Iphoto 6 -- why am i not getting properly framed prints from kodak

Question

I email 4x6 digital images (taken with my panasonic lumix camera) using the iphoto 6 service to be printed and mailed back to me (by kodak, i think) and despite my careful framing of the photos, the prints commonly end up cutting off heads and limbs, etc. I'm always surprised when the print contains part of the image that I'd deliberately cropped out. How is this possible. Am I doing something wrong. Here's one more question from a beginner: is there some way to get the prints mailed back in the sequence taken (they always seem wildly out of sequence). Thanks.

Answer 1

David:
Did you crop your images to 4 x 6 before ordering the prints? If not, then that's why you're getting some parts of the top and bottom getting cut off. The long size is sized to the paper and any excess of the short side, the height, will be cut off equally on top and bottom. You can see the effect if you go to crop a photo and select 4 x 6 in the constrain menu. The default crop area will pop up on the photo and you'll see what will be lost.
Do you Twango?
P.S. After positing the crop area on the picture you must click on the crop button before hitting the Done button or the crop will not be made.