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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 188520" data-attributes="member: 9521">Zenfolio supports all sizes so I think he means when people download them. Being deep in a large scale printing effort at the moment, I can tell you first hand how annoying it is that most frames (and mattes) are sizes that have NOTHING to do with the actual image. Moreover, when you buy a frame meant for a 5 x 7 image you quickly learn that the &quot;hole&quot; is only 4.5 x 6.5, so not only do you have to make 1 big crop, you then have to make another. By the time you're done putting what once was a beautiful image into a frame it's no longer anything like its original image. And while I'm on this rant I'm going to say only one more thing and be done with it. We (photographers) try very hard to do &quot;in-camera&quot; cropping so that we obtain that beautiful (and fully pixeled) image that we can be proud of. Turns out that's not a good idea if you ever want to show your work or give some away in standard frame sizes. So unless you're willing to learn how to make your own mattes (it's not easy and the tools are not cheap) then stop taking accurate images and instead take sloppy, extra wide images.&nbsp; Okay, rant done. I return you to your regularly scheduled program.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 188520, member: 9521"] Zenfolio supports all sizes so I think he means when people download them. Being deep in a large scale printing effort at the moment, I can tell you first hand how annoying it is that most frames (and mattes) are sizes that have NOTHING to do with the actual image. Moreover, when you buy a frame meant for a 5 x 7 image you quickly learn that the "hole" is only 4.5 x 6.5, so not only do you have to make 1 big crop, you then have to make another. By the time you're done putting what once was a beautiful image into a frame it's no longer anything like its original image. And while I'm on this rant I'm going to say only one more thing and be done with it. We (photographers) try very hard to do "in-camera" cropping so that we obtain that beautiful (and fully pixeled) image that we can be proud of. Turns out that's not a good idea if you ever want to show your work or give some away in standard frame sizes. So unless you're willing to learn how to make your own mattes (it's not easy and the tools are not cheap) then stop taking accurate images and instead take sloppy, extra wide images. Okay, rant done. I return you to your regularly scheduled program..... [/QUOTE]

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