How can I crop/scale user images so I can display fixed sized thumbnails without skewing and stretch

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Published on 2009-06-13T21:51:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 10:38 UTC
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I'm working on allowing users to upload profile pictures for my site. The classic example of what I'm trying to avoid is plentyoffish.com where each users image is skewed and looks very ugly:

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So, how can I progmatically crop/create standard sized versions of an image without the skewing demonstrated above?

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How can I crop/scale user images so I can display fixed sized thumbnails without skewing and stretch

images

image-processing

user-profile

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image-scaling

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