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Well i still cant get my damn Borders to print out properly, i like a lot of my pics and the borders seem to set them off nicely. I have tired to print the bloody thing things and i always get the ends cut of and sometimes the to and bottom of the border dont fit on the print that i want no mater what size i try and print at.

I have tried resizing the image, still no fix and resized to paper size and still no go i know there is something i am doing wrong and well has got me beet. was told that you can make up a border then drag the pic into it, but that is here say. If this was available coo would be great and i guess some young whipper snapper from high school could fix in know time but it has got this big dummy Beet.

All i want to do is print the bloody picture with the border on it.LOl
is this so hard to do??? Photoshop ARGHhhhhhh
John
BBJ

John, take a deep breath fella, we can get you through this.....

Are you trying to use decorative borders, or a white border around the edge like we used to get on prints?

Hi Greg, Here is a link to my pics and well i use this border on near all of my pics i put on web, but i also would like to be able to print them looking like this as well.
http://www.darwinonline.org/displayimage.php?album=1686&pos=34
have a look and see what i mean.

OK John I see.

The dimensions of your paper will probably be different to your picture (including the frame) - that is to say that if the picture fits on the paper perfectly on the short side, the long side of the picture may be shorter than the long side of the paper. So you will need to trim the print after printing.

Do you have a trimmer?

You will probably never get a print that fits perfectly on an A4 paper, some trimming is nearly always required.

Have you also tried using printing software, such as that which comes with Canon printers? It really helps. What sort of printer do you have?

Hi Greg no i dont have a trimmer but can do with sissors and friend has a guillitine thingy, but i dont mind having to trim as long as i could get the whole picture with the borders printen on the paper only way i can do that is to print with a border,which is ok on the canon. I have been having a prob with it lately prints 1/2 a pic spits it out starts to print on next sheet and spits it out, have to uninstall and reinstall drivers.
But anyhow if i take these pics to the shop to get printen like using the machine at K-mart or Hardley Normal it cuts some of my borders off.

oh yeh sorry Greg it's a canon MP 360 scanner printer all in 1.

John, The problem with getting prints done at the shop is that they would have their machine set up to get as much image on the paper as possible, with no bits to be trimmed off. I don't think there is much you can do, except have you finished item in exactly the same proportions as the paper they will print to.

Not sure what might be wrong with your printer. Do you have the latest drivers etc? Are all settings right?

john
i put borders on most of my pics and i use a resize action eg: save as a4 portrait
a4 landscape
6x4 landscape
6x4 portrait

and a lot of other sizes as well if you email me robw25@internode.on.net
i will send it to you and you can use it or toss it

cheers rob

OOPS ! john i took it for granted that you use ps ....... sorry

cheers rob

Thanks Rob, no probs mate i have both proggies well 3 of them actually photoshop 7 + CS +elements+ pantshop pro 8 but use 7 mostly and paintshop when i wanna make something cos i too dum to do in photoshop.LOL
Email on the way mate.
Thanks