Simple cropping/printing question

In the darkroom, use a piece of 8x10 photo paper and raise the negative in the enlarger head until the image (in both dimensions) covers the entire piece of paper. You will lose some of the image along the long dimension because of the different aspect ratio of the negative and the printing paper.

Is this an answer to what you were asking? I'm not sure of your question.
 
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Cropping? Cropping?

Best way is to shoot something that is the same proportion and never, ever, ever crop.
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sepiareverb said:
Cropping? Cropping?

Best way is to shoot something that is the same proportion and never, ever, ever crop.
:angel:
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Yes, shoot 8x10 to start with! If that's too big, shoot 6x7. If you have to stick with 35mm ratio, you need to plan the crop prior to the shot since you lose a good bit of neg. I often print to 8x12 to avoid the issue with 2x3 format.
 
I do it a bit differently; I enlarge the long side of the neg to ~9 1/2" and let the short dimension fall where it will. I typically leave a 1/4 inch border along the narrow edge and have the mat cut to reveal about an eighth of an inch around the photo.
Rob
 
Rob, I often print the full 35mm frame on an 8x10 paper too. But the OP asked about full 8x10 printing.
 

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Cannot understand question. There's the masks in many negative carriers and there's the easel for the paper.
 
I am sorry. We are talking PhotoShop CS3. I gave up my darkroom many years ago and knocked out the wall and put in the AV room. NOT giving that up.

I have about 300 digital image files that I need to crop slightly so that they print on 8X10 paper. I need to crop so that when I resize to 8X10 they fit the paper pretty well.
 
It depends on the size of the original image.

If it's standard 35mm it will be 3:2 proportion. But 10x8 inches is 5:4 proportion so something has to give - and always has done so.
 
Well 6x9 is still 2:3 so no, it will not fit on 10x8 paper easily.

I prefer to use 'metric' paper such as 150mm x 100mm (that's 4x6 inn the USA), or A4 size which is very close to 300mm x 200mm.

You can still use 10x8 and either crop the negative or trim the finished print.

The 10x8 format is squarer than the standard 35mm negative format.
 
From "The Impassioned Eye," it looked like he printed an image on paper a size or so bigger than the actual photo; ie. print an 8x10 (or 8x12, whatever) on 11x14 or maybe bigger. There was a large white border and he included key lines. I like the look, but that's an expensive way to get a print!
 
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From "The Impassioned Eye," it looked like he printed an image on paper a size or so bigger than the actual photo; ie. print an 8x10 (or 8x12, whatever) on 11x14 or maybe bigger. There was a large white border and he included key lines. I like the look, but that's an expensive way to get a print!
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I will be printing the image at 7.5" x 9.5" to leave a 1/4" white border all the way around. Still looking for an easy and method to get what I crop to print in the proportions.

Can some one still help?:bang:
 
You can use 10x8 paper, but you cannot print 35mm negatives without cropping one way or the other.

Print full height, and lose some off each side.

Print full width, and don't use the whole 8 inch height.

The negative is a different shape from the paper.
 
OK, another take...

When you buy a DVD of a movie it is likely a widescreen format.

Your TV is likely a conventional format.

So you have a mismatch. You can choose a letterbox presentation (blank screen above and below), or you can choose full screen (but you chop off the left and right).

With 35mm to 10x8 you have the same choice.

I crop to 3000px x 2000px and print, and trim to suit, if needed.
 
I would not crop the photos to fit the paper. It doesn't make sense to ruin the internal coherence of a composition to make it fit a frame.

In photoshop make an 8x10" document that is the resolution you would like. Bring in your photo as a layer and resize it so that there is 1/8" between the top and the bottom of your print (to leave room for the matt). Then when you matt and frame your piece it can cover the extra paper on the two other sides.

my 2 cents
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
You can use 10x8 paper, but you cannot print 35mm negatives without cropping one way or the other.

Print full height, and lose some off each side.

Print full width, and don't use the whole 8 inch height.

The negative is a different shape from the paper.
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Please! These 300 images were taken with consideration they would be printed at the 8X10 format! I am simply asking about the fastest way to crop these so that they print out at exactly the 8X10 ratio so I can leave the 1/4" all the way around.

I thank all of you for your advice, usless as it is! <vbg>
 
greggebhardt said:
I thank all of you for your advice, usless as it is! <vbg>
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I still can't see what's wrong with cropping with fixed aspect ratios in PS, which was the first answer you received. Set the aspect ratio to 7.5:9.5 and crop away. If you are asking for something else then I am afraid I don't understand the question.
 
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