Printed pics cut off.

Norah

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Crop your photos to the print size and then print (digital photos from point and shoot cameras are typically 4:3 ratio which would natively print 8X12 - when you print 8x10 you are loosing 1 inch form the top and bottom - you must make the crop before printing to avoid having the computer do it arbitrarily

Alternatively you can click on customize in the first print window and then right click (control click) on the preview window and choose fit to frame - this will add white space to the sides rather than cut off the top and bottom

LN

then right click (control click)

Right click is the same as control click - depress the control key and click

I used a Cannon 40D EOS camera and don't have the cropping issue when I print 4x6 shots.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=139&mo delid=17779#ModelTechSpecsAct

You have a DSLR and they typically use a 3:2 aspect ratio (that is the aspect ratio of yours camera) which matches a 4x6 print with no cropping - it does not match an 8x10 print (a 3x 2.4 aspect ratio)

you must make the crop before printing to avoid having the computer do it arbitrarily

Crop the photo to 8x10 and then print - it will work exactly as I described - or control click on the preview screen in the customize window and it will work exactly as I described (white fill onteh sides

LN

Norah, Can you tell me. Does this happen when you print multiple pictures as well? I have HP Image Print on my computer. If I use the iPhoto, it crops my pictures. If I use HP Image Print, it will not. My problem now is we just installed Snow Leopard and I think it won't allow me to use Image Print so now I'm back to the same problem you have. I'm at a loss and don't know where to go from here. I'm wasting expensive paper and having to reprint my pictures in different locations so I can get some that are intact.

Pat

The answer to your inquiry is exactly the same as the answer to Norah's

Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forum

Crop your photos to the print size and then print (digital photos from point and shoot cameras are typically 4:3 ratio which would natively print 8X12 - when you print 8x10 you are loosing 1 inch form the top and bottom - you must make the crop before printing to avoid having the computer do it arbitrarily

Alternatively you can click on customize in the first print window and then right click (control click) on the preview window and choose fit to frame - this will add white space to the sides rather than cut off the top and bottom

LN

I have a similar, but slightly different problem than Norah.

I routinely print 4 pictures per page on my Epson. I want them as
large as possible, but not cropped. When I take the suggestion
about control clicking in the print window, it works.
There are just two problems:
1) This is laborious, since I have to do it 4 times for each of many pages; and
2) I would like to reduce the white space and enlarge the prints.
Can anyone solve one or both of these problems?
(Oh, and I chose a print size of 3x5 in order to get 4 per page.
This was not a problem with previous version of iPhoto.)
Thanks!