Importance of Paper Size in Digital Photo Printing Services
Traditional photos were taken using films, while photos intended to be developed using digital or online services are taken using completely different technologies. Along with this, traditional papers were meant to be cut or cropped or trimmed or those side areas would be kept blank. Traditional paper sizes consists of altogether different aspect ratios than digital photo prints.Options of paper sizes in digital photo printing differs mainly because of the one chief factor and that is aspect ratio. Aspect ratio shows relation between vertical and horizontal measures of photos. Now, the relation is applicable in not only still photos and includes other type and format of photos entailing two dimensional rectangles such as painting, videos and others. While traditional paper sizes would range from 4X6 to 8X11 and even more. Because traditional films use 3:2 aspect ratio, therefore, 4X6 was fount to be ideal fit for traditional photos.
Digital photo printing cannot make use of similar size as digital cameras have different sensors for taking photos with the aspect ratios which is completely foreigner to traditional films. Digital cameras regardless of the mega pixel (from 2 mega pixel to 8 mega pixel) of cameras relate to same aspect ratio, that is 4:3. Therefore, traditional paper sizes will be completely incompatible if will be used to process photos taken through digital cameras or to be processed using digital photo printing services.