Damon Bell
EZ Team Builder scales all images by the exact same percentage. Is doesn’t attempt to correct proportional differences that are already present in the images. It doesn’t try to make all of the heads the same size. It assumes that the image sizes are already proportionally correct. There would be no way for it to know one person is 5′ 6″ and another person is 6′ 3″. It would have no way of knowing one image is a child with a small head and another is a larger adult with a large head. If it did try to match those heads then you’d end up with a giant child image. Therefore, all of the images are scaled by EXACTLY the same amount. So for example, it may calculate a scaling of 45.87% is needed to fit all of the images into the template. So it will scale every image by 45.87%. This maintains the proportions of the images exactly as they already are….. and assumes that you already have this correct.
However, if you are using the perspective scaling setting then it will scale each entire row down front to back. So if using perspective scaling, you can’t move images into different rows because then the scaling for that image would be for the wrong row and you would see a sizing difference. So if you plan to move images between rows then you need to turn the perspective scaling to zero. then after moving the images around you could manually scale the rows down as needed.
So as long as you are not moving images to different rows, then any head size differences you see within the same row are the exact proportional differences that the images already are.
If you are not moving images between rows and see scaling differences within the same row. then here is what I want you to do.
Find 2 images in the same row that you think look “different” for scaling. Then open up the PNG files manually in Photoshop for both images. Open the exact images that you are giving EZ Team Builder. Then copy/paste one image onto the other image manually in Photoshop. Does it show the same exact proportional size difference that you see in the finished team? I’m pretty certain that it will show that the scaling differences are already in those images.
If the images already have the scaling differences then you need to figure out where that came from. Either it came from how you shot the images, or it came from how you processed the images before giving to EZ Team Builder.
Did you crop all of the images before running through EZ Team Builder? If so then that could be where the issue is. If you do a batch crop and export from lightroom for example, if you set the images to export all as the same size then you will add in artificial scaling. For example, if you crop and export all images as 3000 pixels tall head to toe, then you just made a tall kid and a short kid both the exact same height of 3000 pixels. So if cropping, DON’T resize to a specific size. If one image is 4597 pix tall and another is 3567 pix tall then save them as that because that keeps the real size differences.
If you didn’t crop and have the size differences then it has to be from when the images were shot. Was it all on the same camera and same shooting station? Did the camera stay in a fixed position with a fixed focal length? Did the players always stand in the exact same spot?
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Damon Bell.