{"id":16115,"date":"2009-11-26T07:22:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T07:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/11\/lightroom-tip-quick-batch-resizing-for-print-output.html"},"modified":"2009-11-26T07:22:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T07:22:43","slug":"lightroom_tip_quick_batch_resizing_for_pri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/26\/lightroom_tip_quick_batch_resizing_for_pri\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom tip: Quick batch resizing for print output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I work at Adobe?  Mainly so I can walk down the hall to browbeat people for tech support in person. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>90-plus percent of the photos I share go only online, so when cropping I tend not to worry about standard print sizes.  Just now, though, I wanted to upload a bunch of 4&#215;6 shots for printing at my parents&#8217; Walmart.  This, I figured, meant going through all the images one by one in Lightroom, checking to see if a crop had been applied, then applying a new 4&#215;6 crop as needed.  Not the end of the world (especially with virtual copies), but not good fun.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately Lightroom PM Tom Hogarty sits down the hall from me, and he offered a better suggestion:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use Lightroom&#8217;s print module to set up a 4&#215;6 page preset, zeroing out the margins<\/li>\n<li>Turn on the &#8220;Zoom to Fill&#8221; and &#8220;Rotate to Fit&#8221; options<\/li>\n<li>Position each image as desired (sliding it within the crop frame)<\/li>\n<li>Print to JPEG<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I hit a bit of a snag at first, not realizing I needed to use Page Setup to create a 4&#215;6 page preset with zero margins.  Once that was done, however, things worked great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/lightroom\/4x6Borderless.zip\">Here&#8217;s a preset<\/a> I created based on the settings I used.  I haven&#8217;t tried it on other machines, so if you try it and hit snags, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I work at Adobe? Mainly so I can walk down the hall to browbeat people for tech support in person. \ud83d\ude09 90-plus percent of the photos I share go only online, so when cropping I tend not to worry about standard print sizes. Just now, though, I wanted to upload a bunch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}