Stretching of images

[baldsparky]

Hi

I double click on a portrait image (size 768x511) to load it into pte.

In the main image window the text 'Click here to view the slide' is not shown, however when I click on the image to preview how it should look, everything is fine.

When I then highlight the image , to say customize the slide, the text 'click here to preview the slide' appears, and when I click on this to preview how the image should look(without having made any adjustments to the image), the image is stretched vertically to fit my monitor size (1440x990, Aspect ratio 16:10).

Am I doing something wrong, is there anyway to keep the original size of the image, without it being stretched to fit my monitor?

many thanks

Kind regards

paul

[baldsparky]

Hi

I have tried this in version 4.48 and the image stays the correct size.

In 5beta 17 it doesn't seem to matter what 'aspect ratio' size I choose under the 'scree'n tab of 'project options' it still stretches the image and doesn't keep it's original size.

Kind rergards

Paul

[jevans]

Paul,

Just try this. Put a slide into PTE Version 17. Click on "Project Options" and then select the "screen" tab. Make sure the "aspect ratio of a slide" is selected to the same aspect ratio as the slide you have added. No exit "project options". No selecting the slide you have added, click on the "objects and animation" button. Set the screen size to 50% (drop down box at the top of the screen). You should now see a black rectangle with your slide adjusted so that the height is the same as the black rectangle. Select the "common" tab and look to see that the "mode" shows "fit to slide". This is the default setting.

The black rectangle has the same aspect ratio as you select for a slide in the "project options, screen " tab and the default program setting is to fit any slide to the height of this rectangle. You can change this by selecting one of the other options in the "common" tab using the "mode" setting.

Jeff

[baldsparky]

Thanks Jeff. You have sorted it out.

If I select mode original in the objects and animation/common tab, my images keep their size.

Does this mean that I have to recreate my slideshows made with pte 4 to have the images displayed at their original sizes?

Thanks again for your help Jeff, I really appreciate it.

Kind regards

paul.

[alrobin]

Paul,

Another way to preserve the original size is to select "windowed mode" in Proj. Ops. Or, you can change your monitor "resolution" (size) to be the same as your image size. But, PTE does a very good job of sizing up to a larger screen resolution.

[baldsparky]

Hi Al

thanks for your suggestions, I'll give them a try.

Much appreciated

Kind regards

Paul

[jevans]

Paul,

This is a subject that is interesting me just now. I have an old slide show (done in Version 4.48) where the images are 1024 x 768, i.e. an aspect ratio of 4:3. In Version 4.48, I always created my shows with the "fit to screen" option ticked so that the images would fill the maximum amount of screen - I have an Ilyama LCD 19 inch monitor whose native resolution is 1280 x 1024, i.e aspect ratio of 5:4. If you run this show in Version 5, you cannot see any difference between Version 4.48 and Version 5.

In Version 5, the screen size handling is different. The default settings (at present!) are :

Slide aspect ratio = 4:3

Objects and animation window, common tab, "fit to screen"

When you put images into Version 5, it first assumes an image aspect ratio of 4:3 and secondly tries to fit the image into this aspect ratio by taking the largest dimension (width or height) and reducing this to fit into a 4:3 rectangle. Of course if your images have a different aspect ratio, you can select the appropriate value from the drop down list on the "project options", "screen" tab, "aspect ratio of slide". There is even a "custom" option so that you can set your own aspect ratio.

For example, if like me you have a Nikon D80 which produces 3872 x 2592 images (3:2), you can set the the aspect ratio to 15:10 (or 3:2) which matches the actual image. Now the default setting of "fit to slide" will result in the black rectangle representing the viewable area, being fully used. Of course you still have the problem that projected slide shows generally use a default aspect ratio of 4:3 (1024 x 768). I have not had a chance to see what happens when I create a show using 15:10 and then project it with a project which is set to 4:3, but I think it will be ok.

Regarding Al's point that you can always adjust you monitor resolution when viewing slide shows, which are intended for projection, on your monitor. But I prefer not to do this if possible.

Jeff