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curtisw2000:
I love the concept of the screensaver and think it has a lot of potential, however I do have a slight issue.  I want to include my own pictures in the screensaver.  The problem is though that they are (mostly) large pictures.  The current options of stretch and crop do not work well for them.  The stretch will distort the aspect ratio which bothers me (sorry personal pet-peeve) and the cropping only makes about a quarter of the pictures look fine.  So my question is: Is there a way to stretch the pictures while maintaining aspect ratio (commonly referred to as scaling) with the current options or possibly an update?

mouser:
I believe I understand what you are asking for.
The closest you can choose right now is to tell it to preserve aspect ratio and shrink maximally, and set some borders on your monitors manually:



The first set of options tell the program not to do any stretching (you already found that), and to shrink the image until one of its dimensions fits completely on screen.

The second set of options manually puts a blank space border on the screen which has the indirect effect of causing less cropping (assuming the images are wider than they are tall).


What I understand you to be wanting is something that i should have implemented right away, which is to shrink images so that the entire image fits on screen in all cases (while preserving aspect ratio).  I generally prefer to crop because I don't like having varying amounts of blank space on screen which could happen if the option with this new mode, but it needs to be added.

I'm doing a bunch of updates to my programs I'll try to get this in the schedule of updates in the next few days.  :up:

mouser:
Try new beta download: https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/mpq/downloads/beta/MultiPhotoQuotesSetup.exe

New options you should use:


Important: I know it's not the clearest thing, but what you want is to choose the combo of:

* Crop and preserve aspect mode
* Shrink maximally
* Fit entire image
The "Crop and preserve aspect mode" is what keeps the aspect ratio.
The shrink maximally option tells it to shrink as it needs (you could adjust this to set limits)
The new "Crop Goal" value of "Fit entire image" is the key new option, which says that the goal of the shrinking is to fit the LARGER dimension, which will end up with blank borders on the short dimension if set.

mouser:
The best way to understand this new option is that if Crop Goal is "Fit small dimension", then you will tend to have images that fill the entire cell area, and aspect ratio is preserved, but where one dimension is cropped.  If Crop Goal is "Fit entire image" then the images will have some blank border around them in the cell so that entire image can be fit in cell area while preserving aspect ratio.

curtisw2000:
That is so much better.  Thank you much.  I really kinda wish that it would use the space a little more efficiently but I can imagine that would be a royal pain to try to program.  It is great though...I probably will use it after a bit more tweaking...

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