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Starting a workflow. All my Nikon D70 images are JPG at 3000×2008 pixels. However, now that I have them online and people want to buy them, I’m having trouble converting some of them to common printable sizes like 8×10 or 11×14. The way I see it, my options are limited to this:
1. Crop to one size and that’s the size available. Or to a size from which multiple sizes are available.
* * PROBLEM: Some of my images fill the complete width in landscape, so cropping doesn’t help.
2. Use Image Size to force the image to a certain size.
* ** PROBLEM: Doing this distorts the image. Tolerable to a degree, depending on the image
3. Increase the canvas size in one direction and fill in the space with a solid color. * ** PROBLEM: This only works for images where the background is relatively solid or the filled in extra space creates a seamless transition with the original image. It also makes the image too ‘weighted’ toward the new extra space.
Here is an example. Two pink lotus candles against a black background. There’s not much room to crop horizontally and a fixed marquee at 8×10 chops off the candles. Some photos in my gallery aren’t fortunate enough to have a solid black background to play with, so the problem is even worse.
<http://mikeseyes.smugmug.com/gallery/567714/2/23674500> (two candles) <http://mikeseyes.smugmug.com/gallery/567836/1/23679158> (waterfall; 2nd row, first photo)
Are there any other options? If not, does this mean that when I take photos that I want to print at 8×10, for example, I can’t be filling the whole viewfinder with my subject b/c I’ll have this issue every time? I’m quite dismayed/frustrated.
I know this is something many people have handled, so any advice is appreciated.
1. Crop to one size and that’s the size available. Or to a size from which multiple sizes are available.
* * PROBLEM: Some of my images fill the complete width in landscape, so cropping doesn’t help.
2. Use Image Size to force the image to a certain size.
* ** PROBLEM: Doing this distorts the image. Tolerable to a degree, depending on the image
3. Increase the canvas size in one direction and fill in the space with a solid color. * ** PROBLEM: This only works for images where the background is relatively solid or the filled in extra space creates a seamless transition with the original image. It also makes the image too ‘weighted’ toward the new extra space.
Here is an example. Two pink lotus candles against a black background. There’s not much room to crop horizontally and a fixed marquee at 8×10 chops off the candles. Some photos in my gallery aren’t fortunate enough to have a solid black background to play with, so the problem is even worse.
<http://mikeseyes.smugmug.com/gallery/567714/2/23674500> (two candles) <http://mikeseyes.smugmug.com/gallery/567836/1/23679158> (waterfall; 2nd row, first photo)
Are there any other options? If not, does this mean that when I take photos that I want to print at 8×10, for example, I can’t be filling the whole viewfinder with my subject b/c I’ll have this issue every time? I’m quite dismayed/frustrated.
I know this is something many people have handled, so any advice is appreciated.
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