J O H N  A L L A N wrote:
Are you locking your crop to a fixed ratio or just doing whatever with each axis?

I usually just crop out what I don't want. Are you suggesting that I crop it to a fix ratio? if so, how can I maintain the previous ratio by resizing the image?

Steven Burnette Retouch wrote:
The first thing that came to mind after reading your comments is that you may not have adjusted printer settings for a full bleed printing. The other thing is to make sure that the new cropped image fits the full size of the paper that it is to be printed on.

To make it simple, if for example your paper size is 8.5x11:  Make a new document in Photoshop at 8.5x11 and 300 dpi, move a copy of the image being cropped to the new blank canvas of the 8.5x11 document that you just created. Hold the shift key (to keep proportions) while pulling a corner of image and fit the image in the blank canvas space as you would like. Just stretch beyond the borders the areas you don't want printed. Click on File >Print... > choose paper size > look for and click "print settings" > look for something that says something like "borders" and make sure "None" is selected > print document

Hopefully that works for you

Thanks

flashart wrote:
change the size of the paper. then fit image

Thanks for the tip.

J Landry Photography wrote:

I usually just crop out what I don't want. Are you suggesting that I crop it to a fix ratio? if so, how can I maintain the previous ratio by resizing the image?

Yes. Otherwise you'll run in to the problem you are having.
Either crop to your paper size/ratio, or crop to a ratio that will permit you to lose the least objectionable portion of the image for the paper sizes you shoot for.