Re: aspect ratio

Hi Peter,

you still don't seem to get it. As others have pointed out in here - it is
imperative that you leave your monitor set to its native resolution
settings. If you are using a 15.4" widescreen laptop, for example, then
leave it at 1280 x 800, which is what it would have been set at from the
factory.

This is not a game; why would you be changing the ratio? To make it clear
what I am talking about, let's pretend you have a square monitor with a
native resolution of 1000 x 1000 pixels, for ease of explanation. So you
turn the computer on and it is set correctly to 1000 x 1000. What shape your
image is, is totally irrelevant. If your image is a 6x4 photo and let's say
you have resized it down to 1200 x 800 pixels, the image obviously won't fit
on your screen when viewed at 100%. It will fit nicely inside the height of
your monitor, but it will be 200 pixels wider than your monitor, so it will
simply disappear off the edge of the screen. You can still scroll left and
right to see the hidden parts of the image. The image has not changed shape.

You then zoom out to 50% and your image will only take up 600 x 400 pixels,
so the whole image will be visible on the screen. The point I am making here
is that your image does not mysteriously become a square because the screen
is a square. The image has a certain number of pixels and those pixels don't
magically change.

Now if you start messing around with your resolution you run into trouble.
Say you change it to 1024 x 768 pixels, as you recognise this as a standard
setting. Your monitor is now displaying more pixels across its width than
its height, but the sides of your square monitor are the same. This means
your pixels are no longer square and your image will appear distorted. Your
photo will compressed in its horizontal direction.

I hope that helps to some extent.

Best regards,
Brian.

"Peter" <peternew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Joel" <Joel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Peter" <peternew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am working on a new laptop with no printer available, I am asking this
question because I cannot run a test.
I just realized I may have a problem printing my images because my
laptop is
a widescreen. The aspect ratio is adjusted so that images look normal on
the
laptop's built in monitor. Does anyone know if aspect ration is a
printing
problem with CS3?

Ratio Aspect should have nothing to do with wide/narrow screen .. cuz you
should deal with the IMAGE not the LCD.


I solved my issue, which turned out to be a self induced panic. I was
concerned that if I create say a square image of 760 x 760 it would look
square at the aspect ratio in which it was created, but distorted if I
change aspect ratio. I finally ran some tests. I was confusing Windows
boxes with the fixed aspect ratio in PS. Thanks to all for your responses.


--
Peter


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