Add_image_size not generating correct size

Question

I have 2 additional image sizes i've added to my theme and the for some reason when I use the Force Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, my images are created but the files sizes are not exact.

Here is the setting I have in my function.php file.

 add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

 add_image_size( 'cmntouch_featured', 450, 300, true );
 add_image_size( 'cmntouch_tile', 150, 150, true );

So the images that are regenerated should look like this:

img1_150x150.jpg img1_450x300.jpg

Some of them are generated correctly but about 25% come back with images that are totally off like this:

Future-of-webdesign-New-york-450x144.png Future-of-webdesign-New-york-150x144.png Aladdin-450x127.jpg Calvant-450x160.jpg

Has anyone see this issue when creating additional image sizes?

Answer 1

I think that's what is supposed to happen in Hard crop mode. If you resize an image to 450px wide and the height becomes proportionately smaller than the cropped height value you give for your image size, then you get the smaller height value. It's not going to stretch the height and distort your image, I think that would be way worse.

You could try changing the $crop parameter to false, and see if you like the results better.