Subj : Re: Why do their heads look too narrow, or wide
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From : [email protected]
Date : Sun Jan 01 2017 11:57 pm

From: VanguardLH <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Why do their heads look too narrow, or wide

micky <[email protected]> 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.

Did you send a picture whose dimension (vertical and horizontal) were
equal?  If not, and because their pic was 1" square (meaning vertical
and horizontal are equal), they would have to stretch your pic in one
direction to make it square.

If you still have the pic you sent in, right-click on the image file and
look at its Properties.  Look under the Detail tab for the height and
width attributes.  Are they equal?

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