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Product icon image sizing & cropping

I've been trying to clean up some of todays postings so the there is an image for the given device. I'm really finding it hard to find images on the web that meet the 800x600 requirement. Often they are much smaller 400x400. Can we lower the size for the product Icon I don't see this as a killer issue.

The second issue I encountered was the limits of the crop tool. Maybe we need to look at altering it so we can zoom or de-zoom the image a bit so it better fits the framing.

I would love a means to have the tool auto back fill to make up the difference when the image size was not in the correct proportion.

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Agreed, i run into this issue all the time.

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Hi Dan,

If the device is really obscure it can definitely be tricky, but I've had pretty good luck with Google image search. Have you tried that? It lets you specify the image size you need and only returns images of a given resolution (or higher):

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From there it's usually pretty straightforward to crop in tighter if needed.

Zooming out and/or changing aspect ratio usually requires adding pixels to the image—possible to do pretty quickly in Photoshop, especially if the background is of a uniform color, though it usually needs some additional fine-tuning. I don't know how easy/hard it would be to implement this on the iFixit crop tool; would be a neat feature for sure. Meanwhile if you'd like to post a specific example or two, I'd be happy to help out!

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I was thinking scaling filling in the rest as white space. Similar to how Apple does it with the Address Book avatars, while it's not perfect it helps! If you look at some of the ones I put in the tops are cut off or the sides as the ratio of the image was not 800/600.

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Yes, I tried using google to isolate a good match. Sadly, I couldn't for a few. I altered a few stretching/shrinking them but then they are misshaped.

I don't want to make this complex that why I was thinking holding the ratio of the image just zoom or de-zoom the image to fit and then fill the difference with white.

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Dan will be eternally grateful.