Heads and Feet cut off!!!!

[samdhyne]

Help!!! I took some pictures that looked pretty great on the computer, I was super excited to print them off (pretty new to my DSLR) and the person in the picture ending up having their feet and head cut off in almost all of the pictures!!! They were printed at a Wolf Camera and they said to try printing them at a 8x12 instead of the 8x10, but these pictures were supposed to go into this models portfolio.......Any other suggestions? What can I do so that this doesn't happen again? Thank you!

[ffscj3562130]

For 8x10 you need to leave enough space on the top or bottom to allow for cropping to the right size.

[BigVinnie]

Use a lab that can print a full frame 8x10. You will have white borders on two sides.

[oldwolf]

or print an 8x12 or even a 9x12

[NicoleScraps]

Anytime that I have ever had an 8x10 printed, I always crop it to size in photoshop before I submit it for printing. That way I control what gets cropped, not them. If nothing else, you are at least able to see if the size is going to work for the particular photo.

[KenRC51]

If you know you are going to be printing 8x10 you should of taken the pictures with more room. Was it a vertical or a horizontal shot? I'm guessing that it a vertical shot since the head and feet were cut off. What you can you is use LR3 to do your own cropping but you will lose the feet.

[prince]

NEVER let the lab control your cropping. Do it in PS or using their cropping tool in preview. I recently had the same problem with a photo for a client and I switched to 8x12