September is the return of children to school, but also the selection of photos taken during the holidays and call prints. Help, How to choose which format prints, on receipt to avoid unpleasant surprises photos. We have also handy calculator that will facilitate the implementation of the ideal print - regardless of whether this is a photo album or on exhibition.

It would seem that there is nothing easier than ordering prints: just select the format, specify the type of paper - and you're done. Unfortunately, if we executed a popular photo, digital compact, upon receipt of orders to meet us can dishonest surprise: a picture can be "cut off" from the top and bottom or sides will be white stripes. Malfunctioning machines performing prints? No - the reason is quite different. The primary cause of such problems are different proportions of photos of modern compact numbers and, until recently, commonly used in amateur photography analog cameras to film type 135 (35 mm). These photographs record the first frame of the proportions 4:3, and using frame to the proportions of 3:2.

The vast majority of the popular compact digital camera performs the image only on proportions 4:3 aforementioned problem it follows that much of the machinery used in carrying out prints, but adapted to read photos from memory cards, prints only the highlights in the "analog" format on proportions 3:2. If you want to get prints quickly and we do not have time to search better equipped photolab, we must rely on the possibility of the machine in question match the frame aspect ratio.
The first function is usually available FILL-IN, made in the image in 4:3 format so that it filling paper proportions 3:2. This is done through a balanced frame cut from the bottom and top.

The machine can automatically producing prints on image, so that match the proportion of photographic paper. In the case of operations FILL-IN is to cut through the images from below and from the top of the second option is to match the type of FIT-IN, of the previously mentioned photos rescaled with 4:3 aspect ratio, in its entirety, it fell to a classic paper on proportions 3:2 - the result is white stripes on the sides of the image. Match the proportion of the frame type FIT-IN effect of the addition of white bars on the sides of the image. Both of these methods are highly imperfect. The first image mechanically symmetrically on both sides, without taking into account whether a particular place in the frame is not essential element of the image. The second gives us a "free" completely unnecessary white stripes, and is a total waste normal photographic paper. For this reason, if only we have a moment of time, in graphical images that accurately reflect the proportions of its print format, we intend to order, see photo.