Size of photo?

[gjanders]

Hello, can an experienced user help me?? My DVD pictureshow burns to date have been successful, however portions of certain shots, generally tops and bottoms of verticals, cannot be seen. Photo size is presently 3008 X 2000 and I don't know whether I need to resize downwards to help fit entire photo to be seen on TV. I also another big batch of photos to be processed where the file sizes are even bigger. Any help would be appreciated.

[tubularusa]

I'm having the same problem. I burned a DVD photoshow, and many of my pictures show up cropped with important parts of the image cut off. Unfortunately these pictures are old and cannot be reproduced or retaken. Simplay saying that photographers must center the subjects and not have anything you care about near the edges is NOT acceptable.

Other programs have features where you can adjust the percentage of television loss so that it automatically formats each picture to accomodate a resizing and padding around the perimeter so that nothing is lossed. Why is there no feature or workaround like that in Ulead PS 4? The quality of the photos is very good though.

[gjanders]

I have had more of a chance to now do more DVD slideshows, and it was necessary for me NOT to use the pan and zoom options on any of the photos. This resulted in better vision of the photos used with now very little cropping done by the program. But I think there should be none at all. Even 3 shot stitched panoramas were finally acceptable.

There are I think other programs which might be able to do it better, and these I am still investigating.

[heinz-oz]

The problem is that every TV has a cetain area around the perimeter of images and video that cannot be seen. Usually 10 to 15% are lost to this overscan area. That is a physical limitation of TV picture tubes.

There may be more pro oriented programs around compensating for that fact, but I don't know of any. I don't really know of any professional making DVD slide shows either.

When you bring your images into your PC for slide show creation, make sure the aspect ratio is in accordance to your TV aspect ratio, 16:9 or 4:3. Crop the images if possible and pad them in the extremes where vital detail may be lost to the overscan.

If the program were to do that automatically, we would have just as many people here complaining about the padding that shows when viewing the slide show on a PC. The PC does not suffer from overscan.

[tubularusa]

Actually there is a problem that pads automatically. They have a little utility that you burn onto a test CDROM and play via your DVD player and TV set. You make not of the screen loss for your specific TV using their video template, then enter the values back in the slideshow creator. Thus, you end up with the perfect amount of padding so there is NO loss. The only problem is that the images flicker more than with Ulead and the text captions are a little more difficult to use.

[edsargent]

I do not currently have Photoshow but what I have done in the past was to enlarge the canvas ( not the picture) to 4 X 3 ratio and center the picture on the canvas. Then make the canvas black and import the result to PhotoShow. This can be done in Photoshop via an action. I assume most any other photo editors can do this as well.