I noticed the same problem a long time ago, before I had an LCD. I would
make a new document in PhotoShop that was 1" x 1" and then bring up the
CRT's controls to shrink/expand the screen until both dimensions of the box
were equal. I wound up with 1/2" - 3/4" extra black space on both left &
right side but everything was proportional. Never thought about another
resolution.

Mike

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This de facto standard bit me on the $%*! a while back.

I had a 21" monitor in the office and a 17" in the studio, both CRTs.

The 21" at 1600 x1200 and the 17" at 1024 x 768, "de facto" standards.

The 17" was swapped for a 19" at 1280 x 1024.

A model that I'd worked with, many times, said, I'd made her look fat! I was
dismissive at the time and got on with the job. Later when looking at the
pics on the office 21" her "fatness" was gone!

It took me a while to realise that 1280 x 1024 is 5:4 not 4:3 the format of
the screens.

I now run the 19" monitor at 1280 x 960 and my models love me, again!

CraigZ


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