On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:36:45 -0000, "Craig Zendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>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!

I don't know about the math of it, but I just did some tests:

On my LCD that won't work because I just get the top and bottom black bars at
1280 by 960. And my LCD can't be stretched vertically. I don't know about other
LCDs, but certainly a CRT can be stretched any which way.

Of course stretching the screen vertically will make people look thinner.

Take a good look at a true circle on the screen. If it's not really round then
you're stretching something.

I just tested my display at 1280 by 1024 with screen filled, a circle in
photoshop really looks round. At 1280 by 960, with the top and bottom black
bars, the circle is still very round. I found no way to manually stretch the
screen vertically to avoid the black bars but it would most certainly stretch
the circle if it was possible.

So I have to assume that 1280 by 1024 is correct for this screen ratio, as it
fills the screen and produces a truly round circle. I don't think my screen is
any different ratio than others.

I don't see why a CRT would be any different though in showing a circle as
round.

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