How to go about printing these

I have a few images I want to have printed and framed (I haven't chosen the pace to print or frame yet so I'm open to suggestion) but I have no experience in printing at all. I have made some weird crops and basically...i'm not sure if its even possible to have them printed.

I didn't intend on printing these when i edited them but now i changed my mind. Here are a few examples of the crop shapes. Will the print/frame shop just know how to print them or do i have to recrop them to normal print sizes?

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For odd crops you will just have to get them printed on the next closest size and tell them not to crop. You'll have a bunch of white space to trim yourself. You'll have to do a custom frame or it would likely be cheaper to do a custom mat padded to a standard frame size.

Just a bit of unsolicited opinion, but those seem a bit dark to me. You might want to have them printed small first as a test to make sure they turn out as you want.

tkbslc wrote in post #15407457
For odd crops you will just have to get them printed on the next closest size and tell them not to crop. You'll have a bunch of white space to trim yourself. You'll have to do a custom frame or it would likely be cheaper to do a custom mat padded to a standard frame size.

Just a bit of unsolicited opinion, but those seem a bit dark to me. You might want to have them printed small first as a test to make sure they turn out as you want.

Ahh I see. Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the newbie question but, whats the difference between a custom frame and a custom padded mat on a standard frame size? il definitly do a test print to make sure they turn out ok! The laptop I used to edit has a really small and crappy screen, i might check the shots on a proper pc before i print at all. Thanks for the heads up and advice!

neimad19 wrote in post #15407492
Ahh I see. Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the newbie question but, whats the difference between a custom frame and a custom padded mat on a standard frame size? il definitly do a test print to make sure they turn out ok! The laptop I used to edit has a really small and crappy screen, i might check the shots on a proper pc before i print at all. Thanks for the heads up and advice!

A matte is a bit of material that can frame your image and then fits into a bigger frame, typically one of the standard sizes.

You might want to check out some craft/art/hobby shops in your area. That's a good way of getting an idea of what people do, and so what you might check out with online suppliers.

Not a cheap option, and I haven't tried them (out of my budget range) but they do ship internationally is a company called Whitewall.com. They will print at literally any size you want, with no limits on aspect ratio, they can make prints up to at least 72" on the long edge. They also offer bespoke framing, but that can become very expensive, depending on your budget of course.

Alan

tkbslc's advice is good, but dependent on good communication with the printer so he doesn't crop or over-enlarge the images to make them fill the paper. It is safer to supply him with a file that already includes the margins that you want. In PS, for instance, you do this by pasting the image on a canvas that has the aspect ratio of the print. In LR you can set up your page layout in the Print module and save that to jpg.