I picked up Best Buy's releases of some television series that were packaged in lunch boxes.  Because of the shape of the box, the scans don't fit within the traditional 500x700 paradigm and ended up being resized by the program with less than desirable results.  I was wondering if there is a way to submit these so that they work a bit better.

If I resize the width to 500 the rest of the image is too small by comparison to be useful.  The only other solution I came up with would be to rotate the image sideways.  The resulting scan of the lunch box would be sideways, but the overall quality would be significantly better.  Is this permissible?  Or does anyone have any suggestions for a better solution (I am still learning the ins and outs of how things work with Profiler, so I may have missed something really obvious  )

I don't use Profiler Editor, i do ALL of my image work in Adobe Photoshop and save dirtectly to profiler from the Program.

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But to preserve the image ratio and still reduce the width of the image to 500 pixels or less results in a rather small image IMHO.  In this case I reduced the image size to 37% of the original size, preserving the original ratios and as usual made sure the file sizes were within acceptable parameters (front and back were around 180-185kb each). It didn't fall below the magic 500 pixel limit though-  I submitted it anyway on the off chance it might slip through, but it was re-sized internally. (I have seen a few scans that exceed the pixel limits) 

It's not a big deal, I just thought there might be a more elegant solution that I wasn't aware of.  I'll either re-size myself and re-submit with a 500 pixel width (to correct the compression issues) or submit my landscape image as a portrait scan. 

kdh1949- I took a look at the Man from UNCLE scan (and it looks great), but it is small  and most of the text on the back is unreadable (unless my eyes have really gotten that bad ). 

Thanks for the input and suggestions!

You're not limited to the 500x700 pixel width for your local database -- only when you contribute it to the master database does image size come into play.  Most of the images I scan are in the 785x1100 pixelrange -- and they look fine in Profiler.  You can read even the small print in most cases.