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Tina Parziale
Aug 15, 2003
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I take pictures with a 5 m olympus digital camera and download them to PS 7 for editing or printing.

I also use HP photosmart printer. However, when I drag and drop my picture into a predetermined size (5X7 -4X6 etc I have a problem because my pictures are automatically cropped to fit on the page. So I lose quite a bit of the picture especially if taken with a wide angle lens. In other words undesired cropping occurs.
Does anyone know how I can scale down or resize my shots so that they will fit in a 4X6 or 5X7 without losing portion of the picture?

I did post this question before but I am still having problems if I want to print on pre cut paper such as 4X6 or 5X7 and then frame the pictures
Thanks
Tina
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YrbkMgr
Aug 15, 2003
Try File|Automate|Fit Image.
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Gary Hummell
Aug 16, 2003
There is no way around it. If you wish to preserve the original proportions of the image, then you have to print to the same proportions. No image can be printed to 4×6, 5×7 and 8×10 without at least two of the prints being cropped. The proportions of the three sizes are all different.

The good news is that almost any camera image can be improved by careful cropping.

Gary
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Gary_Hummell
Feb 15, 2005
You might start by telling us what size image you are starting with. Then explain what you mean about "magnified". The more details you can supply, the higher quality the answer will be.

Gary
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Christine_Krof_Shock
Feb 15, 2005
Mindy–save a copy of the file to PDF. Print the file out of .pdf but instead of "scale to page" in the Acrobat or Acrobat Reader print dialog do a "fit to page". This will resize your document without distorting or pixelating it.
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chrisjbirchall
Jan 21, 2007
No way to do this automatically as far as I know.

By hand, set guides at the appropriate positions and crop to each in turn, saving out as individual files.
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Bob Levine
Jan 21, 2007
Save as PDF. Open in Acrobat or Reader and print tiled pages from there.

Bob

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