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Higher quality callerid pics?

I guess this normally isnt such an issue but Ive been using the slide2unlock program which is pretty neat. Anyways it can do full screen caller id pictures which is great. However, it ends up just zooming in on my picture and looks like crap. The pic I used is a 2mp picture so its gotta be fairly large (well larger than the screen thats for sure)... Anyways anyway in general to get higher quality images out of WM6? And if anyone know in relation to Slide2Unlock as well that would be great
Thanks

anyone know?

do u have the link to this program?

I guess to save space the phone saves the contact picture with certain compression and size. Slide2Unlock just use the contact picture that you have assigned to that contact and stretches it because it's too small.
I belive you have no option to use a bigger image, it's a OS "feature" to save space/memory and improve speed.
But I may be extremely wrong.

It's not what is asked, but I suggest you to use Photo Contact Pro

with the caller id actived... in the S2U the image in fullscreen mode.... its to bad like a gaussing blur image... i re-size for 150x159 pixels... and the problem is the same...
how to have a highehr quality images in the caller id..... thanx

I posted on this subject in another thread before:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1447172#post1447172
I hope there are useful info in there.

Contacts Picture Resolution for Touch Cube and Slide2Unlock

I've been messing with Wizard TNT5.0 TouchFlo and I realized that my contact pictures in the Cube were looking a bit... blocky. Except for the ones that I took pictures of using the "Contact Picture" mode in camera. Obviously that's the resolution I should be using, right?
Wrong.
I tried converting these pictures (the ones that seem blocky) to the same resolution as pictures taken under "contact picture", which is 320x240 96dpi. When I did just that, I got the same results.
This pixilish look also looks the same in Slide2Unlock's fullscreen Caller ID. It doesn't look like that with pictures taken with "contact picture".
Now my question is...
Is there some other resolution I should be looking at? Is there something I'm missing?
Or maybe there's a program that can help me convert these pixilish pictures to the right resolution for the cube and Slide2Unlock.
Thanks guys. As a digital imager myself this is irritating me.

I think i found the answer in the touch form: it is from a guy called mangakun
Picture Quality in
QuickDial Screen Method Used
100% PocketCM>Person>Set Pictures...>w320_h240.PNG/BMP
100% PocketCM>Person>Set Pictures...>w240_h320.PNG/BMP
60% PocketCM>Person>Set Pictures...>w72_h75.PNG/BMP
(low res. = not enough pixel information)
50% BuiltinWM6ContactList>Person>Edit>Change picture...>w240_h320.PNG/BMP
10% BuiltinWM6ContactList>Person>Edit>Change picture...>w72_h75.PNG/BMP
Note: w320_h240.PNG, w320_h240.BMP, w72_h75.PNG, w72_h75.BMP are copies made from a photo, and transfered into external memory.
Thanks to PocketCM for solving this annoying quality problem.
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And it works ok but i found that when you resize them 260h_240w they are even better and more on scale
for slide2unlock i don't have the answer because i am not using it anymore.

there is a mode mode of Camera application that is capturing pictures in proper aspect ratio and size.

ArrO; said:
I think i found the answer in the touch form: it is from a guy called mangakun
And it works ok but i found that when you resize them 260h_240w they are even better and more on scale
for slide2unlock i don't have the answer because i am not using it anymore.
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260x240 seems a bit odd. I'll check it out. So far 320x240 really isn't working out for me though, I don't know why...

Freeware Picture Editor / Home background

Does anyone know of a decent freeware WM6.1-compatible picture editor? One that could be used to alter the contrast, brightness and colour of a photo?
I've found that very very few photos can be effectively used as a Home screen background unless they are very dark. The white & grey text become unreadable otherwise.
So ideally I want to darken some pics I have and see if they work better. It'd be nice to be able to do this actually on the phone.
Cheers!

personally i use photoshop..not a freeware..anyway what i wanted to say is that it doesnt need to be "made" for WM6.1...you just need it to be able to resize or crop the image..
TP resolution: width:480 x height:640

Giannis86 said:
personally i use photoshop..not a freeware..anyway what i wanted to say is that it doesnt need to be "made" for WM6.1...you just need it to be able to resize or crop the image..
TP resolution: width:480 x height:640
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Photoshop isn't freeware. Nor does it run on WM6.1. It's not cropping the image that's the problem - the picture viewer on the TP allows resizing and cropping already.
The problem is altering the brightness, contrast and colours of a photo.
I'm looking to be able to do this on the phone itself, preferably using freeware. I already have Photoshop on my PC.
Hope that makes it a little clearer...

hi,
you can do very simple image changes using:
http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
Hope it helps,
D.

dav3ywrx said:
hi,
you can do very simple image changes using:
http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
Hope it helps,
D.
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That looks like the baby, thanks, I'll give it a go!

Hmmm, just tried it out. It looks like it has the features I want, but for some reason, whenever I edit a picture, it doesn't save the changes, which is a bit frustrating!
For instance, if I highlight a picture, select Tools > Adjust, I get the screen where I can, for instance, reduce the brightness. Then when I hit the "Adjust" button, it just goes back to the file viewer, and the picture is unaltered.
Most odd!

