BayPhoto Prints through Smugmug

B643B643 Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
edited January 30, 2012 in SmugMug Support
I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this. Is there anyway to eliminate the cropping factor when ordering a print from Bay Photo through Smug ? If a customer orders a photo, they want the whole photo, not one that is cropped. Several customers have ordered a photo not knowing it was going to cropped. I would like to eliminate the crop factor all together. A friend of mine orders his photos directly from Bay and has told me he doesn't recall having this issue.

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  • FlounderFlounder Registered Users Posts: 121 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2012
    Hi,

    Yeah, cropping can be a little sneaky. When you put a photo into the shopping cart and select a print size, they sometimes don't match. When this happens there is a red box that appears. This red box shows what is going to be cropped off. Something has to go, otherwise, it's like trying to stuff a 5x7 into a 4x6 frame. It just won't work. So there must be cropping in these cases and we leave that all up to you. Here is information on how our crop tool works:

    http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93292-cropping

    If you don't want to lose any of your image and you are sure you want that print size, you can order the photo using the "no-crop" feature. This feature puts white border on two of the sides in order to keep all of the picture and maintain the print size you want.

    Alternatively you can only allow printing of certain images in sizes that won't require cropping. Let's say the image is in a 2:3 aspect ratio, then print sizes that fall within that aspect ratio won't need cropping. Any print sizes that aren't in that aspect ratio will require cropping though.

    If you have any questions or problems, please let us know.

    Nick Wilson
    SmugMug Support Hero
  • FlounderFlounder Registered Users Posts: 121 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2012
    Hi,

    I kind of jumped the gun on sending my previous post, please pardon me.

    We also suggest that our Pro users take full advantage of our Proof Delay feature. Proof Delay allows you to review the order before it's sent to print, make corrections and changes to the cropping as well as to the color correction settings for the order. You can also replace photos with your edits while the order is in proof delay.

    For more info on this, please see the links below which would eliminate any problems in the future:

    http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93355-proof-and-retouch
    http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/84523-proof-delay

    Please let us know if we can be of further assistance :)

    -Nick Wilson
    SmugMug Support Hero
  • timmyster8timmyster8 Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited January 29, 2012
    Flounder wrote: »
    Hi,

    I kind of jumped the gun on sending my previous post, please pardon me.

    We also suggest that our Pro users take full advantage of our Proof Delay feature. Proof Delay allows you to review the order before it's sent to print, make corrections and changes to the cropping as well as to the color correction settings for the order. You can also replace photos with your edits while the order is in proof delay.

    For more info on this, please see the links below which would eliminate any problems in the future:

    http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93355-proof-and-retouch
    http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/84523-proof-delay

    Please let us know if we can be of further assistance :)

    -Nick Wilson
    SmugMug Support Hero

    I no longer see Bay Photo as an option on my "Set Price" page. What happened?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2012
    timmyster8 wrote: »
    I no longer see Bay Photo as an option on my "Set Price" page. What happened?

    Hi, please write our heroes with a specific gallery link so we can best help
    http://help.smugmug.com thanks.
  • timmyster8timmyster8 Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited January 29, 2012
    Andy wrote: »
    Hi, please write our heroes with a specific gallery link so we can best help
    http://help.smugmug.com thanks.

    Just did, but didn't know if I was supposed to actually add the link to my edit price list page? If it is safe to do so let me know and I will. Thanks Andy :D
  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2012
    timmyster8 wrote: »
    Just did, but didn't know if I was supposed to actually add the link to my edit price list page? If it is safe to do so let me know and I will. Thanks Andy :D
    A link to the specific gallery in question is best. We can get to other pages from there if needed.
    Sebastian
    SmugMug Support Hero
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