Image Sizing

[Hank Fanelli]

Can't understand how to size for final print at standard paper sizes. I shoot digital images in as high a resolution as my camera will allow. After cropping I tried to re-size an image to print boarder to boarder on 4X6 paper stock and get an image with white boarders on either side. Help.

[ken1]

Does your printer have the ability to print borderless?

What are the exact steps that you take to resize the image?

[Vasni]

Welcome to the Village!
The crop has to correspond to the desired print dimensions, or a ratio thereof. If your target is 4x6 and you want borderless prints, the crop should be 4x6, 6x9, 8x12, 2x3, or any other dimensions that result in a ratio of 1.5 when the larger dimension is divided by the smaller.

In the case of desired 5x7 prints, the crop ratio is 1.4; for 8x10 prints, the ratio is 1.25.

Vasni