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The other way to do it is to resize the photo, so you see white edges on the left and right. Now while that keeps the whole of your original photo, it adds ugly bars. Most people donât like that, so printing shops prefer the crop option. Your 4:3 photo resized in a 3:2 ratio print.Note the white edges on each side.he reason your photos are printing with the top and bottom cut off (cropped out) is because the aspect ratio for a point-and-shoot camera image is 4:3 whereas the aspect ratio for a printed photo is 3:2.
Printing at 300dpi will allow an 11x14 print. If you shot at a lower resolution, say 1600x1200 you could only print a 4x5 at 300dpi. Since you are wanting to print at an A4 (8.3x11.7, 210x297mm) size you might get acceptable results printing at 200dpi.