Tiled gallery resizing images

I’d like to have three columns displayed in the tiled gallery instead of two. I know the number of columns is determined by the content width and the size of the images, so I widened the content area and shrunk the images to 300 px.
However, instead of adding another column, it stretched my 300 px images to 500+. Of course, they’re ugly.
The CSS for the tiled gallery has a max width of 100%, so I don’t understand why they are being stretched.

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