Can anyone tell me why my printer or boots printing booths dont print the complete image shown on my camera? i have some great framed images but when printed the prints come out clipped. Many Thanks

To be honest, you are better off (imo) using one of the online printing services, I use Photobox but there are others. You can crop the pic how you want it then upload. Usually delivered within 24 hrs (a lot less normally) and guaranteed against fading for 100 years!

i dont want to send them off mate, i have a printer but it aint printing all the image that is on the camera screen. wondered if my camera is set up wrong or something

Its all to do with image ratios, your camera will take a shot and the the hight to width ratio of the image in your camera will be set (for example 6:4)

You then go to boots or where ever and ask for your print on 7 inch by 5 inch paper (ie at a ratio of 7:5)

There is obviously a discrepency between the two ratios, so
to carry out this request rescaling has to happen and as a result an amount of cropping occurs and you loose some of the image detail, or less commonly you end up with a blank border along one side of the print.

The solution is to not frame your digital images too closley leave a little room around the subject. Then using a editing program such as photoshop or nikon view you can resize/crop your image at the ratio that you will ultimatley print at.

ie, you tell photoshop "i want to print this at 7x5" it then gives you a tool to crop and frame and compose the picture how you want it while keeping the ratio true to your print size.

If that sounds like too much hassle then you could always try a number of different print sizes and through trial and error discover which is closest to your cameras recorded ratio and gives least loss of image - then always get your prints done to that size. 9x6 and 6x4 are generally the closest match in my experience but I guess it depends on your camera.

hope that makes sence and hope it helps

Thanks kipper, star man.

someone told me Aldi do an online printing service at only 3p per pic much cheaper than doing it at home i would presume.

Some shops that do prints will not crop your prints if you ask them not to. I take mine to my local asda and they never crop my prints.

There is the time, travel which needs to rolled into the TCO or Total cost of ownership so it is not that cheap really. I have a HP A4 photo printer wich is aboout 10p a photo on HP paper with vivera ink. Get home slot in the card, have a shower and when you get out all your photos are done. you need to put a value on your time which is often overlooked. If you put together a HP print against Asda, Tesco or who ever the HP will p1ss on them for qaulity and definition. I PROMISE

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