Elongated images after upgrading to mt lion

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AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB

The above is my video card.
I have a macbook pro.
I upgraded to Mt Lion and now images in finder or in Microsoft Word for Mac appear elongated. Long bodies and faces on people. Tried different resolutions to resolve it.
Nothing is working.

Any ideas?

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Open Display preferences from System Preferences and reset your MacBook Pro to its native resolution.
 
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Oh how I wish it was that easy.
I tried changing screen resolution . . . tried all the options. All result in vertically stretched photos. Also the pages in MS word are elongated vertically.

Tried reseeting PRAM . . .
Can't figure this one out.

Thanks
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can you post a screen shot?
 
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screen snap

Yes, I can.

The pictures on the left are what I see. The pictures on the right are how things are supposed to look.

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sorry, i know what you're describing but could do with seeing it in context, your desktop, word etc
 
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screen shot

Hum . . . okay. How do I do a screen shot?
I'd love to show you how Microsoft Word is looking.
And how it is supposed to look.

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COMMAND-SHIFT-3 snaps the whole screen.

COMMAND-SHIFT-4 snaps what you enclose in the crosshairs.

You will find the screenshots saved on the desktop.
 
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To my eye, the left is more normal. Try going to a website you know has a large circle. Here is one: LINK Measure it side to side and top to bottom with a ruler. I suspect your older monitor was making things too wide and now the new one is closer to correct. But the circle screen will let you actually measure to see what's going on.
 
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COMMAND-SHIFT-3 snaps the whole screen.

COMMAND-SHIFT-4 snaps what you enclose in the crosshairs.

You will find the screenshots saved on the desktop.

Cool
Okay, here it is
Screenshot.png


I'm on a macbook pro.
I have not had this problem this extreme until I updated from leopard to mt lion.

I am running windows on parallel. On that side of the computer, everything looks normal.
On the mac side, faces are elongated. On video, people are taller than they should be.
Everyone looks like they have marphan syndrome, like Abraham Lincoln.

Thanks!!!
 
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Also, my resolsution is at 1600 x 1000
That makes it possible to read fonts and things that are way too small on mac, otherwise,
But it doesn't seem to help the elongation.
 

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After looking at your screen shots and photos you posted, I agree with member "MacInWin". (I too see nothing wrong.) Also, since you're not running your MBP at its native resolution, all bets are off.....
 
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nothing is wrong

Well, I assume that the problem I have, you do not have, so your screen is rendering things
like they should look, but mine is not.

I did try running it at the recommended resolution, and it was worse. AND the font size on
Safari and other Mac windows were so small as to be nearly unreadable.

Apparently, this is not a common problem.
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It's hard to help if you don't post screen shots at the native resolution of the screen.

Which Mac do you have?
 
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Try going back to the native resolution of the screen, then you can set the font sizes in Safari to be larger, or you can use Command-+ to magnify them as you need. That approach will get your pictures back into proper ratio. Commanc -- will shrink the font sizes again. Did you look at the circle I posted?
 
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Try going back to the native resolution of the screen, then you can set the font sizes in Safari to be larger, or you can use Command-+ to magnify them as you need. That approach will get your pictures back into proper ratio. Commanc -- will shrink the font sizes again. Did you look at the circle I posted?


Sorry, I missed your circle.
I just went to it and it looks like a perfect circle and measures as a perfect circle.
???

I have put the resolution to native and it makes it even worse. And making the fonts larger only increases then in certain places. Doesn't increase them in taskbars, for instance.

Really scratching my head.
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Bottom line: If the circle is round, then the screen is properly proportioned. If the pictures now look elongated, it is because previously they were shortened on your old monitor. As for fonts, use preferences in each app to set them to whatever you need. If you change away from the default resolution, you will add fuzziness and jaggies to the screen. In the long run, you won't like that.
 

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@fastlearner:

I can well understand your difficulty with reading the small fonts on the screen. As it's very likely that I'm a good deal older than you are... ;) What I have done with my iMac (1920 x 1080) is to employ a third party application when necessary to increase the size of fonts in certain applications.

I recommend using something like "MacPilot" which has a built in utility to increase the font size (without distortion) on most apps including browsers. You can download a trial of MacPilot here. It's $19.95 to buy a license and well worth the cost. There are a myriad of other features built in beside the font manipulator.
 
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Thanks

Well,

thanks, everyone, for trying to help.

I think I'm stuck with long tall people. chuckle.
Makes it challenging when doing graphics. I make them look like they are supposed to look,
then I print it and they look totally different, so I have to make them look odd on the screen, in order for them to print out correctly.

Guess I just have to live with it.

Thank everyone!
Donna
 

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Hey chscag many thanks from your Louisiana neighbor. I either forgot or did not know about that MacPilot feature. My eyes thank you. This will be even more useful if I purchase a new Mac later this year.
 

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