In the whole Caedes experience the only thing that's ever mildly bothered me was the lack of control you have over how images get cropped when they're resized for different aspect ratios. It never bothered me much until I posted "Look Up!" tonight.

I used to only post 1280x1024 images, but lately I've started posting 1600x1200 for those people using higher resolutions. In the original upload of "Look Up!" the central rose of the ceiling is central on the image. On the 1280x1024 resize it's been cropped along the bottom and the symmetry is lost. Somewhere, a small child is crying :(

Might it be possible for a solution to this problem to be implemented by the gods of Caedes? I humbly suggest either:

1) Allow multiple versions of the same image to be uploaded for each aspect ratio (1.25 and 1.33). I suspect that lower res versions are dynamically generated and that this would therefore add hugely to Caedes data storage requirements if widely used.

2) If lower resolution images are generated dynamically, add the ability for the uploader to specify a preferred resizing method on the upload form. Options could be "crop all borders as equally as possible", "protect left border", "letterbox" (with selectable colour for the letterbox effect) , etc. etc.

3) Find a better way of saying "crop all borders as equally as possible" :)

I'm looking forward to seeing if this strikes a chord with anyone else.

Look Up .. by .. Morat

If I understand your point .. the solution might be to do away with 1280x1024 .. and go with 1280x960 since that's a 4:3 ratio and 1280x1024 isn't .. ( I use 12x10 for that extra little sumtin' sumtin')

the website tracks the monitor resolution of all users via info your browser reports (i guess) ... *caedes could give a percentage of users using each monitor rez

I'm not sure that doing away with 1280x1024 is an option, it's too popular as a resolution and we'd get scaled images or letterboxing from 1280x960.

I'd definitely be interested in those stats though, if 1600x1200 is quite rare then I'd probably go back to posting 1280x1024 images.

actually .. yes, there'd be some protests .. but it's not that big a deal, and possibly better from a pure quality point of view ..

I create at 3200x2400 and resize to 1600x1200 (and I download 16x12's for my own collection and use) ... if my image had a lot of circles in it and I checked the website created 12x10 I might be a little put out (same as you are) .. because my image would not be as intended and I would have no control over it

a 12x09 displayed on a 12x10 screen is not the end of the world

I've just taken another look at this, and it looks like the resize is actually changing the aspect ratio of the image. I hadn't noticed it before as the browser frame cut off the bottom of the picture. So it's all there but stretched to a different aspect ratio. That's not bad actually, I can live with that :)

I'll go back in my box now.

In fact it would be *much* better if I have a control over resized version. The problem is that 1680x1050 is differently cut then 1280x800 not because different aspect ratios but because the limitations of the picture size by itself.

Now, I am thinking, what is the most correct thing to do? Suppose I have 2 images of same photo, one has been cut to 1680x800 and another to 1280x800. Should I publish those separately?