Resizing pictures for printed photos

I take a lot of pictures with my cell phone, and whenever I try to get prints from either Walmart or Shutterfly, the pictures is always cropped, with heads cut off, or feet and legs cut off. I have contacted Shutterfly about this issue and they told me that I need to change my resolution, or ratio in photoshop and then upload the picture to be printed. I don't exactly know how to go about doing this, or what to even change it too. Can anybody offer some help, or does anyone have any experience with this?

iTunes does optimise photos before they are transferred to the iPod (you can see a message in the window at the top of iTunes as it does it). It does not change the dimensions of the photos to fit the iPod screen, but it does reduce the resolution and file size. It also creates a very small version that you can see when there are multiple images on the iPod screen
If you select the option to include the originals in iTunes it will then store the original file, a version optimised for the iPod screen and the tiny little thumbnails as well.
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Correct sizing of a picture for printing

Good day all;
I am a wee bit new at all of this so this question may sound a bit simple.
Is there a correct way to size pictures for printing. This is what I have done.
My camera is set of 6 meg’s which gives me a huge original. I want to take this and print on a 4x6.
I bring up the picture, select print > click on “scale to fit media. This gives me the size of
5.333 X 4.
I go back to the picture select: Image>Image Size. Under Document size I enter 5.333 in the Width. The height changes to 4
Question, am I doing this correctly
Thanks All
Chomp

I looked up the resolutions for the Lumix Dmc-F27. Full resolution is 2816 * 2122 pixels, giving an aspect ratio of 1:1.327. If you want 4 by 6 inch prints (aspect ratio 1:1.5), you should crop so that the long axis is 6 inches. The short axis would then be 4.5241 inches and the resolution would be 469 pixels/inch. If you are sending the image to an injet printer, you would want to crop the short axis to 4 inches. In his Image Sharpening with Adobe PSCS2, Bruce Fraser states that the "native resolution" of HP inkjets is 300 ppi and that of Epsons is 360 ppi. He further states that Epsons can benefit from up to a resolution of 480 ppi and that sending more than 720 ppi to the printer can actually degrade image quality. With your camera, I see no good reason to use less than the native printer resolution unless file size is a concern.
In your situation, it would make sense to crop without resamplilng and send the image to the printer at 469 pixels per inch (assuming that you are using an Epson printer). If you don't mind arbitrary cropping, you could create a Photoshop action to automate the process and you could add suitable sharpening in the process. To simplify things, I would recommend turning off sharpening in the camera.
If you know that you will not need more than 4 by 6 inch prints, I see that the camera has a 1600 x 1200 pixel mode, which would give a 300 ppi 4 x 6 inch print.
If you are having the prints done at Walgreen's or Walmart and do not mind aribitrary cropping, you could likely send the native images to the printer and let the printer handle resampling and cropping. These machines usually print at 300 pixels/inch.

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Height:                   ___ in   (20?)
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Before we get into the specifics, I want to ask "why" you're doing File - New to work on photos (opposed to just File - Open).
Generally speaking, for doing photo or other editing you want to work at or higher than the pixel count you'll want to print at. Even with inkjet printers, there are actually visible differences right up to about 600 ppi, though most folks feel 300 ppi is sufficient for a good print. Somewhere on this forum I wrote up a post where I tested a highly detailed image printed at various ppi levels then examined the results critically with a loupe and took macro photos.
My recommendations / opinions:
I suggest rather than trying to manage ppi early in the process that instead you think in pixels. I've even changed my rulers to measure in Pixels by default, so my File - New menu shows me the pixel counts. Think in pixels while editing, but keep in mind your ultimate use for the image.
If you're just doing photo editing, and not trying, for example, to put together a collage or something, but looking to print one photo, here's a suggestion:
1. Open the image at the camera's native resolution or higher if your computer is powerful enough. What I mean by this is if you open a raw file through Camera Raw, consider choosing one of the upsampled resolutions. I open my Canon 40D files at 6144 x 4096 pixels, for example.
2. Do your photo editing at the pixel size at which you opened the image. In other words, don't do things that resample it.
3. Only consider resampling to match the needs for output. For example, if you're going to print the file, you may not need to resample at all - just let the printer driver do it and see how that works. But if you're going to publish on the web, you will probably want to downsample the image. But do this after you've saved your master file (if you're going to save a copy). Consider the downsampling preparation for output.
In your example, if I were prepping a photo for 16" x 20" output, I'd do this:
1. Open my raw file at 6144 x 4096 (the largest Camera Raw will emit) x 16 bits/channel. Some quick mental math says that the print ppi will work out to the vicinity of 300ish, which is good for an image that size.
2. I'd set the Image size of the smaller side in the Image Size dialog to 16" height WITHOUT resampling. The other side will show as 24", indicating the image will need to be cropped, I'd then crop to 20" on the longer side, again making sure not to resample.
3. I'd do my various editing steps without resampling, and sharpen near the end. The order of steps 2 and 3 isn't really important.
4. I'd then do File - Print.
The thing to do is if you're unsure of things, just try them and do test prints, and use your own judgment about what looks better. Don't assume you HAVE to do things a certain way because of what others say. You might just find a workflow that works for you and gives you dynamite results with your ways of working and your equipment and software.
Good luck.
-Noel

