> Almost any graphics editing program will do this, from lowly freewares (eg
> http://www.rocketdownload.com/details/grap/4676.htm) all the way to the
big
> daddies like Photoshop. Usually the dig camera comes with a software that
> will do the cropping along with other things like rotation, etc. I use
> Paintshop Pro (www.jasc.com) because it's loaded with other options for
> tidying up your image before printing.

Thanks Pete,

I have various photo-editing packages on my system and I've been fixing
red-eye etc. and I have also used their cropping tools but it seems to be
trial and error i.e. crop and undo until you have the 3:2 ratio required for
standard prints.  I'm probably not alone in wanting to print my digital
photos professionally and I would hope/imagine there is software out there
that would, as an example, format all of the selected photos from 4:3 to 3:2
cropping the bottom only.

Reg


> Pete
>
> "Reg Siemens" <regsiemens@coldmail.com> wrote in message
> news:NpNOa.9533$V8.7146@news1.mts.net...
> > Sorry if you have answered this question a million times, but I'm new to
> the
> > world of digital photography and just found out the hard way that
digital
> > photos are created in 4:3 format when your standard photo processing
> > facility print is 3:2 (e.g. 6x4, 7x5, 10x8, etc.).  Taking digital
images
> in
> > to have them professionally printed has resulted in the top and bottom
> being
> > cropped.  I like to take my photos with very little head room and
> therefore
> > have found many of my shots are less than ideal when cropped equally
from
> > top and bottom.  What I'd like to do is manipulate the images prior to
> > burning my CD to take to the printer so that I choose how they're
cropped.
> > So the point of this whole message...what is the best software to
> facilitate
> > cropping a whack of images to 3:2 ratio prior to printing?  More often
> than
> > not, I'd like to crop exclusively from the bottom.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help
> >
> > Reg Siemens
> > Winnipeg, Canada
> >
> >
>
>