What do you call this thing?

Words are failing me again.

It's a tool. We used to use it in high school when we'd take a grease pencil and mark on a print our cropping instructions, and then the printer would crop and insert the photo into the newspaper/yearbook.

It's like two L-shaped rulers connected together, so that you could crop the photo to the size of the space, but you had leeway within the print to crop tighter or looser ....



I want one. Do they still sell them? And where?

a cropper! :D
I believe you can find what you are looking for by clicking on the B&H link on this site and doing a search for "Delta cropper."

Megan

or a scaleograph....

Megan

They are called cropping L's.
Not sure if they are still available.
Graphics Arts store may have them.

PFitz

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Originally Posted by kellybean

Words are failing me again.

It's a tool. We used to use it in high school when we'd take a grease pencil and mark on a print our cropping instructions, and then the printer would crop and insert the photo into the newspaper/yearbook.

It's like two L-shaped rulers connected together, so that you could crop the photo to the size of the space, but you had leeway within the print to crop tighter or looser ....



I want one. Do they still sell them? And where?

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scaleograph! Thank you! I found one. :)