printing crop marks in LR?
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I’d like to print an image at just under A3 (in fact, A3 with 5mm margins), on a sheet of A3+ or A2 paper, or even on a roll. It would be handy if LR could print crop marks at A3, so I can use them to cut the image with its margins (it’s for a competition which strictly insists that prints are submitted on paper which is exactly A3).
Enabling “crop marks” puts the marks at the extremes of the image’s bounding box, which of course on at least one dimension are coterminous with the image itself.
I can’t find a way to do what I want. I’ve been using Lightroom for editing and printing since it was first released and thought I knew it reasonably well, so I’m surprised. Is it possible? Am I missing something obvious (wouldn’t be the first time)?
Jeremy
Select the Print panel. In Page Setup… select the paper you want to print on (A3+ or A2) then reduce the cell size to A3 and add crop marks.
The creation of 5mm margins is a bit trickier. You would need to open your original image in Photoshop and then copy and paste it into an A3 blank sheet with your printer’s ppi (e.g. 300 ppi). You can place guides in Photoshop to create the 5mm margins (they have an active read-out to tell you where they are placed).
The key to this is to have the 5mm margins already in the original image, if you see what I mean, then Lightroom places the crop marks at the edges of the image.
Does this help ?
Thanks, Simon, but not really; that’s a lot more hassle than I need. It’s probably easier for me just to print the image and use a ruler to measure and cut. I’m slightly surprised there’s no way to get it done from within LR’s print module.
Jeremy
Yes, it would be nice if we could make a margin around images from Lightroom. A bit of an oversight.
I posted this query on the lightroomqueen forum and was duly handed a solution. Make the cell exactly A3 size, enable crop marks (which will be at the A3 boundaries) and enable Stroke Border, width 5mm, in white. Bingo. (The stroke width has to be specified in points, but that’s just simple arithmetic.)
Jeremy
That’s much simpler than my proposal. I’ll try and remember this for use in future. Thanks for posting Jeremy.
Found this handy website for anyone that’s interested. This is not spam.
https://www.unitconverters.net/length/millimeter-to-point.htm
Thanks Simon. That’s useful.
Did you get my emails, Chris ?
I tried to post a reply to you in this forum (not this thread) but it failed.
Simon Simpson.
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