News: some images are cropped cutting people's heads off

[petemill]

Description

On Brave News, images are sources from multiple publishers, each with different aspect ratios. So in order to fill a consistent aspect ratio in Brave News' UI, we inevitably crop many images. We center the image before cropping. Somewhat often this is producing results where subjects' heads are being cut off. We can somewhat aleviate it by changing the alignment to "top".

[stephendonner]

For posterity, here's the thread: https://bravesoftware.slack.com/archives/CU56GUJ1H/p1683597463587349

And a sample comparison:

[stephendonner]

Verified PASSED using

Brave	1.53.67 Chromium: 114.0.5735.53 (Official Build) beta (x86_64)
Revision	c499d7ea22c8b2dba278465a5df7b86a8efa4e64-refs/branch-heads/5735@{#970}
OS	macOS Version 11.7.7 (Build 20G1345)

Steps:

1. installed 1.53.67
2. launched Brave
3. enabled Brave News
4. scrolled and noticed GoodHousekeeping articles / photos, in particular
5. compared to the same in 1.51.114

Confirmed the images appear to be better-scaled, in particular, not cropped at the top/head

1.53.67	1.51.114

[kjozwiak]

The above requires 1.52.130 or higher for 1.52.x verification 👍 Removing the QA Pass label as the above will need to be rechecked with 1.52.x.

[LaurenWags]

Verified with

Brave | 1.52.130 Chromium: 114.0.5735.198 (Official Build) (x86_64)
-- | --
Revision | c3029382d11c5f499e4fc317353a43d411a5ce1c-refs/branch-heads/5735@{#1394}
OS | macOS Version 13.4.1 (Build 22F82)

Steps:

1. installed 1.52.129
2. launched Brave
3. enabled Brave News
4. found an example with the head cut off
5. compared to the same in 1.52.130

Confirmed the images appear to be better-scaled, in particular, not cropped at the top/head

1.52.129	1.52.130