Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

After suffering a major computer crash (and yes, I do have backups), when I reinstalled Qimage Ultimate (and studio for that matter), the orientation of the photos appears incorrect.

Specifically, photos taken with a portrait aspect appear square. Photos taken with a landscape aspect appear elongated by width. I have attached two screen shots to show what I mean. The photos are CORRECT on the disk and/or card.

If you look at the screen shots, where the page size is displayed on the right, you will notice the first page shows square, the second on shows elongated wide. The ONLY thing I changed between the two photos what the orientation of the page using the box directly below the preview.

The photos of the clock show the problems clearly. I believe this is some type of display and/or Windows thing, Any help would be appreciated.

I must be missing the point. Where do you see something that makes you think you have square images?

Fred

Here's another screen print. If you look at the area where the photo would be previewed for printing, the selected paper size is 8.266 x 10.766 (an 8x10 print). The box is clearly SQUARE and does not represent a true 8x10 aspect.

Additionally, the first two photos of the clock were taken using a portrait orientation of the camera. The photos again do not show the correct proportions. The third clock picture was taken in landscape format.

The last three photos are 24x30 paintings. They are not even close to correct proportions in the display...

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It doesn't appear that way on my screen. Your screen snaps are small, but look OK.
It your monitor an LCD and if so, are you set to its native resolution?

My snap looks like yours.
Place an image in the queue. Read the print size from the queue with crop scissors off.
So, depending on your camera aspect ratio, you should see a 10.0 x 6.67 image on the preview panel and reported in the queue.
Let me know,
Fred

I get 6.64 x 10.00, but the image is still square. No doubt a monitor or driver problem. Any suggestions (running XP Pro)...

I've just measured it on my screen: 35x45mm which is near enough the same as a 8x10 aspect ratio.
All the thumbnails look definitely rectangular too
I think your monitor or, graphics card or system is playing tricks.  :o
Terry

I agree with Terry 100%.
It sounds like you are seeing a square panel, but when your screen capture program snags the image to save and send out, it looks normal to us. Look at your posts.
Is your monitor a type that allows you to stretch or shrink the sides ?
Fred

Thanks for the replies. The old Dell may be finally giving up the ghost as MS rewrites XP for the last time (I see they stopped support last week). I needed an excuse for a new machine anyway since this clunker takes forever to do any reasonable edits of NEF files. Guess the next couple of hundred will go to hardware instead of cameras...thanks again for your help!

EDIT- after a little more messing around, and using the hint about "native resolution", I managed to get it straight.  The monitor I'm using needs 1280x768 to render correctly with the particular driver I'm using (it really wants 1920x1080 but I know my driver won't get that). May have to wait for Win 8,0 now....