Resizing Images for Printing and Mounting

This may well be wrong, because I worked it out myself......all comments and ideas welcome.

For the BPS competitions and for the Burton Hospital Exhibition we are using a maximum mount size of 50cm x 40cm.  Obviously images can be any size within that mount and any orientation, but this is just one way of resizing to optimize framing.

Say we have a portrait orientation image and we want our mount borders to be 7cm wide at the top and left and right sides and then 8cm at the bottom border, which justs lifts the image and works better optically.

In Photoshop select the crop tool and set the width to 27cm and the height to 36cm, this makes the image 1cm bigger than the cut out of the mount allowing 0.5cm overlap on each side. Set the Resolution to 300DPI 

To return to free cropping afterwards just select Clear.

Then I go to Image, Canvas Size and select inches as my units.

I select 12inches by 16inches as the Canvas size with an extension colour of white.
(16x12in is the same price as A3 at DS Colour Labs)

I'm then ready to Edit, Convert to colour profile which I've downloaded from their web site, this is DS Colour Frontier DP2 Lustre, for the matt finish. And obviously Save As ready to send by email.

For 6cm borders top, left, right and 7cm bottom,
Landscape crop 39cm wide by 28cm height
Portrait crop 29cm wide by 38cm height.

For 7cm borders top, left, right and 8cm bottom.
Landscape crop 37cm wide by 26cm height
Portrait crop 27cm wide by 36cm height

Calke Revisited

Seems a long time ago that we went with Bill doesn't it?  Remember they were shedding their antlers then and we saw the white one that had literally just lost one, unbelievable that they grow a new set from scratch every year.

 

I'm visiting Burton Hospital tomorrow to have a chat with them about our exhibition.

Sorry its taken so long, I'll let you know how I get on.

Cathi Poole's Rheas

 It's a strange feeling when a bird, standing a metre in front of you, looks you straight in the eye. Just waying you up for any sign of fear or that attractive bit of fringe on your scarf.

We'd been looking forward to seeing Cathi's birds and weren't disappointed. These large (huge) flightless birds have been hand reared and are incredibly tame. They have the most amazing spherical eyes and must have 340 degree vision, seemingly missing the 20 degrees directly in front of their line of sight.











There are other rare breeds knocking around from West Indian whistling ducks to Soay sheep.  I think I could have got a better sheep picture but he had that 'Come on, step over the fence, make my day,' look in his eye.

 

From Wiki:
Rheas are large, flightless birds with gray-brown plumage, long legs and long necks, similar to an ostrich. Males of R. americana can reach 1.50 metres (4.9 ft), and weigh up to 40 kilograms (88 lb). Their wings are large for a flightless bird and are spread while running, to act like sails Unlike most birds, rheas have only three toes. Their tarsus has horizontal plates on the front of it. They also store urine separately in an expansion of the cloaca.

We were too near the sea to resist a trip and set off for Hornsea. The East coast never ceases to amaze me. Low, brown waves and pebbley shores. Amusement arcades and the best fish and chips fried in lard. Returning over the Humber Bridge. A very memorable day. Thanks, Cathi and Harry, Sausage and Frilly.