Cropping a photo to print on 4X6 paper, printing on paper and other issues.

Good morning everyone,
I have a Canon PIXMA MP830 and a Powerbook G4 running iPhoto 4.03
I just got the printer and was trying to print some pictures from iPhoto last week using 4X6 paper. I tried selecting paper size in the advanced features before printing. However, when I previewed in Preview, the picture was in the middle of the preview screen and when I hit print, only the upper quarter corner of the picture printed on only part of the paper.
I found on this forum that I need to try cropping the pictures first. How do I know that they are cropped to 4X6? I guess what I mean is, I don't want to cut anything out of the picture itself. If I crop, won't I have to take part of the "field of view" from my pictures? Also, even if I could do that to print it, how do I make sure that I can retrieve the original picture.
In the past, I have wanted to crop just someone's face. To do this I made a duplicate of the picture and then played with the duplicate so as to not lose my original. Is this the way to do it???
Thank you to everyone for helping me so much in the past and this time as well.
Sincerely ,
Jenn

hi Jennifer
in your preview window, do you have a box where you can check. it should say "center image".
cropping is not required prior to printing. you only need to crop if you are trying to isolate a area of the image. if you like the picture the way it is all you need to do is resize the image itself. either larger or smaller. anyone that tells me that i have to crop before printing i will guarantee to ignore.
i have been printing for a number of years, sometimes as a business i know what i am doing.
i save the images onto CDs before i begin editing. i edit the originals.

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