I've seen many posts in the discussion groups regarding distorted images when
displayed in Photo Gallery when I started to search for other people with my
problem, BUT all of them deal with faded, fussy, and poorly rendered images.
None of them talked abou my problem.
I've gone through a several week effort of scanning in family photos for
digital archiving purposes. After scanning them, I've carefully cropped
them. As a result many of the JPG images have non-standard pixel proportions
(aspect ratio), for example 473 x 673. When many of these non-standard JPGs
are displayed in Photo Gallery, Slide-Show, Media Center, as both full images
AND as thumbnails they are visually squeezed horizontally making all the
people in the pictures look like they have lost 50 pounds :-) Now as much as
I wish I were 50 pounds lighter, I want it to be the result of REAL weight
loss, not a bug in Vista.
To make sure this is Vista related, I downloaded Picassa 2 from Google and
all the JPGs are displayed normally with absolutely no visual distortion.
This first appeared on my HP DV9010us laptop which I upgraded from Win XP
Pro to Vista Premium so I thought it might be related to an "upgrade" issue,
but I just bought myself a brand new HP DV9347cl laptop with Vista Ultimate
Pre-installed and the problem appears there as well.
Has anyone else seen JPGs visually distorted in the form of squeezing the
displayed aspect ratio? Is Microsoft aware of this issue? Any solutions out
there other than using another 3rd party product? THANKS!
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