I'm going to try to not sound like to much of an idiot here... but when I click on the rectangle button and I choose the size of the pic I want to edit I should have it be (example) 360x360, instead of the height 360 and the width 270?? Is that what you're saying? And then I can scale the picture to what it should be (150x150)?? I Just gave it a try with the Goldust picture and here's the old pic...
And the new pic...
Sure it looks better, but the frustrating thing about it is if the height of the pic that I want to copy is say 360 and I need to get the width to be 360 but the picture isn't that wide. Then it will look all distorted. So if I bring the height down from 360 then it will cut off some of the face, know what I'm saying?? So that part is where I'm lost. But I Think I understand what you're saying, and any help is greatly appreciated. So if you wouldn't mind to just elaborate just a bit more then I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
Yes, you can see how much better that looks now. Now the problem your facing, what you want to do in a case where your box CANT be similarly proportioned is, is scale it manually. To do this HOLD CTRL and drag the little corner of the box. and your going to want your longest length to be 150 and the other noticablly smaller.
So for example you have a picture 300 tall and 350 wide. So instead of scaling it to exaclty 150x150 and have it looking distorted as all get out, you scale it down manually to a with of 150 and i think the height works out to about 129. And presto still in proportion albiet slightly smaller. Hope that helps. Any further questions I'd be happy to help with.
EDIT: Sorry I didnt address your question dirctly, but the same thing applies. Pictures get distorted when one of the dimensions gets overscaled.
~PhreaK