Guidance on photo manipulation (i.e. cropping and panning)
kubark42 opened this issue · comments
The photo placement is very nicely done, but it's cumbersome to fit an actual image to the CV. Could we have guidance on how to adjust the pan, zoom, and crop parameters?
Beyond ensuring your face is centered in the photo image, there isn't really any particular requirements or guidelines. If you have a specific issue, could you please describe it with some examples?
Imagine that you had a photo where your face was not perfectly centered. Perhaps it was far off to one side, and somehow smaller than optimal (although not so small that it becomes pixelated). Without using photo editing software, how would the user:
- pan the image to center on the face
- crop the image to the appropriate aspect ratio
- zoom in for a pixel-perfect usage of the space
An alternate issue arises for those who do not want to use a headshot (at many US businesses a picture can get the resume thrown out immediately due to concerns about discrimination and fairness in hiring). So the candidate might wish to use a different picture showing, perhaps, their interests. In this case, it's not immediately obvious how the picture will look embedded into the resume, and cropped with a circle mask.
There is a normalphoto class option that doesn't apply the circular cropping: the image would simply be inserted like a \includegraphics.
%% Use the "normalphoto" option if you want a normal photo instead of cropped to a circle
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,ragged2e,withhyper,normalphoto]{altacv}
\photoR{2.8cm}{example-image}
If there are further cropping/editing to be made to the image, it would be best to do them with an image/photo manipulation program instead of trying to do it in LaTeX. MS Paint on Windows; Preview on Mac; GIMP on most platforms; or even browser-based tools e.g. pixlr.com are all suitable tools.