User talk:OptimisticFool/Image Cleanup

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Widescreen

I don't feel that all screenshots from SBCG4AP need to be in a widescreen aspect ratio. A wide image makes everything smaller when seen as a thumbnail. In other words, the result of having extra empty space is worse visibility of the subject of the image. OptimisticFool 07:52, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but...

What is the aspect ratio? I don't see anything wrong with the pictures in that category. Thy Not Dennis (^t/_c) 12:32, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

According to the edit history of each of those, someone already corrected them. Although, looking at the changes some of the new ones have only very slightly different aspect ratios and at least one of them didn't look changed at all to me (I didn't actually measure it though, so maybe it was just very subtle). 98.222.134.36 13:52, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

But... what is an aspect ratio? Thy Not Dennis (^t/_c) 14:31, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

The ratio of the width versus the height of the image, or how "square" an image is. For example, traditional televisions and monitors have an aspect ratio of 4:3, meaning for every 4 pixels of width, there are 3 pixels of height. Widescreen televisions and monitors are 16:9. Movie screens are even wider. 98.222.134.36 15:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: the actual images in question, I don't really know what the problem is/was. If the images were being shown in the wrong aspect ratio, they would appear stretched or squashed, but that didn't seem to be the case. Perhaps the person who flagged them as needing fixed simply wanted them to be the same ratio as appears in the game, but the game had both 4:3 modes and 16:9 modes, and some of them are cropped anyway. I don't know, so that's why I reverted my initial edit saying they were "done". 98.222.134.36 15:21, 25 April 2009 (UTC)