Cropping to Panorama and printing?

[troyer16]

Hey all I need a little help.

I have one image, which i cropped to be in the shape of a panorama (rectangle). Is there a way in which i can print this, so it is wider than it is high even though it is only one image? Thanks.

[lkb-28]

Hi Troy;

YES, Simple... If you have your own printer, just use letter or A4 paper in landscape mode. Do the page set-up to print the image centered, and voila...

Any "spare" area will be white/unused, and you can simply chop it off...

If you want it larger, or need to go outside to an external printers, they are used to dealing with landscape images, and will apply the same basic fundamentals...

Cheers;

Lee

[troyer16]

Thank you! I usually do all of my prints from mpix. Shouldnt be a problem correct?

[Jim G]

What I do here is make an image in Photoshop or whatever which is just white in the dimensions of the original (2:3, whatever pix x pix) and paste the pano into that. This ought to guarantee that the printer doesn't try and squash the image up to fit A4.

I've had problems in the past with printers that the employees swore wouldn't have issues with panoramics squash my images up to fill the 8x12 which is why I started doing that.

[troyer16]

Thanks Jim, that seems like a good idea. I could then order a custom made matt and trim off the excess white.