iphoto involuntary cropping of prints

iPhoto has no "autosize"

iPhoto can you just have to tell it to do it

LN

Have you cropped the photos to the print size before ordering? If you don't you will get some arbitrary cropping on the photofinisher end.

OT

the solution is very simple - you must crop the photo to the correct dimensions before sending to print - trying to print a different shape photo than the paper shpe will have to crop - the only way to control it is for you to crop

LN

PS this question has been answered hundreds of times - not sure where you looked

In spite of all the unhelpful replies, I agree, it's a bug that shouldn't be there in a consumer level product.

Try this: drag your photo (or photos) directly from iPhoto to the desktop. Select them. Then type Command "O" to open. They will open in Preview. This app doesn't do the crop thing. Pictures are printed as you see them. Select "Layout" to print more than one photo per page.

How do you figure it's a bug? That's how printing an image works. There's no way to fit a photo that has a size ratio of 4:3 (from digital cameras) onto a 4" x 6" or 5" x 7" paper stock without losing some of the image as a borderless print.

And you can do what you suggested directly from iPhoto without having to drag out of iPhoto and use Preview. All it takes is knowing how to use iPhoto.

OT

With all due respect; you may or may not be old enough to remember what a big deal WYSIWYG printing was. This violates that concept. Note that all of the Adobe apps can print a picture by auto-scaling it to fit a paper size. At least for now Adobe is still the photo gold standard. Hence it is a bug.

You cannot print a 4:3 ratio photo to 4 x 6 stock with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or any Adobe application. It just can't be done.

The OP mentions involentary cropping which indicates they tried to print a non cropped image to a print size that was not the same size ratio as the image.

iPhoto can scale the original photo to any size you want to print on letter sized stock by using the Custom size option. This will keep the size ratio the same but scale to almost fill letter size stock:

The screenshot above shows a 4:3 image to be printed on a borderless letter size stock. The width is enlarged to fill the paper leaving some white space at the top and bottom, i.e. the image is scaled to fit the paper size.

Check carefully, iPhoto will frequently crop even custom sizes. This is a well known problem. As to Adobe, I have to disagree, Photoshop and Elements can both scale the image to the paper with out cropping - by adding white space as you suggest. IPhoto can't seem to consistently do this.

iPhoto can you just have to tell it to do it

It works correctly every time

LN

Hi Larry, How do I tell iphoto to auto resize? I never had to do this before with older versons of iphoto. never have to do it with pixilator or adobe. Thanks for your help!