Unfair display of tall/thin images in grid views

If images are tall and thin, their surface area dedicated to them in grid views is lower. This is particularly unfair in a competitive environment.

I suggest, rather than just constraining by height, you give each thumbnail the same width and height. Thumbnails should not be generated using a bounding box algorithm, but rather they should be scaled down with cropping.

Examples:

1) Let’s assume we allocate a square space of 200×200, and an image is 1000×500. We would scale to 400×200, and crop the extra width to get to 200×200.

2) Let’s assume we allocate a square space of 200×200, and an image is 500×1000. We would scale to 200×400, and crop the extra height to get to 200×200.

This way everyone gets the same surface area in thumbnail view and its obvious you need to click the images or enter slider view to see the art with a proper presentation.