Thread: Help needed with cropping and sizing for Prints
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Old 06-05-2009   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: Help needed with cropping and sizing for Prints
The aspect ratio of an image is the relationship of the long side of the image to the short side.

So an 8x10 is an aspect ratio of 5:4 (10/2=5 and 8/2=4) or in decimal form 5/4=1.25. The long side is 1.25 times the short side. Your image was 800x600 (800/600=1.33). The long side is 1.33 times the short side. 1.33 does not = 1.25 so yothe image you emailed wouldn't fit the 8x10 paper properly. If the y made the long side fit they would have to distort the short side to fill the 8x10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_Ratio
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