TimK
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Jan 10, 2006, 10:24 AM
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Re: [bobby bonilla] Help Resizing an image for printing...
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For future reference:
Do not fill the frame in your viewfinder, or as you found out you will have problems with 8x10, 16x 20, etc. When I did photography full-time, I also used digital in a studio, and everything was proofed to 4x5. I created a guide which was 2 thin black lines drawn on a piece of acetate that I then layed over the focus screen in the camera. With that, through the viewfinder I could see exactly where that proportion fell and cropped everything in camera to fit. If your camera allows you to remove the focus screen, I highly recommend doing this.
1. Remove the focus screen and scan at a known resolution (i.e 200 dpi)
2. In Photoshop, open the scan, and also create a new document with a 4x5 dimension (or any factor thereof)
3. Copy the 4x5 document and paste onto the scan of the focus screen
4. Without changing the shape (hold shift), rescale the pasted layer to fit exactly to the edges of the focus screen. The focus screen will be longer than the pasted layer.
5. Draw lines over the exact edges of the focus screen and the ends of the pasted layer that show exactly where the ends of an 4x5 proportion would be.
6. Print at the known resolution (i.e. 200 dpi)
7. Use the print as a guide to lay a piece of acetate over, and trace the guide lines. I used an extra fine sharpie.
8. Replace focus screen with the acetate over it
9. You can now see those lines in the viewfinder and use them as a crop guide so that every shot you take can be printed to a full 8x10
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