Thread: Thumbnail image is cropped / chopped or zoomed

Thumbnail image is cropped / chopped or zoomed

Hi,

This image cropped chopped or zoomed has come up a lot and I'm still struggling with it.

I upload a ad and when I look at the ads the image/picture is zoomed thereby cutting off from the width of the pictures, if I click on the thumbnail and go to the adverts page the image is no longer zoomed or chopped there.

I've tried to sort this out by reading various forum posts - eg media settings - Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional) on and off - This does nothing with this problem.

The only thing that works is when I save the image being uploaded as a exact square then the full image shows in the thumbnail - this confuses me.

Almost all images taken by a camera are not exact squares they will have a greater width to the height in its dimensions - so does anyone have a solution to why all the images uploaded get zoomed - it does not make any sense to me - its something with the proportional shrinking of the image??