Windows Photo Viewer stretching images ?

[Bbq]

Sometimes, when I use windows photo viewer, it distorts the crap out of certain pictures. Not all of them. the pictures look fine in other programs, just not windows photo viewer. What can I do to fix this ?

Here's an example. Image properties, what it looks like in irfanview, and windows photo viewer :

 

[Snowknight26]

Did you rotate the image? I'm pretty sure that happens when the Xresolution or Yresolution field is missing.

You can download ExifTool, rename the exe to

exiftool(-Xresolution=100 -Yresolution=100 -overwrite_original).exe

then just drag/drop the affected JPGs onto it and voila.

 

[rive22]

You may also want to use something like Picasa as your default image viewer. You can drag the pics around your screen with your mouse and it does a pretty decent job at upscaling when you want to zoom in on pics where windows photo viewer does a complete crap job.