DL high resolution SAP-Netweaver-marketing-pictures for printing

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The company already told me that they will refund my money so that is not the problem.
The ratio differences is what the person told me initially too, however told me that I could also change the dimensions so that the photos would not be cropped and centered automatically...but that's not what I want to do, as it would leave white space on the sides and top, and I have several that I want to frame.
So what do I do now? I have 100's of pictures and over 90% of them have this problem. I used your software to enhance the photos, crop the photos, etc... but I don't see an area that explains to me what part of the image will be cropped out once they are sent out to print. Nor to I see an area that gives me a rectangular dimension to work from. If I have to crop these pictures to get them to turn out right, I need to get started on this right away.
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Preloading a small memory card for a photo frame to be given for holiday gift. Not familiar with these frames.
This Digital Photo Frame is a 16x9 aspect, 800x480 pixels.
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<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. >I would enter 800 px by 480 px in the crop tool, lets you crop and resize >in one step. Then you would probably need to save it as a jpg to use in the >frame. Adjust the compression to get the size/quality trade off that works >for you. Using save for web makes it easy to see the effects of different >compressions. > > The resolution doesn't matter. The frame will display your 800x480 pixels > at its native resolution.

Tips for printing photos with HP ePrint

Hello,
I will be giving you guys a couple of tips on how to print photos with HP ePrint. These are general tips to make it a little more easier to use HP ePrint.
#1: Have 4" x 6" photo paper preloaded in your printer
The first step in getting quality photo prints with HP ePrint is having 4" x 6" HP Photo Paper preloaded in your printer’s dedicated photo paper tray. If your HP ePrint-enabled printer doesn’t have a separate photo paper tray, just make sure that photo paper is the only paper loaded in the tray when printing photos.
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If available, your photos will automatically print on paper from your printer’s dedicated photo paper tray.
If you don’t have photo paper loaded into your photo paper tray, this message will appear on the printer’s display: “Load paper into photo tray”.
If you have 5" x 7" paper loaded into the tray, it will still print a 4" x 6" photo on the paper, leaving a white border along the top and the side.
HP ePrint will ensure your image is printed with the correct orientation so your photo won’t be cut off.
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If you send a photo that is less than 100 dpi, it will not be printed. Instead, you will see a message in your job history on the ePrintCenter that says “Failed”.
To print a photo or image that is less than 100 dpi, insert the image file into a Word document before e-mailing. Your image will be printed on paper from the main printer paper tray.
Image attachments must be less than 5MB (megabytes). Also, HP ePrint supports a maximum of 10 attachments to a single e-mail. E-mails that exceed these limits will not print.
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I have designed a new label WAY to big. And now i need to resize it for a small sticker.
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I am not sure if the resolution/files size requirements are the same for both inkjets (e.g. Epson) and taking your camera's SD card to a local self-serve kiosk (e.g. CVS).
I have been taking photos at the larger file size with my Canon Powershot and importing them into iPhoto. But I just realize that I am going to have a gigantic iPhoto library a lot sooner then expected.
But let's say I wanted to print theses images to a typical 4" x 6" dimension gloss paper stock. What is the rule of thumb in terms of minimum/ideal resolution and file size of the image(s) that I want to print? What about 8.5" x 11"?
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The rule of thumb is 300 dpi. But it's rule of thumb and you can get excellent images from 180 or less with a: a good printer and b: (most importantly) a good shot, well focused and exposed.
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