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Jan Deaton

9 Years Ago

Print Sizes

Why do print sizes show up as odd sixes? I don't see standard sized, e.g. 5x7, 8x10, 11x14. Instead I see 10x6.33, 12x8, 14x9..
How would you ever find standard mats or frames for these?

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Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

The cool thing about FAA is that they don't have to be standard sizes. Crop as you want to and upload here. Now if you want standard sizes, you can crop them in post processing. I sell non-standard sizes as prints, no frames or matts here, so I suppose folks are getting them matted themselves.

 

Jan Deaton

9 Years Ago

I still don't understand. When I uploaded my pictures the website automatically created all these odd sizes. If a buyer wants put a picture in a matt for a 8x10 picture, it appears he would have to purchase a 12x8 and then cut it himself, losing 2 whole inches of the image. That doesn't make sense. If I crop the image in post I don't know how that affects all the sizes that are offered on the website.

 

Murray Bloom

9 Years Ago

Jan, the sizes on FAA are based on even numbered dimensions on the long side. The width of the short side is based on the aspect ratio (length:width) of your uploaded image. The beauty of this system is that any print can be matted to fit any sized frame, within aesthetic limits. In short, 'standard' sizes are not spoken here. You can upload 'standard' proportions, but keep in mind that 5x7, 11x14 and 16x20 (for example) are all different proportions, and no one upload will satisfy all three. Just crop for the image and let FAA do the framing and matting for the customer. They have a long history of making it all work.

Just look at the recently sold images, bare, matted, and framed.

 

James B Toy

9 Years Ago

Any way you slice it your photos would need to be cropped to fit standard frame sizes because your images are proportionately wider than any standard frame. FAA only prints the full, uncropped image.

 

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