Subj : Re: Why do their heads look too narrow, or wide To : All From : Nospam@needed.invalid Date : Sun Jan 01 2017 10:19 pm From: Paul Subject: Re: Why do their heads look too narrow, or wide micky wrote: > Is there an active newsgroup that's good for graphics, art, or computer > graphics? > > On the theory there isn't, I'll tell you my question. > > I belong to an organization that has membership cards, and last year > they added photos to the membership cards. > > If I wanted my picture added, they insisted that I send in a high > resolution photo, even though the picture is only about 1" square. Does > this make sense? They said their card-making place said to insist. > > I didn't have a hi-def picture, just one from scanning a passport > pictuer on my home scanner. > > At any rate, when the card came, the picture looked great, the color > looked great, there was plenty of detail (to the extent one can see that > in 1" square) but my head was squeezed together horizontally. Some > people might have a head as narrow, but I don't. > > I don't see how this could be related to high definition but otoh, we > have two anomalies and I don't want to assume it's a coincidence. Might > they be related? > > Finally, they sent me a brochure with some of their more hot-shot > members, and maybe 20% of them look like their heads are squeezed too. > Of course I don't know them and maybe they really look like that. One > guy looks like his head has been widened!! > > I found a picture of two women in this brochure and an earlier letter. > She actually looked normal in both of them, and were it not for the ones > that look abnormal, I'd not know which is the accurate picture, I think. > > What's going on? > > Should I tell them? I think the full color glossy brochure cost a lot > of money. If I knew they were going to reprint it, I'd tell them before > they did it, but I don't know and I won't know. WRT membership cards, > it's not like it really matters if our heads are distorted. Mostly I'd > like to understand how it happened. If the software simply resizes the entire image and uses it, then the aspect ratio affects whether a circle looks like a circle. If the person running the software, crops the section they want and assumes square pixels, the heads might all come out looking normal. If the software is known to resize the entire image, then you ask whether it wants, say, 4:3 (1024x768) or something. And prepare the image file and make sure it matches those dimensions. The issue can be fixed, if the submitter knows in advance, how brain-dead the software is. Paul --- ViaMAIL!/WC v2.00 * Origin: ViaMAIL! - Lightning Fast Mailer for Wildcat! (1:261/20) .