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Question from Kim: “I feel like I am doing something wrong when I am ordering prints, especially wallets. Do I need to be sizing all of my jpg files in Photoshop to be the size of print I am ordering? That seems like so much extra work but that is the only way I can get wallets to look correctly because of the die cut lines…I just had a client not happy with their pics becase they didnt look like the ones in their gallery, because of cropping from 8×10’s.”
Melissa: I would just explain crop ratios to the client. There’s nothing you can do. If they choose a different size, it WILL look different than what’s in their gallery. Not your fault.
Melissa: And no, you don’t have to size your files. Just crop in ROES.
Christy: I use Bay Photo and ROES shows the crop for rounded die cut. If clients don’t want image cropped, you can choose to not fit image to size and not cut wallets.
Tom: I explain to my clients that 8×10 will look different from a 5×7 or 11×14. It’s how it is all cropped. I usually do the crop when I place the order.
Jenna: I suggest to my clients printing 8×12’s instead of 8×10’s because of crop ratio.
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