Comments on: Video – Tips for Laying Out Your Prints

By: aaron

aaron — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:51:59 +0000

Great video -I have been wrestling with this for months (borderless issue). Well done.

Aaron

By: Geoff Faulkner

Geoff Faulkner — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:54:27 +0000

Thanks for the video Matt. I want to use the print module, but your Page Setup window on the Mac is very different than the one in Windows. I have several printers but none have any standard print sized photographs like 8×10. As such, I cannot format a new print template as an 8×10, 5×7 or 4×6, only sizes like “Letter”, “Legal”, “A4″, etc.

I mostly use the print module to create a collage for export as JPG to upload to a service provider for printing. It would be extremely helpful to include the option to manually set the page size and not rely on the specifics of the printer I happen to use. I am using Vista which doesn’t have drivers for some of the printers I use anyways.

If I try to do anything in the Page Setup form like change the orientation, it also sets the paper size which is not desired. I need to be able to set the orientation, page size, etc. manually.

Here is an example collage that I put together easily:
http://geofffaulknerphotography.smugmug.com/Event-Photos/2009-08-15-Connealy-Family/9291623_2CaqV/1/620998056_RbD7u

But another that was a complete pain trying to get the order of the photos right:
http://geofffaulknerphotography.smugmug.com/Event-Photos/2009-08-26-Cargill-baby-photos/9421309_PpZAU/1/#631614097_gurHj-A-LB

My customers seem like this print collage option, but they can be difficult to setup in Lightroom. Without switching orientation, you can tell Lightroom to “Rotate to fit”, but the order of the pictures doesn’t match the order of the pictures in the panel (plus you are now working sideways). You have to randomly drag the photo order until you come up with an arrangement that works.

Thanks,
Geoff

By: James

James — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:22:31 +0000

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By: Adrian Taylor

Adrian Taylor — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:51:56 +0000

Woo Hoo! Thanks Matt, at last a simple explination of what I was doing wrong &/or missing out.
Previously I had been taking my images back into photoshop for print, to get the results I wanted. This is much quicker.

By: Greg Harp

Greg Harp — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:57:44 +0000

Is a lack of ability to soft-proof not an issue then? Frankly I don’t use the print module in Lightroom because there is no way that I am aware of to check out of gamut colors, so I open the image in Photoshop to use its Gammut Warning command. Does Lightroom automatically correct out of gammut colors?

By: Carolyn Fahm

Carolyn Fahm — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:13:51 +0000

Thanks, Michael! In the future I will compose with cropping in mind.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:57:37 +0000

Matt,

I would love to watch the video, but my audio cuts out at 00:25. Any thoughts?

By: Michael Harris

Michael Harris — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:40:00 +0000

Hey Matt
quote “I remember Rick Sammon saying “the name of the game is to fill the frame” and to “compose in camera”. unquote….
There’s an idea for a tut! Aspect ratios between sensors, screens and print / Paper sizes…etc. And if you really want to explode peoples brains you could cover standard Frame mount sizes ! ! !
I started photography with 35 mm film and quickly learned that the only time you filled the frame was when you were shooting slide film. Printing always meant cropping something of the ends or white spaces on your prints. Nowadays with different sensor sizes the whole ratio thing needs to be explained properly.
Incidentally I would recommend to people that they make a copy of the image and rename it “file name_print size” do whatever crop you need to fit the print size and then go to print. Saves a lot of messing around and of course you have it all ready if you need to make a second copy in the future.

By: Andrzej Zawadzki

Andrzej Zawadzki — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:07:05 +0000

@Gary

In the page setup options in the printer setup (source > paper) you have to select borderless paper. For example I have Epson 1290, and in the sheet options there are the following settings

Roll Paper
Roll Paper – No margins
Sheet Paper
Sheet Paper – No margins

So I would choose ‘Sheet Paper – no margins’ to do borderless printing on a single sheet, as this then allows the margins to be set to 0.

Please check what your printer setup options are. There should be a borderless, or no margin paper option.

Hope this helps.

By: Tony Mangerie

Tony Mangerie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:30:09 +0000

Matt,
Would you suggest the same method to print to a file for sending to Mpix or is using the export command a better way to go? Excellent video!