Print, please help

[Lizmo]

I'm currently trying to print pictures using Adorama, and it's cropping off some of my pictures. I'm printing an 8x10, and some of the photos I need printed out haven't been cropped in post-processing.

I'm speaking with the live chat, and they are telling me there is no waya around it? This is stupid....I take a picture, why will it not print like I took it? I don't want to crop some of the picture off and I know professionals don't have white borders.

[Pam111]

pictures are taken to be printed as 3x5 or 4x6, so an 8x10 has to crop some off. you'd have to print an 8x12 to not lose anything

[Lizmo]

Ahhh, 8x12 will work? *goes to try* Thank you!

ETA: is it normal not to have an 8x12 size?

[Lizmo]

Yay, thanks Pam. It worked!

[Pam111]

Great, yeah, you just have to remember that in order to not lose anything you have to stay in proportion to a 3X5. I don't know why frames are usually 8x10. It doesn't really make sense.

[2pups622]

I use snapfish All my prints come out Great looking & there cheap & i never have a problem with cropping When Genovese was around I ordered prints from them & they all were cropped like crazy.

[AndrewF]

Originally Posted by Pam111

Great, yeah, you just have to remember that in order to not lose anything you have to stay in proportion to a 3X5. I don't know why frames are usually 8x10. It doesn't really make sense.

The proportion is actually 2x3, so a 4x6 won't have any cropping (nor will an 8x12. 3x5 will have some cropping, as will 5x7 or 8x10.

[Pam111]

Originally Posted by AndrewF

The proportion is actually 2x3, so a 4x6 won't have any cropping (nor will an 8x12. 3x5 will have some cropping, as will 5x7 or 8x10.

oops, yeah I can't even do math apparently. Haha. I was thinking 4x6 first and then for some reason thought 3x5 was half that, which makes absolutely no sense at all.
Thanks!