So I took the images there, found that it couldn't auto-resize my images for me, and had to do some MAJOR cropping. I'm not terribly pleased with the results so I'm going for a round 2. I learned a good deal about the costco system, enough to know that everyone was right to say that all processing and resizing should be done ahead of time, and that Costco should simply print the final image to all the specifications I define. I learned my expensive 150 dollar lesson.
I wanted to print a couple canvases at 16x48 and 16x32.
That said, I opened up Photoshop, created a 16x48 canvas at 300ppi, and fit in the image I wanted to print. Then I uploaded it to costco, created a 16x48, and found out that my images were still too wide! I'm losing about 5%-10%, and its not acceptable because I already cropped the frames as I wanted them (including accounting for wrap around space). The height was perfect though. Any ideas/suggestions?
Edit:
I read that costco might actually be 320ppi (Depends on the actual printer costco uses) and tried to resize the 16x48 and the 32x16 for 320ppi, which would technically made the image appear on a smaller area for the same frame size, but the costco tool still wants to crop out an extra 5% on the horizontal dimension.
Any suggestion on what I need to do so the
uploaded image fits the frame exactly without room to crop? Am I setting this up in Photoshop Wrong? I'm looking at guides online and I feel like I'm doing exactly what they are suggesting.
Here are the image parameters after I save them to jpg:
16x32: 300ppi at 9600x4800
16x32: 320 ppi at 10240x5120
16x48: 300ppi at 15360x5120
16x48: 320 ppi at 14400x5120
Edit:
Figured it out; you have to print the wrap around as well and include it at 300ppi. Now I'm good to go
http://www.costcophotocenter.com/Help/#/topic/product-information---canvas-prints
That took too much time to figure out. Also looks like the canvas isn't printed any higher than 150 ppi, so giving it 300ppi source material is somewhat of a waste because the canvas material itself probably has some texture that reduces the effective resolution of what I'm seeing.