Fuji Frontier: Cropped picture

[david_hegar]

I just had a set of 8x10in pictures printed on Frontier machine.
However, Frontier cropped most of the pictures quite severely and therefore throwing-off the composition that had been balanced carefully.

Out of 7 pics, 2 were cropped very little, if at all, but the remaining were cropped heavily by Frontier. Interestingly enough, the 2 pics that Frontier did not crop and therefore look good came from PS cropping and had been resized for "8x10in" image in PS . This is what I did in PS to those 2 pics:
Image->Image Size... then within the Document Size frame I set the width=8, height=10, resolution=300.

The 5 remaining pics, I didn't do any cropping at all in PS but I didn't change the image size either...basically, I left them at default PS setting whatever that may be.

So, to have Frontier prints correctly does it mean that I have to resize all images for their specific output size?

What is the best way to avoid unintended cropping in the future?

I'm big time confused here....so any info will be appreciated.

Thanks!!!

David





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[Linda G]

David,

The files coming from the S2 are not the correct dimentions for 8 x 10. they would be more like 8 x 12 so if you need an 8 x 10, you're going to lose some on the long side. I don't know if you took your files to a place that has the capability of choosing a crop or not. Some are called Pic Pro and they do have the capability of moving the crop around, the other, I think, can only center crop.

Here is an image, with the dimentions unchanged, right out of a camera.

If you are used to using a medium format camera, you are about to learn some geometry. :)

The white lines are cropped to leave as much headroom as possible and the image below the white would be cropped out. The orange lines represent a center crop, leaving an inch above and below the center.

[Swampy]

Linda - NICE reply.

[david_hegar]

Thanks Linda!
It all makes sense now. I went and talked to the lab person today and he basically said the same thing.

I had them redo the prints and this time I selected 8x12 and everything came out nice. Also, we figured out how to get the whole image into 5x7 paper, even though it's no longer a real 5x7 prints (more like 4.67x7 pic on a 5x7 paper).

Thanks for all the help.

[Linda G]

Glad to help! You'll learn soon enough to give a little extra space on the width, to accomodate cropping and you'll be much happier with the end result.