#Common photo print sizes full#

Few of us have large, gallery-like spaces.

It’s worth thinking about where you want to put your photos. Or you might want a collection of small photos framed together. If it’s on the wall, decide if it will take pride of place as a talking point. And you’ll need to decide if the picture is going on the wall or a table or shelf. There are considerations such as the frame color. It’s important to think of choosing picture frames as part of the whole creative process. You have some choices to make once you’ve chosen your photo and cropped it as necessary.

Common aspect ratios © Trevor Marshall Things to Consider When Choosing Picture Frames You can see how the various formats relate to each other here. That way you can match your photos to the available picture frame sizes. It’s important to know this before you print. With other print sizes and other camera formats, you will need to crop your photos.

#Common photo print sizes full#

The most popular print size, 6 x 4″, matches the aspect ratio of full frame and APS-C cameras. This table shows the aspect ratio of the most common camera formats and papers.Īs you can see, there are some easy formats. The pictures your camera produces do not neatly fit these larger paper formats. If you’ve ever even briefly looked into this, you’ll know there’s a problem. For the math lovers out there, the ratio is actually 1:√2. A4 (and in fact every ‘A’ size paper) is 1:1.41 (roughly 7:5).

US letter has a ratio of 1:1.29 (roughly 13:10). So 6 x 4″ (15 x 10 cm) paper has an aspect ratio of 3:2. This is usually given as the ratio of one side to the other. Your average home printer or dedicated photo printer will happily default to this size.īut the aspect ratio of the paper is even more important than raw size. In North America, the standard is US letter size (8.5 x 11″ / 215.9 x 279.4 mm). Photo printer paper is largely the same across the globe, apart from standard “office” size paper. Understanding Picture Frame Sizes and Paper Size: What You Need to Know