Wheel size confusion

[Yardley]

I'm aware that the standard wheel size is 400x175 px but looking at my main menu wheels and some systems like Taito Type X, none of them seem to follow these dimensions and are kind of all over the place. Can someone please clarify this? I'd like to fix whatever wheels are not sized properly.

Reason I started looking into this is some of my wheels, especially for PC games, are really overlapping each other and I thought it may have to do with them not being sized correctly. I've also read about people adding canvas space to help with this but I tried it, gave a wheel 300px of height from the original 175 and I didn't really see a difference.

Can someone please explain?

[SUBZERO]

The wheels need to be 400x wide and can variable in height, i have a wheel auditor that u can use in PS. just select a wheel folder and it will resize all wheel properly BBB made it especially for that reason. i'll hook you up tomorrow

[Yardley]

The wheels need to be 400x wide and can variable in height, i have a wheel auditor that u can use in PS. just select a wheel folder and it will resize all wheel properly BBB made it especially for that reason. i'll hook you up tomorrow

Sweet!

[SIMPLYAUSTIN]

Faster, quicker and much easier solution is this:

http://www.fotosizer.com/

Styphelus hit me up with this and it was a great share Good for both Widescreen and just basic resizes in batch

[Yardley]

Thanks, I'll check it out. Just to make sure I understand this correctly, If I'm making a new wheel image the height can vary so I can resize the image setting the width to 400 and let PS determine the height with the constrain proportions option, is that correct? But with any image that ends up being less than 175x in height, should I increase the canvas size on those to be 175x minimum?

[dark13]

I usually prefer to create an action where the imnage is scaled proportionally then canvas is normalized.

The only problem is some wheels may have different proportion, so scaling 400px on X may give an higher resolution than 175px on Y.

Hyperspin consider only X resolution to scale images. This is helpful for some graphic trick...

Hyperspin use the same position for genre wheel, adding some empty space on genre .pngs you can have them at a different position