Want to print book on Shutterfly?

[Flycaster]

I'd like to make a 8x11 book, with each page showing a full 8x11 image. Most of my jpg images are 11x14, with others being of various smaller sizes. If possible, I'd like the pictures to be full page sized, but I'm not sure how to do this. And, what will I loose when re-sizing smaller images? I will be using Photoshop Elements 18 to do the necessary resizing. Thanks.

 

[NAwlins Contrarian]

I'd like to make a 8x11 book, with each page showing a full 8x11 image. Most of my jpg images are 11x14, with others being of various smaller sizes. If possible, I'd like the pictures to be full page sized, but I'm not sure how to do this. And, what will I loose when re-sizing smaller images? I will be using Photoshop Elements 18 to do the necessary resizing. Thanks.

Short answer

(1) on the proportions, it would be better for you to go back to your originals and re-crop to 8:11 instead of 11:14, but if you can't or won't do that, then you probably won't miss too much; and

(2) on the size (pixel counts, resolution), just upload to Shutterfly whatever you natively have and let them handle the resizing.

Fuller answer

Your JPEG images aren't 11:14 unless you've cropped them to that. Is there some reason you can't undo that crop and re-crop to 8:11? Or if that would be too much trouble, the aspect ratios aren't that different: 1.27:1 images will be re-cropped to 1.38:1, i.e., you will only have 93% of the shorter side (before losses to both sides due to full-bleed) printed. Would that be acceptable?

As far as re-sizing: IMO don't. You don't know--certainly not precisely, and probably not even closely--how many pixels Shutterfly will use, so just send them your files and let them resize. The odds are that they and their software will do a better job than you and your software.

 

[Flycaster]

I'd like to make a 8x11 book, with each page showing a full 8x11 image. Most of my jpg images are 11x14, with others being of various smaller sizes. If possible, I'd like the pictures to be full page sized, but I'm not sure how to do this. And, what will I loose when re-sizing smaller images? I will be using Photoshop Elements 18 to do the necessary resizing. Thanks.

Short answer

(1) on the proportions, it would be better for you to go back to your originals and re-crop to 8:11 instead of 11:14, but if you can't or won't do that, then you probably won't miss too much; and

(2) on the size (pixel counts, resolution), just upload to Shutterfly whatever you natively have and let them handle the resizing.

Fuller answer

Your JPEG images aren't 11:14 unless you've cropped them to that. Is there some reason you can't undo that crop and re-crop to 8:11? Or if that would be too much trouble, the aspect ratios aren't that different: 1.27:1 images will be re-cropped to 1.38:1, i.e., you will only have 93% of the shorter side (before losses to both sides due to full-bleed) printed. Would that be acceptable?

As far as re-sizing: IMO don't. You don't know--certainly not precisely, and probably not even closely--how many pixels Shutterfly will use, so just send them your files and let them resize. The odds are that they and their software will do a better job than you and your software.

Those images that were originally cropped to 11x14 can be re-cropped to 8x11...and I will do that. I have run a "test," letting SF place these re-cropped and originally cropped images on the pages to see how they lay on the pages. Interestingly, there are some images that will cover the whole page, while there are images to are being snapped to the top or the side of the page. The snapping of images is something that I can't change. Of course, I'd like to have these images centered on the page. Perhaps, the problem is that when I do everything manually, I'll be able to rectify these issues? But, right now is holiday, and I won't be able to do anything until tomorrow.

 

[NAwlins Contrarian]

Those images that were originally cropped to 11x14 can be re-cropped to 8x11...and I will do that. I have run a "test," letting SF place these re-cropped and originally cropped images on the pages to see how they lay on the pages. Interestingly, there are some images that will cover the whole page, while there are images to are being snapped to the top or the side of the page. The snapping of images is something that I can't change. Of course, I'd like to have these images centered on the page. Perhaps, the problem is that when I do everything manually, I'll be able to rectify these issues? But, right now is holiday, and I won't be able to do anything until tomorrow.

It's been a few years since I made a Shutterfly book, but I think there is an option to let each page be filled with one image, if that's what you want. If you take an image cropped to 11:14 proportions and tell Shutterfly to fill an 8x11" page with it, then it will almost certainly crop equally off of both sides.

And you can use that same property to lay out a page however you want: place images and text (preferably as layers) into a single file and export it--containing all the individual images and text--as a single JPEG. Then tell Shutterfly to fill a page with it.

 

[wilberforce_1]

I'd like to make a 8x11 book, with each page showing a full 8x11 image. Most of my jpg images are 11x14, with others being of various smaller sizes. If possible, I'd like the pictures to be full page sized, but I'm not sure how to do this. And, what will I loose when re-sizing smaller images? I will be using Photoshop Elements 18 to do the necessary resizing. Thanks.

Short answer

(1) on the proportions, it would be better for you to go back to your originals and re-crop to 8:11 instead of 11:14, but if you can't or won't do that, then you probably won't miss too much; and

(2) on the size (pixel counts, resolution), just upload to Shutterfly whatever you natively have and let them handle the resizing.

Fuller answer

Your JPEG images aren't 11:14 unless you've cropped them to that. Is there some reason you can't undo that crop and re-crop to 8:11? Or if that would be too much trouble, the aspect ratios aren't that different: 1.27:1 images will be re-cropped to 1.38:1, i.e., you will only have 93% of the shorter side (before losses to both sides due to full-bleed) printed. Would that be acceptable?

You can also use generative fill/expand to extend an image if cropping ruins the composition or image content. I have done this quite successfully when changing aspect ratios from the original image. Often this is something as simple as extending the sky and clouds upwards.

 

[Flycaster]

Finally saw the advanced button. This now allowed me to re-position images that were "snapped" to an edge, to the center. I have also been able to resize the images so that they take up more of the page...still leaving a white border. However, when there was the yellow rectangle in the upper left hand corner, I would then down-size so that the rectangle was no longer there. Am I now getting it? Thanks.