Re-sizing/printing photos to locket size - help

[Steven W]

I've bought a locket for my wife for Christmas, assuming it would be easy enough for a high street photographer to shrink my photos to fit it. It seems not, the smallest size they do is still too large.

I don't have a photographic printer at home, so i wondered if anyone knew another way I could get this done.

The locket size is 1.5 cm height x 2 cm width and the locket is oval shaped.

[kopite]

I dont know how you`d go about doing something like that but what about taking photos from a bit of a distance so that the part of the image you want will fit in the locket?

[GSte]

Use photoshop to shrink it down to the size you want, put a few copies on a white background then just get the whole lot printed out.....

[Steven W]

Use photoshop to shrink it down to the size you want, put a few copies on a white background then just get the whole lot printed out.....

Do you know what size (in pixels) I'd have to make the white background and what size (in pixels) I'd need to shrink the photo to?

[Whiternoise]

Do you know what size (in pixels) I'd have to make the white background and what size (in pixels) I'd need to shrink the photo to?

This should be relatively easy if the photo editing package you're using has a template for a standard photo (i dunno what they are off the top of my head, but say 5x7").

You just pick the canvas size that corresponds to a normal snap and get it printed off - you can work out roughly how big your resize needs to be by cutting out a bit of paper to the print size.

[Steven W]

This should be relatively easy if the photo editing package you're using has a template for a standard photo (i dunno what they are off the top of my head, but say 5x7").

You just pick the canvas size that corresponds to a normal snap and get it printed off - you can work out roughly how big your resize needs to be by cutting out a bit of paper to the print size.

Thanks

[TAKTAK]

use the scale tool in GIMP (free-er than photoshop [], just lock the axis' together to scale it properly), scale it down, paste into word (or openoffice) print it out, try again a few times to get it perfectly fitting, then get a proper one printed by the pros

[kalniel]

I've bought a locket for my wife for Christmas, assuming it would be easy enough for a high street photographer to shrink my photos to fit it. It seems not, the smallest size they do is still too large.

I don't have a photographic printer at home, so i wondered if anyone knew another way I could get this done.

The locket size is 1.5 cm height x 2 cm width and the locket is oval shaped.

Do you know what size (in pixels) I'd have to make the white background and what size (in pixels) I'd need to shrink the photo to?

You can work it out - ask the printer what dpi they print at - online shops usually print it at 300dpi - which is dots (pixels) per inch (in 1d, oddly), so you need slightly less than that width-wise and just over half that height-wise. Alternatively if you use a photo editor like The GIMP or photoshop then just set the dpi to 300 (don't scale that bit) THEN scale your picture to the desired size (give it the cm/inches measurement). Cut and paste into a new white 5x7" picture.

Or, host the pic somewhere and ask one of us to do it all for you.

[colmo]

If you do this for multiple copies of the same image sized to fit a standard print size such as 6" x 4", you can do very cheap passport photos this way.

[Bobster]

remember, if you are using a high st photo printing place to shrink your image by 5% as they enlarge the print by 5 to make sure you don't get a white boarder around the photo..

[kalniel]

If you do this for multiple copies of the same image sized to fit a standard print size such as 6" x 4", you can do very cheap passport photos this way.

I thought you had to have them taken at certified machines - didn't know you could photochop them yourself.

[Bobster]

oh and DPI isn't PPI but we won't get into that now..

[kalniel]

oh and DPI isn't PPI but we won't get into that now..

Oh I know, but it's as good as for this purpose.

[Bobster]

I thought you had to have them taken at certified machines - didn't know you could photochop them yourself.

no photochopping allowed, however you can put multiple images onto a page as passport size and get them printed (if you follow the rules about the image it won't get rejected)

[colmo]

no photochopping allowed, however you can put multiple images onto a page as passport size and get them printed (if you follow the rules about the image it won't get rejected)

What 'e said.

If you're really struggling, just upload the original image somewhere and one of us can resize it (and resharpen it - really helps when rescaling images) to the requisite dimensions.

[Steven W]

What 'e said.

If you're really struggling, just upload the original image somewhere and one of us can resize it (and resharpen it - really helps when rescaling images) to the requisite dimensions.

Would you mind? That would be a great help, I've had a mess around and despite the advice I'm kinda guessing what I have to do.

There's two images, I'll upload them and post the link.