Distorted member photos about webvoteview HOT 8 CLOSED

Ah, yeah, this probably will probably impact any landscape member photo. Probably easier to crop the photos than fix the display.

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Okay, I whipped up a shell script to quarantine the landscape photos. We lose 299-302 photos to this but I am confident the remaining photos should display fairly well. I am going to experiment with automatic smart cropping on the landscape and see how badly that mangles things.

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I did a shell script to center-crop to 4:5 aspect ratio all of our landscape images. The effect generally looks good. I have deployed the cropped files to fix it. Side note: if the old images do not update, it's a caching thing.

There were 19 files that did not crop well.

http://128.97.229.160/static/manual.zip
Can someone who is not me download this zip file, manually crop the images inside to a 4:5 aspect ratio (100 width for every 125 height) as appropriate and then reupload them to vvd's /static/img/bios/ folder (you can use sftp) and do a commit? Then close this issue

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I cropped the 15 photos referenced above and uploaded and committed. There is one remaining real problem which is that 009662.jpg does not appear to contain an image of a person at all! Also, while not strictly speaking a problem, I think 015427.jpg is Joe Kennedy. I am sure we could find a better image of him that the one that I just cropped.

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I updated to a better picture of J. P. Kennedy. 009662 (Daniel Verplanck of NY) has as is picture a picture of his house. It from wikipedia, I did a little searching for a better image of him, without success. I am going to call this closed and we can ad 009662 to the short list of folks for whom we do not have images.

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Thanks Jeff! If you notice any other photos that seem bad, feel free to keep adding to the manual folder as necessary!

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Still present for some

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I have a maintenance script in /usr/scripts/voteview_metadata/updateDB/imageAspectRatio/ called smartcrop-batch. Our ideal aspect ratio is 5:4 (1.25). The script scans for anything about 1.35 (too long) or below 1.15 (too wide) and uses facial recognition to crop to 5:4 as best as it can. So the absolute most that a remaining image will be squished or stretched is 8%.

Feel free to alter the parameters here if you want the tolerance to be a little lower, but we cause quality degradation by re-encoding a JPG so unless you think the aspect ratio is real bad I wouldn't.

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