[PRCo] Re: Distortion of Photo

[ArtS32 at aol.com]

If you go to Ebay you will see John Bromley tells you because of Ebay rules 
 he will now distort his pictures on Ebay.
 
Art Swartz
 
 
In a message dated 10/15/12 1:21:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dwightlong at verizon.net writes:
Herb

It may be accidental.  I had the same issue when I  was first learning how 
to scan images.  If the parameters are not  correctly set, the scanner will 
compress one dimension of the image to fit the  prescribed space.  
Unfortunately there are even fots that have made it  into books with this distortion.

Or it could be intentional, as opined  elsewhere.  Certainly harder to 
remove this distortion than to remove a  watermark, but presumably not 
impossible, as setting the parameters in reverse  should eliminate the distortion, 
albeit requiring a bit of  tinkering.

Dwight

From: Herb Brannon 
Sent: Friday, 12  October, 2012 17:56
To: Pittsburgh Railways Group 
Subject: [PRCo]  Distortion of Photo
Derrick wrote:
Northbound rush hour Charleroi  interurban at Smithfield and Carson Sts.,
Pittsburgh … I suspect this is  a newly designed program to distort images
being advertised on-line for  sale.   The Charleroi sign signified express
to Frederick St. in  the rush hour.   Of peak cars were  signed
Shannon-Charleroi.
If you look at the recently posted photo of  the "Cordic" car on Second
Avenue, posted by Phillip a few days ago, you  will also notice similar
distortion. These two photos (the Cordic car pic  and the Charleroi PCC
1723) are the only two which have come through with  the distortion. Does
anyone know the reason for this?

-- 
Herb  Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National  Park