Simple cropping/printing question

[gdi]

There are multiple ways of doing it, but to me the most straightforward would be to open the image, crop to 7.5x9.5in (landscape or portrait) then increase the canvas size to 8x10, being sure to have the color of the border you want selected when doing so. I guess you could create an action to speed it up, but you'll still have to tweak the selection for each image.

If you haven't used PS before you could get a book to help, good luck...

 

[kuzano]

regarding ditigal, Crop Minimally... only if you must

regarding ditigal, Crop Minimally... only if you must

Learn to frame for the final image output. I am frequently surprised by the number of people who shoot with total disregard for the portion of the picture that they want to end up with. Then, in post processing they throw out tons of pixels because "cropping" is so easy and cool. Others have answered the OP question regarding the mechanics, but don't overlook composing the shot for final results.

I addition, your ensuing posts seem to imply that you are looking for a way to "batch crop" all 300 images so that you use the entire captured image to create 8X10 images. I'm not sure that's possible. First, 8X10 as a standard, seems to have been abandoned by the camera, scanner and printer manufacturers insofar as digital is concerned. I think you are faced with treating each image as individual processing to achieve a fixed 8X10 format. I'm sure you can develop a process (formula of processes) that will nearly automate the production of an 8X10 final image size on one image. However, automating a way to apply it to 300 images out of the camera would be a tall order as a batch process.

 

[rbiemer]

Well, you could simply resize the photos to 7.5 x 9.5 with out locking the aspect ratio. This will alter the proportions of every thing in each of the photos in probably unfortunate ways and you'd still need to sort the landscape oriented photos from the portrait oriented ones... but try this on a copy of one photo file first so you can see the results.
I've attached two versions of one of my photos. One I've resized to 9.5 x "whatever the narrow side is" 6.3 in this case--this one will fit on a 8 x 10 with no problem but will NOT fill the paper. The other I resized to 9.5 x 7.5 which would fit on an 8 x 10 with a nice 1/4" border. I know which one I prefer...
Rob