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Godfuck
Hi.

Does anybody here have experience with printing photos on glossy paper? I got these 6-inches glossy papers + 0.5 inch border at the end (therefore 6.5 inches long) and my printer prints on those papers.. I only need to know the specific configurations so that I can get a proper photo printed.

I have been struggling, trying different options and positions, but I always end up missing a part of the original picture, or with 1/4 of it showing up on paper.

Any help?
(pic is the photo i want to print)

tl;dr => anyone knows the regular configurations for printing photos?
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>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Sounds like you just need to crop your shot so that it matches the aspect ratio of the paper. Most P&S digital cameras like your PowerShot there use a 4x3 aspect ratio, sounds like your paper is not that aspect ratio (5x7 and 4x6 are common sizes for photo paper. Never heard of 6.5xWhatever)
>> Godfuck
>>89371
My paper is 6x4 (you mentioned 4x6, I guess that's it)
>> Godfuck
>>89371
Right, so aspect ratio. How the fuck did I miss that >:( I'll crop my pictures to an identical photo ratio. Thanks.

P.S: This might sound dumb, but how many pixels are there in an inch? can I crop/resize my pictures so that they exactly fit the printing paper?
>> Anonymous
Don't crop your pictures. Print them as large as you can uncropped on that paper, and slice off the margins with a papercutter.

Cropping a shot differently changes it just as much as changing the exposure or focus on something like that.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>89376
Yes, 4x6 = 6x4. It's an understandable noob mistake (by which I mean, it's a mistake I made when I was a noob). You just sort of naturally expect that they'd sell paper to match the size of pictures that come out of one's camera. Which is true with (most) digital SLRs and 35mm film cameras, which use a 2x3 aspect ratio natively (which fits 4x6 prints perfectly), but not with (most) point & shoot digital cameras, which use a 4x3 aspect ratio (which fits a monitor or TV perfectly). And then there's the fun of 8x10, the common size for slightly larger prints, which doesn't fit 4x3 OR 2x3, because it got standardized back when people were making 8x10 contact prints from large-format negatives (or glass plates), or at least enlargements from 4x5 large-format.

The ratio of pixels to an inch is not fixed, and depends on what those pixels are being displayed on. That's why you can have a 14" monitor that can display 1024x768 pixels and a physically-identical 14" monitor that can only do 800x600. It's even more true with paper. The number of dots that'll fit in an inch depends on the printer. For a good quality print to be viewed reasonably close up, you want to aim for around 300dpi ("dots" equals "pixels" for the purposes of this discussion). HOWEVER: Most image manipulation programs will let you crop to a given ratio, so just crop to 2x3 and you're good.

>>89380
Look at the actual picture he's trying to print. All he'll be cropping is sky. For 90% of the pictures out there, cropping to fit a different aspect ratio really doesn't have a very serious effect on it. I've only got one shot that I think was framed perfectly enough that it upset me to crop it to fit a 5x7 print that I wanted to make (and I couldn't bring myself to crop it to fit an 8x10)
>> Anonymous
>>89381
1. Not 90% of the good pictures.
2. What's gained by cropping it? The thirty seconds of extra work to chop off the edges? The little extra bit of size?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>89389
Not having to cut the edge by hand and the ability to put it in a standard-sized frame are the big'ns. It's just a lot more convenient overall to deal with.

And if you try it, you might be surprised at how little a few pixels sliced off the side really matter.