a
6x4" print.
Alternatively if you multiplied the height 3, x1..333... to get 4",
then the width only goes up to 4x1.3333=5.333, not 6" and you get
.333" white either side.
Now just stretching the image to fit 6x4 won't do because the image
would be squashed vertcially making people look shorter and stouter.
What you should ideaaly do is set up a crop with a fixed ratio of 3:2.
This is not just a problem wth 6x4s, but also 7x5s, 10x8s which all
have different aspect ratios. When all our printing was done in
labs, most people didn't notice the crops because you wouldn't
usually look at the negatives to know that bits were not included
at certain sizes.
RW
