Carousel settings below: Large, height of 290, gutter left in the middle, rounded corners off, arrow navigation, all other toggles off.
The first image is 1024px, the second image is 290 px.
![Tattered Heart Honor](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Honor-1024x1024.jpg)
![Enchanted Storms quote Princess Easy Life 200](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Enchanted-Storms-quote-Princess-Easy-Life_200.jpg)
Small carousel
Same settings as above, all images 290
![Tattered Heart Honor 200](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Honor_200.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Princess dreams 200 1](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Princess-dreams_200-1.jpg)
Screenshots of the two above carousels in Twenty Twenty with all plugins disabled except CoBlocks
![](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/big-one-1024x712.jpg)
![](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/small-one.jpg)
full size image carousel
carousel height of 300 – image height 1024
Even though the images are significantly bigger than the carousel, they’re downsized enough to almost fit – and not downsized enough to be within the height of the carousel so they’re cut off
![Tattered Heart Honor](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Honor-1024x1024.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Princess dreams](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Princess-dreams-1024x1024.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Magic 2](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Magic-2-1024x1024.jpg)
smaller image
carousel height of 300 – image height 290
Even though your message said the images would stretch if they are less than the height of the carousel, these are only 10px less and stretched to a point that forces them to be cropped – rather than stretching to a reasonable height and simply filling the carousel.
![Tattered Heart Honor 200](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Honor_200.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Princess dreams 200 1](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Princess-dreams_200-1.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Magic 2 200](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Magic-2_200.jpg)
responsive height
responsive carousel height – image height of 1024
It’s taller than the forced height carousels (taller than I want it to be) and the images are still cut off even with the responsive height
![Enchanted Storms quote Princess Easy Life](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Enchanted-Storms-quote-Princess-Easy-Life-1024x1024.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Honor](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Honor-1024x1024.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Princess dreams](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Princess-dreams-1024x1024.jpg)
![Tattered Heart Magic 2](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/Tattered-Heart-Magic-2-1024x1024.jpg)
Twenty Twenty screenshot
you can see the images are still downsized (below 1024) but still cropped
![theme](https://girlsspeakgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/theme.jpg)