Best fit pricing, borders

rutt

I'd like to be able to choose which size prints to offer based on how well they fit the aspect ratios of the actual images. In particular, I'd like some way to offer a small, medium, large, and giant print of every image in my portfolio based on each image's aspect ratio and have the system choose between, say 16x20 and 16x24 based on aspect ratio so as to get the best fit. Then I could just specify the markup for each of small, medium, large, and giant and be done with it.

While we're at it, what about an option for a border? I'd like to force "no crop" and specify a minimum border. Then whatever my customers ordered would be ready to cut of the excess on the largest borders and frame. In fact if the image were aligned with this border on three sides, it would only remain to cut off the long side.

rutt

Do you guys print from cut sheets or roll paper? If from roll paper, there are even better options involving specifying just the size of the short side and letting the long size be calculated automatically to avoid crop and have equal margins.

Andy

Hi John,
We don't have a way to really do this, other than for you, the pro, to turn OFF aspect ratios that do not fit.

The best way, is to allow all sizes you want, and allow the customer to use the cropping tool:

See our visitor help:
http://www.smugmug.com/visitor-help/digital-prints

And you, the pro, set Proof Delay, so you can adjust crops as needed:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/proof-retouch-replace

http://smugmug.jot.com/WikiHome/ProofDelayForHappyCustomers
http://smugmug.jot.com/WikiHome/ProofDelaySolveCroppingWoes

We don't have borders on the prints, sorry

rutt

Andy, it was a suggestion for a new feature.

Thanks for the workaround, though.

Andy

rutt wrote:

Andy, it was a suggestion for a new feature.

Thanks for the workaround, though.

OK, that goes to the features request thread in SmugMug support...