Snapshot resolution looking squished

I'm using widescreen resolution/monitor but when i take a snapshot it looks squished, things are much more skinny looking in the snapshot... any fix for this?

I also want to know why SL can't handle widescreen snap shots...
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When taking snapshots to disk you can set the resolution to specific sizes If memory serves me correct the highest setting is 1024 by 768. That is a 4 to 3 ratio. If you take the snapshot at your full screen resolution on a wide screen monitor which is typically a 9 to 5 ratio your picture will be distorted. The height to width ratio is smaller so the picture will look narrower.........or squished on the sides. Set the snapshot to one of the sizes SL allows for snapshots. The resulting image will not fill your monitor's screen entirely on the sides but it will be the proper ratio (4 to 3) for snapshots taken in SL and therefore not distorted.

If you're using the 1.23.4 viewer, don't use the hi-res snapshot function. It is badly broken.

If you're saving snapshots to disk, with either the CTRL-S or CTRL-` command, you should be able to get full screen snapshots.

If you're sending them directly to your SL inventory, they don't save at the resolution you take them at, because for some bizarre reason, SL only uses images with dimensions that are a power of 2 or some craziness like that. So your nice widescreen shot end up being saved as 1024x512 or something similarly whacky, and the proportions are all messed up.

SL, like most all internet based programs (web pages, etc), uses the 4 to 3 aspic ratio for resolution. Wide screens with the 9 to 5 aspic ratio the video will be stretched if run in the full screen mode. Taking the snapshot at full screen the distortion will be the opposite of what the OP is having problems with. In fact, if the OP has not set SL to run in a window at a 4:3 ratio the saved image might be further squished on the final image that is saved to disk. I haven't tested that since I do not have a wide screen monitor myself. But I helped a friend set her monitor up a few weeks ago because she had the stretched video until we set the window to a 4:3 ratio.

9 to 5? You mean 16:10 right?

Actually I looked that up. I was a little wrong.......the 9:5 ratio is almost as old and the 4:3 (the old "widescreen" format). The widescreen format now is 16:9. Sorry about that.

16:10 would be stated as 8:5........slightly taller than than the 16:9 ratio. Anyway the distortion occurs due to differing aspic ratios when taking pictures of a scene in one resolution and saving to another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)