I need some help very badly, please please

fellow members,

If you have a Raw or jpeg image opened in photoshop (say an image taken from a 5D), is there any way that the whole image can just be exactly transformed into an 8x10 inch pic for printing?

Here's my situation:

I have photo printers at home, and the best photo paper in terms of size that i can buy is an A4 (which is btw measured at 21 cm x 29 cm. Now, i am trying to frame my pictures, meaning i bought come corbel frames at SM which are all 8 x 10 in size ( 20 cm x 25 cm).

If I print it on an A4, and with photoshop if centered, then all i have to do is grab a papercutter and cut the areas unprinted. Well that's the easy part. The hard thing is, i would have to crop the image to a 8 x 10 inch size with say 300 dpi reso. I don't find it nice coz some of the ares of the pic are omitted/deleted/croppe​d. Sometimes, you want a background area right? How do i go with this? Is there any way that I can straight away transform a given picture to an 8 x 10 inch size without distorting it?

Would appreciate your enlightening thoughts kind sirs....

In Photoshop, go under Image - Image Resize. This is where you'd resize the document to fit your specifications for printing.

vjack,

that's the thing, the keep aspect ratio is on and when i choose 8inches for the width, it automatically makes the height at 12+inches. If i turn the aspect ratio off, and just use 8 width and 10 height, the pic gets distorted.

I just need to print an image with a 8x10 inches size at 300dpi on an A4 Premium Glossy Paper of Epson.

that's my main problem...

Your original images are in 3x2 ratio, not 8x10 so you need to crop them. There really isn't a way you can scale them to 8x10 without distorting them.

Scottes Crop Tut: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=34567

Even with old film cameras the 35mm film was not ideally suited to an 8x10 enlargement and some compromise had to be made. I cannot remember the aspect ratio of 35mm film but it was definitely not 8x10.

3:2, just like dslr.

Go for an 8x10 sheet with borders. Create, for instance, a 9x6 inch image (2700x1800 pixels @ 300 dpi). Then cut out an 8x10 with 1/2 inch borders on the sides and on top, and 1 1/2 inches on the bottom. (It looks better if the bottom margin is wider.)
Elie

It 's Easy. But you will need to use the CROP tool, as 8x10 is not quite the same ratio as the 3:2 of the dSLR image you are starting with. So, with the image open, just click on the CROP tool. At the top of the editing window you will now see 3 boxes, for width, height, and resolution.

In the width box type exactly this:
10 in

In the height box type exactly this:
8 in

Do not put anything in the resolution box - you could, but it is not necessary, because if you leave it blank it will simply keep the existing full resolution of your camera file.

...and then use the crop tool to select as much of the height as you want and as much of the width as it will allow you - you will lose some image area at the sides, this is unavoidable if you want 8x10.

You can easily then print from PS using "Print with preview" and you'll find the image already sized and centred on the paper for you. Make sure you select the paper size as A4 because it defaults to US letter size.

Try it this way first, see how you get on.

Nigel

You could matt the prints to fit the 8X10" frame since you already have them.

The answer is NO.

The original image itself will have a 3:2 ratio. A 10x8 has a 2.5:2 ratio.

Try making an action to either crop the image chopping off the same amount from the bottom and top or maybe try increasing the camvae to a 4x5 ratio the changing the image size to 8x10. Actions work so much faster than doing each one by hand.

The original 35mm negative film is in fact 35mm wide, but the image is 24mm x 36mm. That makes it 2:3. And that's also why many labs do 8" x 12" enlargements - so you can print the entire image.