Beginner Panorama size/resize

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I’ve created a panorama which is 105x11 cm in size. Ideally I suppose I need the height to be larger as most panoramic print options are say 120x40 or larger.
Is it possible for me to increase height of this to match without affecting the image too much or would I need to print/create using available dimensions only?
 
If you are suggesting stretching it to fit, that would probably look grim.

So your choices might be:

  • print it to 120 wide, which would make it about 12.5 high, and then crop it
  • print it to 40 high and crop it from 380cm down to 120.
  • find a printer who will print from roll stock
  • divide it into 3 pieces and and frame it with joins.

I'm sure others will come up with other suggestions!
 
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If you are suggesting stretching it to fit, that would probably look grim.

So your choices might be:

  • print it to 120 wide, which would make it about 12.5 high, and then crop it
  • print it to 40 high and crop it from 380cm down to 120.
  • find a printer who will print from roll stock
  • divide it into 3 pieces and and frame it with joins.

I'm sure others will come up with other suggestions!

Resizing to 120x12.5 would work but would it look too “thin”?
Printing to 40 high then cropping would lose image width.
No idea what option 3 means or where I would even start with that one.

Photo is of a glacier hence not sure about cropping as don’t want to lose any part of glacier.

Not sure if I can edit some photos to crop out top and bottom of glacier, then stick those with originals to recreate panorama which hopefully would increase height if software can add the edits as the middle part of the glacier.
 
In the past, I've created a massive "image" which consisted of several panoramas of assorted sizes that were all 24" wide since that was the size of the roll. Once I had the big picture, I cut the individual panoramas off for framing. To make life easier for myself, I added a 2mm white stripe between the panoramas..

Although your requirement is slightly different, I'd go for a slightly different but related approach. I'd make the image a plain white one at a "standard" size (You say 120 x 40) and drop your actual picture in at your required size of 105 x 11 cm. Easy enough to then cut the pan out of the larger print, discarding the blank bits of paper.
 
The final option is to print to 380 x 40...

It's not possible to simply make the picture look different. Either you add pixels (by enlarging) or subtract pixels (by cropping). You can't create a 120x40 (3:1) image from 105x11 (10:1) without either taking something away or adding something that isn't there.

I did a silly pano a while ago that was 108" x 12" which is about the same ratio as yours (image on a 16" printer). At smaller sizes it does look very thin. 10cm high is only 4" which makes it quite a small print. It really depends on where the print is going and what you want people to take away from viewing it. At smaller sizes (height wise) detail will be very difficult to pick out and it will be the overall shape and form of the glacier that will likely stand out (impossible to know without seeing the image though)

My suggestion would be to do what Nod suggests. Get it printed to whatever their standard is (120x40) which will give you a 120 x 12 and then crop out the paper when you (presumably) get it mounted.
 
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The final option is to print to 380 x 40...

It's not possible to simply make the picture look different. Either you add pixels (by enlarging) or subtract pixels (by cropping). You can't create a 120x40 (3:1) image from 105x11 (10:1) without either taking something away or adding something that isn't there.

I did a silly pano a while ago that was 108" x 12" which is about the same ratio as yours (image on a 16" printer). At smaller sizes it does look very thin. 10cm high is only 4" which makes it quite a small print. It really depends on where the print is going and what you want people to take away from viewing it. At smaller sizes (height wise) detail will be very difficult to pick out and it will be the overall shape and form of the glacier that will likely stand out (impossible to know without seeing the image though)

My suggestion would be to do what Nod suggests. Get it printed to whatever their standard is (120x40) which will give you a 120 x 12 and then crop out the paper when you (presumably) get it mounted.

Would the method Nod is suggesting not still only give me a 105x11 image but with a border of 15x29?
I ideally don’t want a thin panorama hence am trying to see options of how I could hopefully increase. I can’t really print a 300x30 size one to hang in the house much as I’d love to. Lol
 
I ideally don’t want a thin panorama

Sadly, the problem is that you shot it at a "thin" ratio of 10:1. The only way to "thicken" it is to stretch it or add something that isn't there. If you want to get to a more standard 3:1 ratio that's a lot (too much IMO) of stretching, or adding.
 
Would the method Nod is suggesting not still only give me a 105x11 image but with a border of 15x29?
I ideally don’t want a thin panorama hence am trying to see options of how I could hopefully increase. I can’t really print a 300x30 size one to hang in the house much as I’d love to. Lol


Yes but at that aspect ratio, it'll always look long and thin! I reckon the only option that would make it look less thin would be to split it into 2 52.5 x 11 sections and hang them side by side.
 
I reckon that would look really good as wide and as tall as you can find a space for it.
 
if only size could work!!. I did manage to size it as 105x20, which didn't look too bad and then put a white border around it to get it to 120x40, which may work with the cropping option as suggested above by Nod.
 
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