PS Printing / Uncentering Image to save paper

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Candace_Harris
Apr 23, 2004
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I have PS7. When I go to print, the print preview always centers the image and therefore wastes photo paper. I am using 8 1/2 X 11 paper for 4 x 6 image and want to be able to utilize the rest of the paper. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
Candace
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Apr 23, 2004
create a new canvas size, then place you images in the areas you want.
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Peter Aitken
Apr 23, 2004
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I have PS7. When I go to print, the print preview always centers the image
and therefore wastes photo paper. I am using 8 1/2 X 11 paper for 4 x 6 image and want to be able to utilize the rest of the paper. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
Candace

Use Print With Preview command. In the dialog uncheck the Center Image option then enter the desired margins in the Position boxes. Enter desired print size in the Print Size boxes. If nexessary click Page Setup and change orientation to landscape or portrait. I regularly do this to print a 5×7 print at one end of a sheet then turn the sheet around and print a another copy at the other end.

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Phosphor
Apr 23, 2004
Yup…used to do this all the time.

More detail,to what T_DO said, abovve:

Create a new 8.5 X 11 document.

Make selections,then copy/paste or drag layers from the old document to separated areas in the new document.

Print.

Drag new selections into blank area of the new document. This will create new layers in the new document.

Toggle off the visibility of the old layers.

Insert the paper you used the first time in the printer, in the same orientation as your first print.

Print again.

Keep in mind that this can quickly make for a very large document. Flatten the old layers after you have printed them. You’ll want to keep them there in the new document, though, so you can still see what areas remain blank.

Make sense?
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Chris_Cox
Apr 23, 2004
Use Print with Preview and just move the image on the page (that’s what it’s there for).
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roger_leale
Apr 23, 2004
To amplify on Chris’s message – you have to unselect the box that says "Center image" – then move it.
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Phosphor
Apr 23, 2004
Hmm…When did the "Print with Preview" feature come about?

I don’t recall using (or knowing about) it back in the job where I used the technique I posted above. Umm, I think we were using version 5.0.x.

Still…even with "Print With Preview", that 8.5 X 11 page outline isn’t going to show where the previous images were printed on a piece of paper. That’s where I see an advantage in the technique I’ve outlined.

I used to fill entire 11 X 17 pages with bits of color and small image selections, side by side, top to bottom, over the course of running that same sheet through the printer 20 or more times, using my technique.

We saved TONS of paper that way.
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barry_gray
Apr 23, 2004
Phos is right-
print with preview gives you the option yes, but "good lord" no control over placement!!!
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directjj
May 7, 2004
Seems like I recall a way in Photoshop Elements 2 to change the default behavior, so you don’t have to go into Print Preview everytime and uncheck the center image check box. It might have been a windows registry tweak. Can’t remember.

It would be nice if Photoshop "remembered" your photo placement from one print to another and didn’t insist on centering the image, or if it would default to upper left hand corner once you unchecked center image one time, at least for a single photoshop session.

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