Why does snapfish crop my photos

That is, take an in camera 4x6 native landscape image, and print it at 5x7, 8x1' or 11x14 and it should end up narrower than expected, the right and left edges being cut off. If you're seeing the tops and bottoms of landscapes being cut-off, I think something else is going on.

If you're using Lr's border function, I wonder if Snapfish is misinterpreting the white space surrounding the colored Inner Stroke? I haven't used bordered printing much maybe never.

Maybe someone else has had some experience with it. Mark Sirota Senior Member. I can't speak to Snapfish specifically, but most printers will chop a little off all four sides when printing full-bleed, to ensure that the print goes all the way to the edge of the paper.

If you ask the printer to add a white border, usually they'll print the entire file within that border. Could that be what's happening here? Yes, as usual, Mark gives excellent advice. You can't rely on this modern high-speed machinery, especially a consumer-driven lab, to be accurate to that degree. I don't know if Snapfish offers that border option, but if not, pehaps you can add an additional white border with Mogrify. Optional reading: Musings on this problem, without actual experimenting.

Lets assume we have an original 4x6 landscape image, using round numbers it's 8'' pixels tall and 12'' pixels wide. Now, let's use Mogrify to slap on a 4' pixel border all the way around. Mogrify adds the pixels, without resizing the original, so now our image is 88' tall by ' wide. This difference is subtle, but it implies that the landscape image is just a bit taller compared to its width, than a 4x6. That further implies that an exact 4x6 print would cut off the top and bottom i.

That's why I asked about your production method. I assumed that Lr would preserve the aspect ratio as an output, but that Mogrify, being a post-process, would not. Total thought experiment, with no actual evidence, but makes sense to me. Kiwigeoff Lightroom Guru Staff member. Lightroom Guru. Premium Classic Member. Premium Cloud Member. Yep, think of them as ratios as that is what they really are.

Exporting will be the same just set the long side as 7"instead of 6" and ppi as needed. As Geoff correctly says, Yes, if it's cutting the short edges off, that implies a crop 'mis-fit'. All of those common sizes are rectangles, but each of the rectangles is a slightly different shape, due to the different proportions, ranging from more 'rectangular' to more 'square'.

As Geoff says, most folks use VCs to handle differing crops for each image. Imagine the set of photos in a 'family pack' with 4 or 5 different enlargements in varying quantities. Each enlargement has to be individually cropped to account for these differences. There are common cameras that shoot images, and point and shoots are different still. If you want to get around the digital size and have a true 4 x 6 all you need to do is go to enhancements and use the crop feature.

If you set it to 4 x 6 size you can resize your digital print to 4 x 6 and you can keep basically the entire picture. Another option is look at the features of your camera. My camera has a option that will change my file to a 4 x 6 picture, which also solves the problem. Join now to personalize. Bargain Hunters Snapfish photos-chopping off heads??

Original poster's comments 1. Yes I have experienced it. No there is nothing you can do about it. It happens because digital photos are not 4x6 they're 4. That happened to me! Follow your baby's amazing development track my baby Download BabyCenter app. More posts in "Bargain Hunters" group. List of Partners vendors.

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