Importing Vertical Pictures

[Guest]

When I import pictures that I took vertically with a camera the picture shows
up sideways. When I rotate the picture in Movie Maker the picture
stretches. How can I import vertical pictures without them getting distorted
in Movie
Maker?

 

[John Inzer]

When I import pictures that I took vertically with a camera the
picture shows up sideways. When I rotate the picture in Movie Maker
the picture stretches. How can I import vertical pictures without
them getting distorted in Movie
Maker?

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Try using your image editing software to rotate
the images before importing into Movie Maker.
You might even want to crop them so they appear
in Landscape orientation instead of Portrait....
(eliminating the black borders)

Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

Prepping Still Pix for Import
http://tinyurl.com/v9vo9

The following free software might be useful and
has a great crop tool:

FastStone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

They were cropped in Adobe Photoshop. In Adobe Photoshop the picture shows
up fine. It does not show up sideways or stretched out in Photoshop.

 

[John Inzer]

They were cropped in Adobe Photoshop. In Adobe Photoshop the picture
shows up fine. It does not show up sideways or stretched out in
Photoshop.

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If the image is displaying correctly
in PhotoShop but not in your other apps...
it's possible that Adobe read the EXIF
info in the image file. But maybe the
rotation was not saved which means
you still need to rotate the image.

And...were they cropped for content or
were they cropped to achieve the correct
aspect ratio?

If the images were cropped to the correct
aspect ratio...4:3...for standard screen or
....16:9...for wide screen......you would not
be seeing the distortion.

Bottom line...you'll have better results in
Movie Maker if you prepare the images
before you import them.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk