Contact Form & Profile Photo - An Unflattering Crop

David Ash · August 30, 2013

My profile photo is a portrait of me, standing. The photo is 1200 px high by 799 px wide. It works well on the About page. On my Contact form, however, it has been cropped to a square, and the cropping has taken out my head and feet. Visitors just get a view of my middle section, which is less than flattering.

I cannot find a way to change the size or shape of the photo on the Contact form. I don't want to change my Profile picture. I want to keep the tall, thin shot on my About page. Since the SmugMug default for the Contact form is a tall, narrow photo of a guy with a moustache and a camera, I imagine it's possible to use an uncropped version there too. So how to change the Contact form photo from a square to a rectangle?

Does anyone know?

Dave17 · August 30, 2013

Samething happening to me.

I am interested in a solution to this.

Thanks,

thenickdude · August 30, 2013

Is your site public? A link to the page would make it easier to play around with the code.

David Ash · August 30, 2013

Lamah wrote: »

Is your site public? A link to the page would make it easier to play around with the code.

I'm here:

http://www.davidashphotography.org/

thenickdude · August 30, 2013

Hm, it actually shows fairly correctly for me on your contact page:

http://i.imgur.com/Q38GfYL.png

Are you using a particularly old version of Internet Explorer? Some of those don't have the ability to stretch images appropriately to fit.

David Ash · August 30, 2013

Lamah wrote: »

Hm, it actually shows fairly correctly for me on your contact page:

http://i.imgur.com/Q38GfYL.png

Are you using a particularly old version of Internet Explorer? Some of those don't have the ability to stretch images appropriately to fit.

Thank you, but no. I have the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox! How odd. I'll try playing with local caches and things. In the mean time, if you think of any other possible cause....

thenickdude · August 30, 2013

I wonder if it's some weird quirk of being logged in, have you tried it out in an Incognito/Private browsing session (where you'll be logged out)?

David Ash · August 30, 2013

Good suggestion. I've just tried that here (logged out in Firefox) but still get the same issue.

einat · August 30, 2013

On IE10 and g-chrome it's a cropped square.

CoreyD · August 30, 2013

Same for me on IE10 and chrome. Square crop right across your eyes.

PlumbLoco · August 31, 2013

It looks the same to me too - just your middle on the contact form and fine on your "About" page.

I have the opposite problem - my thumbnail size shot on my profile on my homepage is cropped square from the photo's landscape format but it shows uncropped on the contact form...

There doesn't seem to be any way of showing it uncropped in the profile - more annoyance.

Cheers, Geoff

JL Boyer · October 10, 2013

Same here!
I have the same problem, Would like to see my 1:3 photo on the Contact page. I use Safary 6.0.5 (last version)
Rather having the 'mustache man' or my picture chopped off, I decided to go without any picture at all. Too bad.

JL
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JLBoyer.com

Contact Form & Profile Photo - An Unflattering Crop

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