Open new document at 8x10 and just paste your layout on there, then you will have to trim off the extra white...you can't change the size of your LO to a rectangle or it will be distorted or you would have to loose some on the sides...kind of like fitting a square peg into a rectangle hole!! LOL
It sure would be nice if Walmart would print just any size we wanted...like I wanted 3x7's for my daughters openhouse announcements...but had to go with 4x6!!

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yes, what Haley said--Open a NEW document that is 8X10 (with the same PPI as your layouts). Resize your original layout to 8x8, and copy/paste it onto that new document. DO NOT try to simply resize your original 12x12 layout to 8x10. You will change the aspect ratio and it will look very strange.

Yes, I imagine it will be more expensive for you to do 1 hr, but it just depends how bad you want the layouts for the party.

Sorry I know i am jumping into this discussion late but just wanted to know if this is always the right way? I have some 12x12 LO's that I want to re-size for a 6x6 album which means they will get printed as 6x8's.

Can someone just confirm that first I make a 6x8 template and then resize by doing the following:

Image > Resize > Print Options set to 6x6 inches, 300 pixels/inch and that is all?

Then copy and paste the 6x6 image to the 6x8 template? Is that it? Is it better to have the white strips for cutting off at the top/bottom or on the sides or should it make no difference?

Any help appreciated as I suddenly don't have time for doing a test run due to DH heading overseas at short notice.

Thanks

Jo

Where are you getting these printed? Just a curiosity. I don't know of a 6x8 print size (but I can be clueless a lot-lol!) . Standard is usually 4x6, 5x7, 8x10--which would be what you would have to use (the 8x10) to fit a 6x6 print if you can't get specialty prints.

To answer your question, though--YES, what you said is correct. Copy your resized file to the new canvas--use "paste as new layer." Just make sure you have the new canvas at the same PPI as the file you are resizing. So , for instance, 330 PPI and 6x8 inches for the new canvas, and 300 PPI and 6x6 for the image in question. Once you copy/paste, save that new canvas as a JPEG and it should give it a white background (or you can always make the canvas white to begin with)

Let us know how it turns out. Too bad you can't find a place to print 6x6 I use smugmug and they have 5x5, 8x8, 10x10 and 12x12 as specialty options. No 6x6 though.

Thanks PixChick!!!

Just to answer your question, I am in Australia (not sure where you are) and use Harvey Norman's for my printing as they are really close by, their 6x8 price is only 99 cents so it makes it quite affordable to do an album as a gift in that size..

I have re-sized one LO now and have white strips down the side and the image info looks right too so THANKS!!!

Jo

Hope it works out!! Is 6x8 standard in Australia? Guess you learn something new every day, huh?