Digital photo frame resolution.

[Ol!ver]

Wasn't too sure where to put this so I've gone for in here, if it's in the wrong place I apologise!

My Mum's bought us a digital photo frame as an engagement pressie, nothing flash, just a supermarket special. The box says it's a 720x480 screen, so I've been trying to make my photos match so they fill the screen. I've tried cropping but it's having none of it. I always end up with an image that needs zooming by the frame, and it's obviously cutting off the edges. Now it doen't look too bad, but it's annoying me now! Anyone care to tell me where I'm going wrong?

Cheers

 

[Messiah Khan]

Id make a new image in Photoshop with a size of 720x480, then copy and paste your photo in, and scale/crop it to exactly the right size. Other than that I can't hlp you im afraid. I had a look at those digital frames, and they look quite cool actually. Wouldn't mind 3 or so of them in a line on the wall, cycling my latest pics.

 

[glitch]

Wasn't too sure where to put this so I've gone for in here, if it's in the wrong place I apologise!

My Mum's bought us a digital photo frame as an engagement pressie, nothing flash, just a supermarket special. The box says it's a 720x480 screen, so I've been trying to make my photos match so they fill the screen. I've tried cropping but it's having none of it. I always end up with an image that needs zooming by the frame, and it's obviously cutting off the edges. Now it doen't look too bad, but it's annoying me now! Anyone care to tell me where I'm going wrong?

Cheers

Depends what camera you have. If you've got a DSLR then the chances are your aspect ratio (height:width) is 3:2. If you've got a compact digital, chances are your aspect ratio is 4:3.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've got a compact camera and your images are the wrong aspect ratio. To overcome this you'll need to crop them to the correct ratio, and you can do this in Photoshop by using the marquee tool. Not sure about other image editing software but I'm sure the functionality is there.

 

[Ol!ver]

For some reason just creating a 720x480 image doesn't solve it, nor does cahnging the ration to 3:2. Starting to wonder if it's just a cheap frame that's not so good.

 

[Bolerus]

I dont know if this will work

but

If it was mine, I would create an image, with expanding squares

sort of in the middle of the screen a 100 x 100 res square, sorounded byt a 200 x 200 square surrounded by a 300 x 300 square etc


( well actuall start at 300 x 300 or somthing and then expand from there)


on each box, some where put a key (or the actual size)

when you have made it bigger that 1024 (i know lots of work) save it and put it into the frame

then look see whihc is the last box you can see. And then crop you real picture to that size and see if it works


feel free to say shutup bolly you idiot, or even clever idea bolly lol

 

[glitch]

Good shout, Bolly.

Ol!ver; if you chop this about a bit, maybe it will help?

EDIT: Won't work. As soon as you go over the max resolution it'll start to compress the image.