"krishnananda" wrote in message
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In article ,
Peter Chant wrote:

Chaps,

what are your thoughts? What do you do?

I want to print out a picture or two to put in a clip frame, however,
image
is square (MF group!) and I fancy keeping it square. The frame I am
using
is not. Therefore in software (not too good at traditional printing) I
produced a thin white ink line around the image followed by a dark red
border (to match a rug in the room but that is not important for this
discussion).

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Fraid I can't help you directly as the above link is broken. In medium
format I shoot 6x6, 6x7, 6x9, and 6x12. Traditional black and white.

For square shots I generally use a vertical format paper, such as
11"x14". I either center the image on the page with wide borders top and
bottom and skinny borders left and right. I always use a ground-out
negative carrier (or a glass holder) and print with a thin black border
around the image, sometimes including the edge markings of the negative.

How this translates to digital printing I have no idea, but if you fix
the link I'd be glad to look at your stuff.

--k

Here's an easy way to optically print thin black borders without dealing
with modifying neg holders....
Assume you are printing 8x8" on 11x14" paper. Take a piece of 11x14 opaque
paper or card stock and cut an 8x8 hole in it (the "mask"). Assuming you
want to black border to be 1/8" thich, cut 1/8" off each side of the cut-out
piece (or 1/4" from two adjacent sides!).
Compose the image in the 8x8 hole, and print with the mask in place. Remove
the negative from the enlarger, put the cutout in the center of the opening
and weight it down (set the grain focuser on it). Expose for about the same
amount of time as the image. Process normally.