shounen-ai <shounen-ai@shounen-ai.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:48:46 -0800, curious guy <curious_guy@hush.com>
>wrote:
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>>4s00th <4s00th@hushmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>If I might, there were a group of pix that were captured from video
>>>with the wrong aspect ratio. There were loud complaints that I'm not
>>>certain constitute "discussion."
>>
>>I have loaded one picture (DSC00655.jpg) into PhotoImpact 4.2. It had
>>dimensions of 1,680 by 1,050. I tried reducing the width by several
>>different amounts. A 50 percent reduction makes it looks about right.
>>Do you know if 50 percent is the correct correction factor? Do you
>>want me to upload the 50 percent picture?
>
>The problem is a matter of aspect ratio, not percentage. In fact, if
>you were attempting to reduce by a percentage, then it should have
>turned out okay as a the same percentage should have been applied to
>both of the dimensions keeping them in the same ratio.
DSC00655.jpg is a picture I downloaded from this newsgroup. It was
distorted when I got it. I unchecked the "maintain aspect ratio"
button in PhotoImpact 4.2 so that I could make the picture look
correct. I found that reducing the width by 50 percent while NOT
reducing the height at all made it look correct.
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