Banner and stretching issues.

[behzad]

When setting up a banner picture to stretch, I only a few options, top, centre and bottom. Still when the screen size changes and every user has a different monitor size, the same image may get cut off so there is no real ideal setup? correct? A head gets chopped off or legs etc... Is there a way to not have this happen as the screen size enlarges?

[behzad]

Here is a screen shot of each resolution screen size changes the picture displayed. You see how the faces are cut off?

[gwpriester]

I think the best thing to do is create a very wide image, as wide as will work for most monitors. Position it and un-check Clip to edges.

You can make the image sticky and place text over the image.

I'm not a fan of stretched images for the very reasons you mentioned.

Here's an example http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/wide-photo/

One more thing. If you import a large photo into a website document, Xara changes the resolution to 260dpi, regardless of the original. To get around this, import into a print page, then cut and paste it into the web document and you will have the original resolution.

[behzad]

Gary, I followed what you suggested, unchecked the clip to edge, but now there is a horizontal scroll bad. so realistically when viewed on a 1024 I get the long scrolling bar going horizontal. How can this be?

Thanks Boy, I already read that.

[gwpriester]

I'm not getting a scroll bar in Firefox and I do not like or like Chrome. Nothing wrong with the browser except it adds .pup files whenever I use it which get flagged by WebRoot.

[behzad]

Gary can you send me a sample file, maybe I am doing something wrong.

[gwpriester]

It's already deleted but I'll whip up another.

[gwpriester]

The wide photo was 450dpi at the current size which is about 30" I optimized it to 96dpi.

[Rob-Xar]

Here is a screen shot of each resolution screen size changes the picture displayed. You see how the faces are cut off?

Sorry I've only just seen this, late jumping into this.

If you set the point of origin to top so that it scales from there, does it keep the faces in the picture?

[behzad]

Hi Rob, it does but as the screen gets larger their head gets cut off.