Problem importing Assets from photoshop for a  menu

Forgive me everyone this is going to be a newbie qustion.    I am trying to take photo which is 3648 x 2736 and use it as a back ground for my DVD main menu. I am using the  blank menu wide as a templete. I crop the picture in photoshop down to 1280 x 720  It is a group picture of about eight people and when I import it into Encore one of the person on the left gets cut off. I taking 720 material and making it wide 16x9 DVD.  Now this is what confusing me. I also  have Sonic DVD and as a test I did the same steps and I was able to get everyone on the main menu.  What am I doing wrong in Encore or is this a Encore issue?  Also do I import the picture as a Asset or a Menu?

1280x720 is not a DVD compliant resolution, so perhaps the first thing should be to resize to the correct resolution.
Easiest way to start this process is to drop the DPI from what is probably 300 down to 72, and see what size the picture then becomes.
People will tell you that DPI is irrelevant as it is for print only, but a huge image that size at 300DPI will get a lot smaller dropped to 72DPI.
Are you building a DVD or a Blu-Ray disc?
Either way, it is probably better to build the menu in Photoshop, including all your button sets, and then import to Encore as a Menu

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