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Hi there, my name is Brennan Caverhill, and I'm going to show you how to crop and image
to 8x10, and export it at the correct resolution to print. The first thing that I do is choose
an image, and I right click on the thumbnail of the image in the filmstrip, and I create
a virtual copy. This way I can edit this new image for print and I'll leave the original
image untouched. Next I select the crop overlay tool, I can click this button in the top right,
or hit R as a shortcut. I change the aspect ration from as-shot to 8x10. If you are going
to print it 5x7 or 4x6 or 4x3 you can change the aspect ratio here, or customize it. So
I'll choose 8x10 and you'll see the crop ratio changes. And then I click within the crop
square, and I can drag the image around, or I can even resize the crop overlay. I'm going
to take it to, actually make it a little bit bigger because I'd like to capture some of
that lens flare. And I might back her up a little, so that this flower comes in at the
cross hairs of the rule of thirds. And maybe I'll drop it down just a little bit so that
the sky-to-land ratio more approximates the rule of thirds as well. Once I'm happy with
the crop image I select done. I might brighten it up a little bit, ahhh, maybe add a little
bit of contrast. And uhh, maybe a little bit of clarity, and increase the vibrance a little.
Just some little subtle edits to make the image pop for printing. And then, when I think
it's all ready, I go file, export, and now I have to do a little bit of work. First I
have to choose where I want this image to go. I am going to choose for now my desktop,
I'll just send the file to the desktop, so it's an easy place for me to put onto a USB
key and take to the store to print. So I'll select that folder. If I wanted to put it
in a subfolder, for example, 8x10 to print, then I could check this little box. If I didn't
want it to go into a subfolder, I would just leave that unchecked. I could rename the file
as well, but I'm not going to bother. Video settings I don't have to worry about. For
the file settings, I don't want to limit the file size, I want it to be the highest possible
quality. So I'll leave that at 100, for the jpeg quality. Image resizing. Here's where,
if I wanted to shrink the image, for a website, or blog, then I could resize it so that it
fits that blog perfectly. But I'm not going to resize the image because it's already an
8x10. And I'm going to leave the resolution at 300dpi. So that way it will be the highest
possible quality for printing. If I wanted to I could resize it to 10 inches on the long
edge, at 300dpi, and actually come to think of it that might be the best way to do it.
Because then this will be exported at the perfect image size for an 8x10 on the long-edge,
I can choose width and height if I wanted to, but it's easier just to do long edge,
at 300dpi. And I'm not going to bother sharpening it, I will remove the location info, but it
doesn't really matter, and I'm not adding a watermark or doing any post-processing.
So really most importantly on export I choose: where is it going to go, am I renaming it,
what's the quality, and what's the size. I can also add watermarks and do some processing
and a few other things, but for printing purposes this is the best option. I click export, you
see the progress in the top left, it dings when it's done, and there's my new photo that
just popped up in Picasa, which I also have open. So now if I downsize the window, here's
my 8x10 to print folder, double-click on that to open it up, and there's my image ready
to print. If I were to zoom in on it, you can see that it's pretty good quality, that's
only at 70%, and you can zoom out and check the aspect ratio. Looks pretty good!