Printing does not fit photo sizes, it crops badly

[Coffee]

I am new to digital photography and have a S50. When I have the photos printed professionally they crop drastically as apposed to the normal 35mm when made to fit on any standard photo print. The other option is to keep the photo square but then have huge white borders on the sides. Can this problem be easily overcome? Or am I missing something? I am now taking photos with huge spaces between subject and the LCD frame to prevent them being chopped off.

[S45_fornow...]

What program are you using to print with? The settings make all the difference!

[sunnysdesk]

The simplest way to avoid this printing problem is to crop your pictures before taking it to the digital printing place (in my case Costco). I got a A40 which gives 1200x1600 pixel pictures. So you crop them down to 1080x1600 for 4x6 pictures...dont remember the exact#, but you get the idea.

Sunil

Coffee wrote:
I am new to digital photography and have a S50. When I have the photos printed professionally they crop drastically as apposed to the normal 35mm when made to fit on any standard photo print. The other option is to keep the photo square but then have huge white borders on the sides. Can this problem be easily overcome? Or am I missing something? I am now taking photos with huge spaces between subject and the LCD frame to prevent them being chopped off.

[Coffee]

Thanks. But I'm not printing them myself, I'm having them printed at a shop, straight from the camera captured JPG, and I've tried all the compression ratios and the Pixel settings from 5Mp down to 2Mp.

[Coffee]

Thanks, I get the idea. However, besides the amount of time that must take you when you get back from holiday, does that not leave you with the same problem in that you still have to chop a large margin around the picture to get it to fit standard photo sizes? I.e., whether you crop it personally or the shop does it for you, you still have to leave a large gap between the subject and the edge of the LCD or it will chop when cropped for the standard photo size?