Images distorted on laptop

Make sure you have Compatibility Mode turned off. There may also be other image settings within Internet Exploder that affect this. I have only seen this in IE. No other browser that I have checked (Firefox, Chrome, Opera Safari, etc.) displays photos with this distortion.

Do yourself a favor and download Firefox. It is a MUCH better browser...it even has spell check built in!

GNNPNUT,

I noticed the distortion, too.  I mentioned it on the "Problems" thread ("schrunched" is the technical term I used...)  It's buried somewhere on page 8.

It wasn't happening when the new forum went live yesterday, either on my work or home PC.

Seems like something happened when some subtile changes were made since yesterday.

Rusty

That's what you call Hi-Rail. 

Rich: 

Where is the "Compatibility Mode" setting at?  Is this when the photo is uploaded?  If so, this is a bigger issue to me, as the photo examples posted were one photo from me (linked to Photobucket), and one photo uploaed by you. 

I couldn't find any setting within IE for Compatibility Mode. 

Regarding Firefox, I have that installed at home.  I cannot install that on a company owned machine.

Regards,

GNNPNUT

Well, my home PC is also distorting the pictures, now.  As I mentioned earlier, it wasn't happening on Feb 1.

Just checked my MacBook and pictures are OK there.

Since The Powers That Be indicate I need to upgrade my browsers (not an option on my work PC) to IE8/9, Firefox or some other silliness, this will be my last comment on the subject.

I'm a believer if something works, don't fix it.  My PC is a tool and not a way of life.  I have little to no problems with my current version of IE.  I'm not going to make changes to satisfy just one website.

So, as long as I can click on the image and see it in its proper proportion, I'll leave things be.  Or, I'll just size my images to 490 pixels wide or use my Mac more often.

There are advantages to the new forum, there were some to the old version.  The old forum is gone, so I will adjust.

Rusty

If you are still using IE7 at work, your IT people are asleep! IE7 came out in 2005!

This is not a matter of upgrading your browser for just one web site. I guarantee that as time goes on, more and more sites will not work with older browsers. The technology is moving very fast, and older browsers simply cannot handle html5 and heavy Java programming, which is what drives this site.

I'm sorry you are having a problem, but 99% of us are enjoying the new forum without any issues at all. So it's not really fair to blame US for the problem now, is it?

OK, so what is the fix when I'm running IE8?

Didn't say I was blaming the forum, just stating the facts as they are in my particular case.  My home IE version is 8.0.6001.18702, whatever that means, as is my work browser.  I stopped being a computer wiz around 1991.

As I said, I will adjust.

Rusty (the little old Luddite...)

I only saw this thread after posting a "complaint"/observation about vertically distorted images in Rich's "post complaints here" thread.

I too uploaded some on day 1 and they displayed properly.  Today, not so much.  In Scott's thread I noticed a few that are vertically stretched, but many are fine.  So I don't think that points to a setting or else ALL would be distorted.

Here's the one that I posted:

Weird: when it first showed after I uploaded it it looked fine.  Once I did a SUBMIT it became distorted.  What the hey?

I came back in to edit my post and it shows up perfectly, until I hit SUBMIT>

Thanks Jim: the library doesn't offer any of those types of software products though, sadly enough.

BTW: I got things to show up OK by doing exactly the OPPOSITE of what was suggested above:

<b>Make sure you have Compatibility Mode turned off. There may also be other image settings within Internet Exploder that affect this. I have only seen this in IE.</b>

I turned mine ON and now they show up in proper ratios!

 go figure

- walt

That was the point I was trying to make earlier:

On 2/1/2012, the new forum debuted and photo's appeared undistorted (a.k.a. "normal") on my PC.

On 2/2/2012, the second day of the new forum and photo's appeared distorded (a.k.a. "schrunched" horizontally) on my PC.

Something changed somewhere overnight.

They tell me it's my browser, IE version 8.0.6001.18702 and I should change/upgrade.  Yet, this is the only site I vist where there is a problem. 

In fairness, photo's appear OK on my MacBook, so there may be some truth to 'browsers matter," attitude, but it seems there's a tiny little bug running around somewhere in Hoop.la.

I'm pretty sure Rich is getting frustrated somewhat from us folks whining about the changeover and I apoligize if I appear stubborn about this, but it's becoming obvious I'm not the only person to see this issue.

Rusty

Well, I am confused also.  Yesterday I posted photos using internet explorer 8.  Like others, originally they were just right.  Later on when I got back on line all of my pictures were distorted.  I did as Rich suggested and went to fire fox.  Last night all of my photos were perfect again.  I took a few more and they were good as well.  Happy as a lark.  When I got on line this morning they were all distorted again.  I took a few more and they were distorted as well.  I've been trying all day to figure this one out and I can't.  AAARRRGGHH!

today is a new day and the images are back to being vertically stretched.  When I turn ON compatibility view so that the images look right, the entire structure of the forum changes and posts get difficult to read.

I took your advice and found PAINT, so I took a screen image just now and used PAINT to save it as a jpg.  Let's see if it worked!

OK, that worked!  The image on MY screen shows the PAINT .jpg file showing the image as distorted - looking at the transformer makes it obvious. 

Jim, if you revisit this thread, how does it look to you?  Distorted like it does to me?

This club has another new member. I posted in the thread about Big Boys and posted a pic showing the relative sizes of various models of Big Boys, and other articulateds, my piic came out compressed horizontally. That really defeated  the purose of the post, it made my scalle AC-9 look kind of like the MTH Bantam Daylight.

If I click on the small image under Attachments, it seems to enlarge that  in proper proportions.

Another somewhat related issue, in the same posting, I have two columns of text describing locos in the pic, the left column is against the left margin, and stays there, then I spaced over and listed a right column, which I had arranged with the left edge of that column all vertically alligned. When I submitted the post, the left edge of the right column was scattered back and forth down the column, with no rhyme or reason that I could decipher. Any Ideas what I did wrong, or what to do differently, I had the same issue on the old forum as well.

Doug

All of the images on my laptop looked stretched, I went from IE8 to IE9 and all is well.