Printing digital photos at a specific size

joshm_2

Hi,

I'm after some advice for a (hopefully free) application that will let me specify how big the printed image should be, regardless of ppi, dpi etc. When I say how big, I mean in mm, cm &/or inches.

For example, if I have a 6x4 inch piece of photo paper but a 50mm square frame, I want to be able to take an image (a photo cropped so it's a square) and print it, specifying that the image should be 50mm x 50mm.

Thanks for any recommendations!

joshm

Thanks!

isofa

Any image editor will do this in the resize dialog, it'd be prudent to downshift the resolution to a max of 300dpi when outputting too.

Crop the image to a square and resize to 50mm by 50mm, then print from the same application.

Try Paint.Net.

joshm_2

Thanks for the reply. The ones I've tried so far (MS Outlook Picture Manager, Epson Easy Photo Print, MS Paint) don't. I'll give Paint.net a go - thanks for the tip!

isofa

Well I only ever use Photoshop, but any good image editor will do this including Paint,Net, The GIMP, Picasa etc. You must use the Image resize command though.

Bob_Walsh

Many photo printers come with software that allow the easy printing of photos and include a built in cropping tool, allowing you to crop the photo to the desired printing size. The answer to printing your original aspect digital image to various paper sizes is either bordering (printing the full image and leaving white border space to make up the difference in ratio) or cropping.