Crop size?

[rhoffart]

Do you have a set size for all your crops? Resolution?

When I upload to smugmug it might be printed as a 5x7, 8x10 or whatever. Just wondering do you have a standard?

[prncfarquad]

Good question. I would like to hear some opinions on this as well

[rhoffart]

good or bad, right or wrong I have been cropping to 300 dpi 8in x 10in and trying to leave enough room for other size crops.

[venchka]

Sorta. But not really. I guess my final answer is : Nope. Too many formats. Too many aspect ratios. Oh, and I don't use SmugMug.
Unless the original is 4x5 or 6x7 and I don't crop, I almost NEVER have any photos that are 8x10. 5x7, sure. Lots. 8x10, very few.

[rhoffart]

Originally Posted by venchka

Sorta. But not really. I guess my final answer is : Nope. Too many formats. Too many aspect ratios. Oh, and I don't use SmugMug.
Unless the original is 4x5 or 6x7 and I don't crop, I almost NEVER have any photos that are 8x10. 5x7, sure. Lots. 8x10, very few.

Yea, I used to never crop ... then one day someone said "oh I would have cropped it different" and I started thinking ...

[MicWayWal]

Images for myself, I crop according to the subject and the vision I have in mind. There are no absolutes.

If you are creating images for others, you need to know you may have to stay within normal crops unless you tell your client beforehand that you are going to a unique crop. So create the image that can stay within those standard crops.

As an example, your subject can dictate crop. An individual is "longer" than it is "wide," a family portrait is more rectangular or square. So the print will have a predisposition to a 5x7 or an 8x10 crop.

All of this will change depending on the treatment. Don't let crops hinder you. Keep in mind when you shoot, cropping should help the image not hurt it.

[Stargazer77517]

Im not sure if this is the right way but, I size all my photos to a 4x3 or 3x4 aspect ratio. A print with no crop to 50% crop i size to 11x14, 50% crop or less I go 8x10. I can go from 8x10 to 11x14 with an action I found on Kelbys web site and in the cs3 book of his. works really good with no loss. Just resize by 10% each time and it works great, for some reason 10% work well with the way PS is set up. He shows a print that he did this with from an normal print size to poster size with no loss or pixalization. weird I know.
I offer 2 sizes on my Zenfolio, 11x14 (largest) and 8x10. I use MPIX printing and adjust on their site for any other sizes (5x7 etc) they have a view tool that will allow you to see what any resizing does to the pic.

[John]

I gave up on home printing long ago due to waste cost and have been using the local printing services for 8x10 album pics. I continually run into the problem of deciding where and what to crop to make things fit into the 8x10 format. I wish that I could find someone locally that printed in 8 ½ X 11 (legal size). Lately I have been giving myself a little leeway by adding more border width to my images.

[JWCustomPhotography]

Just recently I have tried to teach myself to frame a tad wider in camera, and crop everything to 8x10. The last order I put together, all my crops bit me in the rear and had to do it all over again, but had I went 8x10 I would have been fine.


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[Karebear98]

Are you talking during post process/editing? I don't crop any of mine until ordered in a particular size for printing. Is this wrong? I basically frame the photo the way I want in camera and leave room within the frame for almost any kind of crop...however, I have yet to print any extreme close-ups where things might possibly get cut off. I have yet to have a problem with anything so far. Not sure if this is a correct or accepted method, just something I was told by a couple TPF photogs.

[Karebear98]

As far as resolution...here's a link from Smug Mug's help center that offers information on resolution and claims that DPI is not all that important but here are their minimum recommendations per size photo. SmugMug Help: Resolution and print quality

I personally don't change a thing...I do my edits and make a low res and hi res version and that's all.

[JWCustomPhotography]

Originally Posted by Karebear98

Are you talking during post process/editing? I don't crop any of mine until ordered in a particular size for printing. Is this wrong? I basically frame the photo the way I want in camera and leave room within the frame for almost any kind of crop...however, I have yet to print any extreme close-ups where things might possibly get cut off. I have yet to have a problem with anything so far. Not sure if this is a correct or accepted method, just something I was told by a couple TPF photogs.

I've salvaged some images by cropping, even though it was right in camera as far as when I hit the button, getting home and working on then I've realize my vision on the shot probably wasn't going to match what the customer wanted. In that case, I crop to 8x10


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