I know GIMP can do this, as annoying as GIMP is to use
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To use your example of fitting in a 4x4 frame. Well, thatâs a square. If your image is a square, then youâre good to go.
Assuming the image is not a square, you have to crop it. Letâs say the image is 1920x1080. What you want to do is.
- select all to get a select box on the entire image
- Youâre going to have to lose a horizontal portion of the image to get the square aspect ratio, so drag the selection from the right until itâs a square. At the bottom of the screen it tells you the size of your selection, so youâll know when itâs 1080x1080.
- Move the box left and right until itâs on the portion of the image you want to keep
- press the crop button
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Thanks! Not as simple as what I was hoping for, but that could work.
Another possible solution I need to try out is opening a Word document, adding the image to the document there, and then using the rulers on the top/side of the page to resize the image that way. This seems pretty janky, but might work for what I need.
You donât need to worry about size too much, just crop to the right aspect ratio at the highest resolution you have available. If you have to resize, the resizing will happen at print time. If you have to display it on a screen, the resizing will happen at display time.
For example, letâs say you have a printer that is capable of 300dpi. And you want to print an image that is a standard 4"x6". That means that a digital image of 1200x1800 pixels is the minimum resolution required to get the most out of that printer. Anything higher resolution will be downscaled and still look great. Anything lower resolution (but not TOO low) might start to look a little meh, but still better than you would expect.
So if your actual jpg is 2400x3600, no need to resize it. You can just print it at 4"x6" as easily as you could a 1200x1800. As long as the aspect ratio is right, nothing will be stretched out. Thatâs the most important thing.
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Building on this, what Iâve seen, assuming the 300 dpi resolution of your output device
- 300+ Totally golden, just throw the data at the press
- 150-300 Youâre probably good. If youâre not printing on a production device, chances are low you will be able to tell the difference for a lot of things.
- 72 (Screen Resolution) - 150 Probably the low end of what you can get away with as things start to look okay and dipping into bad.
And all of this is based on viewing distance. The further away your intended viewer is from the print, the lower a resolution you can get away with.
Where are the pictures you are trying to get framed? If theyâre in Google, youâve got the tools in Photos to trim to a given aspect ratio.
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Infranview is my go to for basic photo stuff, it can resize properly too.
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If you donât mind the command line, imagemagick does everything you can imagine image-processing-wise.
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Whatever you do, donât do that. You will not be satisfied with the results. Word is super bad at print layout. Itâs one of the worst possible tools to use here.
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It canât really be made more simple without content-aware cropping. Which is not something that you can use unless you have software that does it like Photoshop.
You have to decide where you want to crop and what specific aspect ratio you want the end result to be. Then you have a file that can be printed regardless of the âscaleâ of the image.
The main problem will be if the image is too low resolution (low âDPI - dots per inchâ from the other post). For your purposes, images donât have sizes. They have pixel density and they have aspect ratio. Get those two right first. Once you get that right, depending on how youâre printing you can print it âActual sizeâ.
As for printing an actual real-world size at the end, not sure what you should do. It depends on your printer, the software youâre using, etc⌠You canât make a bleed or anything without real software, so youâre limited to the options in your application for scaling.
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Prefer excel over word.
Not from Google, unfortunately. A while ago, I found an artist who makes petri-dish artwork and the stuff she does is pretty amazing. She makes a âdishâ every day and I would love to print out a bunch of her stuff and put it up on my wall:
Sheâs been doing this for a couple years now so I have literally hundreds of images to choose from.
You could cheat. Open a Flickr Account, upload them there private, and then order prints.
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I thought about that, but Iâm planning on printing out a bunch of them and it would get pretty expensive quickly.
You should probably be paying the artist for prints of their work, no matter how expensive it might be.
I should, but sheâs not selling the ones I want. Also, theyâre $375.00 per painting and I just canât afford that. If I ever do print out some of her stuff, I plan on donating money to her.
Did you try emailing and asking?
Not yet. I only recently bought a printer to begin with and thought about doing this.
Anyone do a bit of shipping back/forth to Australia lately?
I have a sortof associate I guess, (a fellow engine dealer for the same mfg I rep) in Warnervile NSW, Australia who I need to ship a custom welded part to. For reference and becuase Iâve entered this information like 10x today, 30x30x16 box, weights about 25lb.
DHL is giving me an approx $760 quote.
Does that sound remotely reasonable? I know itâs kindof a big box, and I get Aus shipping is expensive being around the other side of the entire planet. But heâd been saying it shouldnât be too bad. Is that normal price or has COVID been altering prices?
That seems absurdly high. Though Iâm asking a good friend who has more experience with international shipping about it. (Edit - She concurs thatâs too high. And points out we both regularly get pin shipments international 2-day that weight more, for less money. She suggests giving them a call to confirm, and I suggest also exploring other options. Also, make sure you tell them you have a business account if you have one, DHL can be very pricey without one.)
I shipped them two boxes that were not that much smaller - 50cm square by 30cm tall, and about the same weight - registered, tracked, and insured for full value recently(though not via DHL) to the US, and it only cost me about $157 AUD per box to get them there within a week and change. Even the more expensive options like DHL were only 230 or so a box. If thereâs anything I can do to help, gimmie a shout.
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Iâm looking to upgrade my computer a bit. Are the Asus ROG motherboards as great as they profess to be?