Please help with resizing question...PLEASE!!

I am new to digital SLR photography. I had a film SLR before. I am so frustrated when it comes to resizing my photos! I recently took some portraits of a friend and her fiance. I have a 300D and I took some of the photos on RAW and some on Large JPEG. After loading them onto the computer and doing all the editing I resized them for printing. When I resize the images, I resized them to 8 x 10. I then uploaded them to a photography business here in town for printing. When she went and picked them up (she had ordered all 4 x 6), some were good, but the majority had a good area of the photo chopped off (like heads, arms, etc.).

So, my question is how do I avoid this? Is there a formula or some other way to resize the images? Won't the same thing happen if I don't resize them at all?

Please help! Thanks if you do!! Suzie

You camera sensor has a 3:2 ratio, you printed images with an 4:5 ratio. Something has to be lost there. Crop them in photoshop yourself, or print 6x9/6.6x10/10x15 images.

https://photography-on-the.net …ighlight=crop#p​ost1827021

tim could you help me also with resizing question? I have just bought a canon 5d my first dslr, is it actually possible to resize my high quality jpegs to the printing size of 10x8 without effecting the images proportions?

jon dawe wrote in post #2075662
tim could you help me also with resizing question? I have just bought a canon 5d my first dslr, is it actually possible to resize my high quality jpegs to the printing size of 10x8 without effecting the images proportions?

Welcome to the forum Jon. The answer to your question is no. Like Tim stated before the image ratio of your camera is 3:2 so in order to get your image to a 10x8 you would need to either crop (recommended) or resample the image (not recommended because of distortion).

In2Photos wrote in post #2075704
Welcome to the forum Jon. The answer to your question is no. Like Tim stated before the image ratio of your camera is 3:2 so in order to get your image to a 10x8 you would need to either crop (recommended) or resample the image (not recommended because of distortion).

There is one more possibility. If, when ordering an 8x10 print, you specify "No cropping" it will be printed 6.7x10. You can then trim off the white border.
Elie

jon dawe wrote in post #2075662
tim could you help me also with resizing question? I have just bought a canon 5d my first dslr, is it actually possible to resize my high quality jpegs to the printing size of 10x8 without effecting the images proportions?

It is the same problem that Cinderella's Sisters faced. It just WONT fit, no matter what you do, 3x2 just is not 5x4.

The term is Aspect Ratio. The ratio of height compared to width.

Such as it is, you have only 4 choices:

Example 1) Print the whole shot in 3x2 ratio, get a 3x2 ratio frame and be done with it.

Example 2) Print it in 3x2 ratio on 5x4 ratio paper. This will result in un-printed margins on the top and bottom. Those are the white margins top and bottom that you see.

Example 3) Crop the shot to 5x4 ratio and print it. You will use all the paper, but, as you said, you lose some of the image. The parts that will be cropped off are the gray areas left and right.

4) Skew the original shot to 83.33% of the width, and print it on 5x4 ratio paper. This will distort the image, but some subjects complain that the camera adds weight anyway, so maybe it is a good choice.

So, until the Big Crunch a couple hundred billion years from now - when the Newtonian laws of physics break down and length is meaningless - you are stuck with these 4 choices.

Rad

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Nice illustration, Rad. I can see this one being wheeled out about 10000000000 times in the near future...

Excellent post Radtec