It has happened a few times now -- I've been in front of someone elses
computer where the owner has a wider view - don't know the numbers - but
if you were sitting in front of one of these monitors, just looking at
the wallpaper / desktop screen , the Google Chrome Icon
and the Firefox Icon that are normally circles appear as ovals...
And everywhere you go on line where there are images - unless they were
created stretched, are distorted
OF course I saw this when I wanted to show some of my work to someone
who had one of these monitors...
I thought there must be some simple way to adjust the view without
changing _everything_
In two cases, the owners couldnt recognize what was happening.... a
couple of times it was someone's TV that was set
wrong and that WAS easy to fix...
Here is the thing... Shouldn't the pages we have online be set in such
away that the browsers recognize the aspect ratio at
which the images were created? or the entire page?
One friend of mine didnt understand what I was talking about until we
looked at a photo of him with his wife that had been scanned
from a print and they saw how fat they had suddenly become :-) and they
did see the difference between the photo of I use on my cards and how
that photo looked on my website... but it never occured to them that the
typeface on the screen and on the printout from their own printer was
different!
seems to me if people are acquiring the latest technology with the wide
screens set up so you can watch HD tv and films shot in the
"Cinemascope" proportions that the switch should be made easier and
pointed out whenever the new equipment is purchased.
end of rant...
but IS there a quick way to toggle ???
ann the perplexed
http://annsan.smugmug.com
p.s. is there a little guide that shows the aspect ratio in numbers
and next to an exaple in graphic form somewhere?
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