Printing

[blackwaterstudio]

I'm finally going through and setting my gallery's. I'm trying to figure out what sizes I can list in my cart when someone orders based on my 20D. Does that make sense?

Instead of having all these sizes I would like for the person to be able to scroll down and pick a size without having to crop the picture and be able to order it.

Any help is appreciated.

[bham]

I'm finally going through and setting my gallery's. I'm trying to figure out what sizes I can list in my cart when someone orders based on my 20D. Does that make sense?

Instead of having all these sizes I would like for the person to be able to scroll down and pick a size without having to crop the picture and be able to order it.

Any help is appreciated.

Since your camera the Canon EOS 20D has a 2x3 ratio (most DSLR are 2x3), any print with the 2x3 ratio will print the full image with no cropping. 4x6, 8x12, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30, 24x36. I think these are the only exact sizes that smugmug offers. But if they offer 6x9, 10x15, 14x21, 18x27, 22x33 those are 2x3 as well.

[Baldy]

We do offer 10x15. http://www.smugmug.com/prints/catalog2.mg

One of the things that makes this problem tough is most people want prints that are familiar sizes and fit their frames: 5x7, 8x10 and 11x14.

It's a cruel irony that most pros who sell a lot use dSLRs with a 2x3 ratio, which are the worst at fitting 8x10s, but that's one of the sizes their customers are most likely to want.

Consumer cameras are typically 4:3, which fits 5x7 and 8x10 well, but the prints people are most likely to want from those cameras are 4x6, the size that doesn't fit well....

I'm unusual, but I take my 20D shots and crop them to a 4:3 ratio for galleries where people buy my enlargements. They display better on SmugMug and I don't have to worry about the small amount of cropping that occurs for the sizes they like: 8x10, 11x14, 16x20, 20x24 and 30x40.

[blackwaterstudio]

Thanks to both of you, I'll add those and then the 5x7 and 8x10 and they can crop it if they want that size.

[bham]

Well if anything I think with the greater variety in print sizes, we are starting to see a few more frames that match (i.e. 8x12) Hey until DSLR's hit I never even heard of that size print. Maybe the frame making people should respond to the printing public. But your right about the cropping on a 8x10. For people shots I try and crop loose enough so this isn't a issue.


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