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Need help with printing pictures taken with my digital camera.

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coolred

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I recently got a new digicam(Sony DSC-V1) and new photo printer(Canon Pixma iP5000). Thus far in my playing hav just been using the software that came with the printer to print my photos. Its called easy photo print. It offers many differant size options for printing, such as 4x6 borderless 4x6 bordered and so on with differant sizes. Well I noticed that thus far in order to print a borderless picture it has to stretch the image, thus causing some distortion and making the subject look fat or something. When I print a 4x6 bordered print it looks fine.

These pictures where all taken at 5MP on the sony, with the exception of one picture I got off the internet, not sure of its specs, but it did the same thing, looked fine with a border, but stretched with a borderless print. Do I need to do something to the pics to get them to fit a border 4x6" peice of paper without distortion? I was just assuming the software would automatically do this. Or do I need to take the pictures at a certain resolution or something?

Also if you can point me to any good photo editing sites, or good software, so I can learn more, that would be great, thanks.
 
Originally posted by: TheGoodGuy
ibasically going borderless means its no longer 4x6 ratio, it its greater hence the distortion.. just go borderd .. no biggie.
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That doesn't make sense, the paper is 4x6, so a borderless image would be 4x6, bordered would make th eimage smaller then 4x6", and it kinda is a big deal, I don't get film developed with borders around my prints.
 
Originally posted by: coolred
Originally posted by: TheGoodGuy
ibasically going borderless means its no longer 4x6 ratio, it its greater hence the distortion.. just go borderd .. no biggie.
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That doesn't make sense, the paper is 4x6, so a borderless image would be 4x6, bordered would make th eimage smaller then 4x6", and it kinda is a big deal, I don't get film developed with borders around my prints.
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I think bordered makes the pictures look better. Just my opinion though.
 
I agree the pictures do look better bordered, because they are not streched like they are borderless, at least in my case. But whats the point of digital cameras and borderless printers if all they can produce is crappy looking borderless prints. There has to be a way to do this without distorition.
 
I read the manual, FAQs and Troubleshooting links for that ip5000, and found nada. If tech support can't help you, return it, and buy this:

Sony DPP-FP30 Photo Printer
  • Create lab-quality digital photographs anywhere you go with the ultra-portable DPP-FP30 digital photo printer. Featuring dye sublimation technology, SuperCoat 2 protective lamination and a high speed processor, the DPP-FP30 prints borderless 4" x 6" and 3 1/2" x 5" prints with up to 16.7 million colors in about 90 seconds on a personal computer. The DPP-FP30's compact design (just 6 7/8" x 2 3/8" x 5 3/8" without the paper tray) makes it perfect for travel. It even features PictBridge technology for convenient printing directly from a compatible digital camera without the need of a computer.

    $30.00 Rebate
 
Step 1: Buy Photoshop Elements.
Step 2: Use it.

I do borderless prints all the time, the key is that you typically need to overlap the edge of the image just slightly beyond the size of the paper. Also, watch out when you start working, Photoshop defaults to 72DPI, as do the JPGs from the cameras (usually) but printers are WAYYYY higher than that (I use 300)
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I do borderless prints all the time, the key is that you typically need to overlap the edge of the image just slightly beyond the size of the paper.
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:thumbsup:

I've got the iP4000 myself (one step down from the OP's printer), and I've never had any problems printing pictures. Naturally the camera will by default take a 4:3 image (unless you set it otherwise; I'm not very familiar with that Sony camera), so there's no way to map that image one-to-one onto a piece of paper that is basically a 3:2 aspect ratio. Some (not very much at all) of the image is going to have to go, vertically. Unless you want to "squish" it, but that's obviously not what you want to do. 😛

Edit: The software (Easy Photo Print) that comes with the printer should do this for you too... It works perfectly for me.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Step 1: Buy Photoshop Elements.
Step 2: Use it.

I do borderless prints all the time, the key is that you typically need to overlap the edge of the image just slightly beyond the size of the paper. Also, watch out when you start working, Photoshop defaults to 72DPI, as do the JPGs from the cameras (usually) but printers are WAYYYY higher than that (I use 300)
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How do I go about overlap the image, I did notice that with a borderless print it not only causes distortion but also crops a portion of the pic.


Ornery, what says that that printer won't do the same thing? I mean I don't think its the printers fault, maybe its the software that came with it, maybe its somethign I am doing wrong, and maybe thats just the way borderless prints look. But if its the last thing, I don't see how anyone would tolerate that.



I want pictures that look like they came from a photo lab, no borders, and no stretching or distortion.
 
Anthony and Matt are right about cropping. I have no idea how photo labs handle that issue when you drop off your digital images to be processed, but it has to be done either by you or the lab.
 
When you mention stretching and distortion, what exactly do you mean? What the software should be doing is cropping a little bit off the top and bottom of the picture to leave a 3:2 image that will fit perfectly onto the 4x6 paper. It shouldn't be stretching or distorting anything at all.
 
Okay first off, I appologize, I was being stupid and forgot about the camera using a 4:3 ratio and the paper being 3:2. That was my first mistake, and that does explain the cropping from the top and bottom of the picture. Because from what i understand in order to make the 4:3 image fit the 3:2 paper, the image is made bigger in all directions till the width reaches the size needed to fill the paper, but at that size the picture is taller then the paper, thus it crops the top and bottom, or just the top or bottom, as I know I can do that in the software.

And after I have played with it some more, the streching I noticed must have been something I did. I printed what I thought was a bordered photo, and it seem to print that way, but the image looked stretched from side to side, not up and down at all. But I just reprinted the same image again as a bordered print, and while the first one did have a border it was large then the second picture I printed. So basically it is almost like it got streched side to side, but I am guessing it was somethign I did wrong, since I can't reproduce it.

So thanks for your help, but all the help on anadtech couldn't help a retard, LOL. The pictures with the exception of the one do look excellant though, I think I made good decisions on both the camera(thanks Ornery) and the printer.
 
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