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[aerianya]

Because "T" aka the grumpy guy decided he'd like my monitor for his other computer (one for gaming one for business) he surprised me with a shiny new 19" wide screen. It is lovely and shiny and a little bigger than 17" flat screen he pinched from me. You all look beautiful, but a little stretched sideways if you know what I mean. He said I'd get used to it, but Photoshop is also stretched. This doesn't mean much to a gamer, wider is better, but does it affect graphics? Squares are rectangles!
Do any of you make icons on a widescreen? Are there setting to change in there?Does any of this matter?
I guess till I get used to it I'll be checking every icon on the laptop to make sure it doesn't look funny...
any ideas?

ETA Screw it. It's 25 pixels. I'm going swimming....

Comments

[karieflybabe.livejournal.com]

Reset screen resolution?

I have a 21 inch wide screen that we keep at a constant 1680 by 1050 pixels.

Squares still look like Squares, rectangles still look like rectangles.

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

Anything more than 1280X1024 stretches off the screen and can't be reoriented.
I think it's probably in there somewhere just gotta find it. So frustrating because the time I have today for iconning is gonna be used to play around with this.
Oh well back to the drivers etc.
Just looking at it it doesn't seem stretched but when you really look the icons are a little rectangular. The field seems square though.
It doesn't bother me except in PS when I pull a crop and it turns out slightly rectangular instead of square. Wouldn't have even noticed it if I didn't have my crop tool set at 100x100.
Just being picky I'm told.

[karieflybabe.livejournal.com]

Told by whom? T? Then if it's so damned great, why didn't HE take it?

Sorry, rude much that was. Ignore me, I'm in a mood.

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

He may well end up with it. I'll just trade this one for his 19" It is a beautiful monitor with a stunning picture. He is not quite as visual as I am about some things. We each have our strengths and weaknesses. Mine seems to be figuring out this thing.lol
I think he wants me to as well instead of turning to him every time I hit a glitch.
Heading to the manufacturers site to see what I can find there.
I think I may have found the problem...

Oh and this is me ignoring your mood, we all have them y'know. If you can't vent to a bud where can you? *pet*pet*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Ooh-er! That doesn't sound quite right - though I think graphics in Photoshop would probably revert to the right proportions on another screen... but then you'd never see what you're doing quite the right way...

Have you tweaked the screen settings in Control Panel? And generally there are settings that come with the monitor - have you tried its own menu yet?

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

Yep, and Spent a couple of hours last night with new drivers and fooling with settings. The tech (T) doesn't see the problem, but since I'm so visually oriented it bugs me more.
I'm gonna keep changing things till I get it the way I want it. Just looks weird.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

...but since I'm so visually oriented it bugs me more.

Oh heck yes - me too. It would drive me nuts... sorry, I can't think of anything more intelligent to suggest except twiddling ::sigh:: If I have a brainwave I'll be back!

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

It's only a 25 pixel difference, I think as I get used to it I can live with it. I hope. Maybe.
Your icon looks perfectly square to me but. mine is slightly...not.

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

You just need to adjust the screen resolution so the computer "knows" you've got a widescreen monitor. Control panel > display > settings.

If the right setting isn't in there, you might need to install drivers for the monitor. If it didn't come with a disc, search online for the brand; usually it's easy to find.

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

I thought so . I was sorta hoping someone may have a quick fix. T wanted to work on his own computer so tech support left the building on me.
I'll get this figured out just not as fast as he would. We downloaded all kinds of drivers, so today I fool with that.
Thanks for the input!

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

I just thought - some monitors have an internal menu as well, kind of like a TV set. You'd access it from a button on the front of the actual monitor. If yours has that, you can change the display dimensions using that - if the drivers and computer display settings are as they should be, that could be the solution.

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

We tried that too. I know the answer is there somewhere it's just a matter of finding just the right thing. It will be simple and make me feel stupid for not seeing it sooner.*sigh