Blender Uv Unwrap Distorted

I have made a barrel in blender however when i go to unwrap the cylinder the uv map is distorted and the rectangle appears curved around the sides.
Blender uv unwrap distorted. I would expect the opposite. I am trying to uv unwrap a model of a tank i am creating. It only takes a minute to sign up. Blender 2 8 uv unwrap distored.
However i do understand the concept. If the texture in the uv image editor is not 1 1 aspect ratio it distorts the map to match the aspect ratio of the image which is wrong. However each time i true to use the smart uv i get distorted results. Blender stack exchange is a question and answer site for people who use blender to create 3d graphics animations or games.
So you have this nice cylinder without caps ends. Quite often you end up with a distorted shape of your object and have to clean it up. Blender artists is an online creative forum that is dedicated to the growth and education of the 3d software blender. Sorry for a break i was sick i still am but fell good enough o make a video.
Blender tutorial about how to uv unwrap in blender so that you can texture your model. This takes time and effort as you select all the vertices and re align them via the appropriate axis repeating this endlessly. No more manual alignment of a distorted uv blender s uv unwrap is far from perfect. Then you press u select unwrap and hope for the best but when you check your uv map you find that the nice straight cylinder is unwrapped in a very strange way.
The mesh primitive that you can add in blender. This bug occurs when using the project from view uv unwrapping technique. I selected faces on the same side of a single curved surface but the uv wrap is more narrow than the object itself. I m very new to uv wrapping unwrapping.
You want to unwrap it so you mark as seam one of the long edges. Much love blender unwrapping.