Picture Recolors (perspective?)

[AnalogKid]

Not sure of the the correct photographic term but I am trying to understand how Sims2 uses the pixels of the paintings. In my attempts the pixels of the painting to come out, 1 to 1 with what I put in.

Example ( cause Im comfused by what I wrote lol )

Started with a jpg 1203x800.
wanted to put it into the rainy day on main st painting
used Wizards of SimPE to export as PNG
in photoshop the painting portion appeared to be 342x256

which later using SimPE Object Creation > PhotoStudio I saw it was 341x256, results were the same

Multiplied 341x256 by 3 which gave me 1023x768
Cropped the orginal photo to that size the shrunk it to 341x256
placed in the PNG at proper place

used cropped pic in PhotoStudio same result

the final result is a squished photo. See pic below.

The reason Im trying to figure this out is I have tried also with Lady in Red painting for the vertical pics and they seem distorted slightly as well.

Any suggestions to maintain the porportions/perspective of the orginals?

Thanks in advance
Analog Kid

[lym]

It's because of the way the object has been mapped. If you want the picture to retain the proportions of the image you'll need to make a new picture mesh and map the image to the new mesh to make it how you want it to look.