No one likes the black bars. We're working on it. Taylor
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Andrew W. Donoho <andrew.don...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2010, at 12:19 , Taylor Singletary wrote: > > > Long story short, we're continuing to iterate on this issue and tweak the > image manipulation routines we are using. I'd recommend when uploading > images that you assure they are as square as possible before upload, but > overall, this is something we (Twitter) need to fix so that its behavior is > more deterministic. > > > > Taylor, > > I really want the black bars taken out of the images. If Twitter > must "squarify" the image, please use transparent pixels. (I place these > images on top of black, white and colored backgrounds.) I need the Twitter > user's image layout to come through. (I use, and cache, the high resolution > version of these images.) > > Thank you for your continued excellent support. > > > > Anon, > Andrew > ____________________________________ > Andrew W. Donoho > Donoho Design Group, L.L.C. > a...@ddg.com, +1 (512) 750-7596 > > "We did not come to fear the future. > We came here to shape it." > > -- President Barack Obama, Sept. 2009 > > > > > >
