Hello,

I am hoping someone can give me some advice.  I have a picture that I am trying to print from MPix.  I can print the full image in 4x6 size, and no cropping of the image occurs.  However, if I want to print a 5x7, 8x10, 11x14, and so on, MPix forces me to crop the image, but I do not want to.  Is there a way that I can resize the image prior to uploading so that I am not forced to crop away portions of the image that I do not want to?  I have tried playing with both image size and resolution in Photoshop, and neither of these seem to work.  MPix always wants to crop in the same place.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hello and welcome Daddy!  you are being forced to crop because of ratio differences between the diferent sizes.  You can change the cropping size on mpix, by dragging the corners out on your pic though, but you will still lose some on the 5x7, and the 8x10.

search these boards for "aspect ratio" that is where your issue lies and it's been discussed in great detail.

The bottom line is that a 4x6 is a different shape than a 5x7 or 8x10 (divide long side by short side of each and compare the results).   You don't have to lose image but you'll have to add white space all around the image to keep it all.

Consider, double a 4x6 is an 8x12 -- and 8x12 will not fit on an 8x10 piece of paper...