Resizing Pics

mebuck wrote in post #11739020
okay - im searching for more answers on cropping, aspect ratio and what not. trying to understand it to avoid problems in printing. Can you direct me to a good link or any information that will help me. Basically need to know how to properly crop the image so that nothing or as little as possible is not lost in printing. thanks in advance.

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(i​mage)

It's not that complicated -- each standard print size requires a fitting aspect ratio. They differ because of various reasons that go back typically to different film sizes, although other things get considered as well for printing.

To me, I will decide on a print size that will "fit" my composition and provide a temporary "version" cropped for that print and will keep the original -- that way I can produce another version for a different print size when I want. It's a pretty quick and simple process -- you don't even need to keep copies of the specific print files if you have an action in Photoshop or a preset or Virtual Copy if using a Raw processor.

Thanks for the direction. I have photoshop elements but i prefer to us LR3.

mebuck wrote in post #11741662
Thanks for the direction. I have photoshop elements but i prefer to us LR3.

Very simple with LR -- you can "keep" multiple versions using the "Virtual Copy" function and you can stack them if you wish so that the original is intact but you have at your fingertips the various aspect ratio/crops for common print sizes, and they don't clutter up your file system, or of course you can delete the virtual copies from your gallery without losing the original and just redo the crop at any time.