Placment of a photo onto a mug

[Justin]

OK, someone sends me a 4" x 6" photo that they want as a full wrap image (21cm x 9cm)

I can't crop anything out without losing too much of the subject. They don't want any of my super duper frames as this will detract from a nice photo.

Short of placing it as large as poss (12cm) in the middle of the mug face, does anyone have any other ideas?

I know I could put a single colour frame or similar to fill the space but nothing looks right. I could just stretch out of shape, it'll look awful but full-wrap will work a treat!

Appreciate any clever ideas

[Kaz]

Put the image on twice?

[Greensleeves]

or you can use content aware in cs4 but even that is limited. i would go down the road of a second picture

[Justin]

Put the image on twice?

Yeah, this was an option. They've decided to run with a single photo but it'll look a bit lost

Didn't expect any miracle answers but it opens up the question of how you display single/multiple images. The frames are great to help with this and I use Lumapix Fotofusion all the while.

[Justin]

or you can use content aware in cs4 but even that is limited. i would go down the road of a second picture

Not used this before

[swimwivsquid]

Maybe you should give them a lesson on formats and show them the best option that you think will look right. We used to get this a lot when we had our pro lab... some designers who should have known better couldn't understand why they would lose some of their image when cropped to the format that they wanted. Sometimes you have to be an educator as well...... Good luck!

[Paul]

would you post this image Justin? So I can have a go with it I may have idea

[Andrew]

Depends what the image is of and how it is composed really as to what can be done with it.

[JSR]

In this situation, I do dummy samples and email to the customer.

A dummy sample is just the photo printed to regular paper and stuck to the mug with tape. The customer can see what the two options would look like (either with two photos, or just the one) without wasting a mug.

[Justin]

Maybe you should give them a lesson on formats

I do try and make sure they understand the sizes needed for mugs but the pics keep on coming Trying to get them to provide 'ready' artwork....that way they can have the blooming problem!