Help Trouble sending pictures in messages

[dlpj82]

Any time I try to send a picture lately in a message the phone says its to big and resizes it and it comes out all distorted. These picture where taken with the phones camera.

 

[SectorStar]

I've been wondering this myself too. I had a photo I had taken with a normal digital camera saves on my lap top. I emailed that photo from my lap top to my phone, than texted that same photo to someone else and it came out normal. Yet if I tried doing that with a picture that was taken WITH the phone as you described it like "compacts" and distorts the photo as you described. I guess a good example of what it does is I'm a pretty tall skinny person, yet when I tried attaching the photo and it compacted it, it made me look like a pretty shory chunky person

 

[Steve_912]

I've had the same problem--seemingly randomly.

I sent a pic to a friend who works with graphics, and she said the distortion was 'reversed' when she swapped the vertical & horizontal dimensions. In other words, when the pic was compressed to fit MMS criteria, somehow the vertical & horizontal dimensions were swapped.

EDIT: the tech term for a pic's vertical and horizontal dimensions is 'aspect ratio'. "Maintaining aspect ratio" keeps the correct image appearance (versus looking squashed, like a fun-house mirror). So, my graphics friend was saying the aspect ratio was being flip-flopped, e.g. a 640x480 pic was being transformed into a 480x640 image.

It doesn't happen on every pic; most go through ok. I've tried to see if it was linked to
using a pic from "Pictures' vs 'Capture Photo', or taking a pic (or using a pic taken) in landscape vs portrait orientation. I have detected no pattern for why it happens, or doesn't happen.

I believe this is not so much a Centura issue, as an Android problem. There's a lot of net references to other Android phones having this problem, besides Centuras.