Jim Coleman said:
Photoshop isn't freeware. Nor does it run on WM6.1. It's not cropping the image that's the problem - the picture viewer on the TP allows resizing and cropping already.
The problem is altering the brightness, contrast and colours of a photo.
I'm looking to be able to do this on the phone itself, preferably using freeware. I already have Photoshop on my PC.
Hope that makes it a little clearer...
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i know its not freeware that what i said too
i thought you wanted a program that will allow you to make wallpapers, not that it would run on the mobile itself
Have you checked the Diamond section by the way?

Hi Jim,
I've just tried increasing the brightness of an image on my TP with XnView Pocket 1.40 and it seems to work fine. I can adjust the brightness etc and then when I hit the 'Adjust' button a message pops up saying:
The Image xxxxx has been adjusted and and has been saved into xxxxx_m.jpg.
It doesn't alter the original image, it saves the image to an altered file and adds the '_m' to the file name.
I've attached a screen shot of what happens on my TP, are you saying you don't see this screen after you hit the 'Adjust' button?
Cheers,
D.

Hmmm. It wasn't working with a particular picture which was about 8 Megapixels. I cropped it down to about 6 Megapixels in "Pictures & Videos" and then tried again in Xnview and all of a sudden it started working.
Perhaps there is a bug which causes it to fail if the picture is too big?

Actually I think I've sussed the problem - the original file was set to read-only!!! D'oh!
(Would've been nice if the app had reported that though...)

Ah, could be connected to the size of the image. I was using a file that was about 600Kb I must admit. I don't use this often to manipulate images but it is useful to have.
If you're manipulating large images then it may be a task only for your PC.
Cheers & good luck.
D.

I can also use commercial Resco Photo Viewer,but very good freeware editor is UltraG. It is an old-school software with many functions,but a bit complicated,so be patient to use it.

[Solved] TF3D Contact Pics are Sharp/VGA

Simply take the contacts photo and change the resolution to 640x480 then move it to your Fuze and change the contact's photo and you're set. No more blurry photos. Check it out: http://www.fuzemobility.com/?p=920

You don't even need to resize the photos, just use the original resolution and change the contact pic from within TF3D.
If you set it using the contacts app, then they appear blurry in TF3D, but if you set it from within the menu in TF3D, then they won't be blurry.

you're right...it's a huge difference.

Awesome! Thanks

I believe if you use Album or S2V to set a picture to a contact, it also gives a clear contact pic.

How do you get the photos to show up? I had photos showing but now the contact screen just shows "add favorite". Is there some setting to change?

someone should come up with a simpler way to do this.. like automatically from a computer with ur old photos.

Favorite People's Pictures

Does anyone know how i can make the favorite people pictures to look better in the little frames. The pics look good before i assign then to people, then they get all blurry. i know its something to do with the pixels, but does anyone know what software can make these photos look like good digital photos.

There are two ways to add / change the picture. One is in the contacts program (under all persons), where Windows mobile takes over and resizes your 256x256 picture to an unsharp 200x200. The other one is to use the Menu option under the Contacts tab and then "change picture". In this case the size will remain 256x256 resulting in the sharper pictures.

can you explain the steps to get the pictures sharp than blury.. step by step please.
tvos

To get higher quality pics on your TF3D favorite's tab:
1) Go to the "People" Tab of TF3D
2) Select a contact
3) Click Menu (right soft key)
3) Select "change picture" or "add picture"
4) Select the contact pic that you would like to use.
5) You now have a non blurry display pic.
The key is to add the pictures through TF3D and not through Pocket Outlook.

Here's a detailed explanation:
http://www.fuzemobility.com/?p=920

appreciate the info, how ever I might already have pre-existing pictures sync'd with my outlook. so if I add the contact it will be blurry... if I do it the way you recommend then I would have to go through 200 contacts and re-create their photos.
any better ideas or am I stuck with it being blurry?
tvos

never mind, i am reading about the 480 x 640 resolution.. sounds like a lot of un-necessary work just to have clairity.
tvos

tvos said:
appreciate the info, how ever I might already have pre-existing pictures sync'd with my outlook. so if I add the contact it will be blurry... if I do it the way you recommend then I would have to go through 200 contacts and re-create their photos.
any better ideas or am I stuck with it being blurry?
tvos
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You'll have to do them individually as far as i know, or leave them blurry. I have been doing a few at a time. If it's any consolation I've sync'd my contacts several times using my mail2web server, and the higher res pics have remained. I just used TF3D people tab, i didn't resize anything. Added a few people and changed the pics each time i've flashed. Didn't take me too long to get through my 325 contacts at the rate i flash

Thanks for the thread. . I only have a few, but they now look loads nicer.
Can I delete the images now or do they have to remain? I don't want a folder full of TF3D images if I don't have to.
I suppose I could . . DO it and report back.
Okay they seem to remain. . dunno if it'll survive a reboot, but I don't wanna screw with it right now.

i wish somebody could develop an app for this, that could be ran on the computer

If you don't use TF3D, another way to do it is to use the HTC Album. I put all pictures of my friends in a folder and then just went through each image one by one using the 'save to contact' from the menu. It's relatively quick and easy to do.
Side note: One thing I noticed is when I had an image which was exactly 640x480 in size, it didn't sync to Outlook via ActiveSync. It came up with an error message that "The following contacts failed to synchronize from the device". After some fiddling around, it appears that it didn't like the image being 640x480. I reduced the dimensions slightly (e.g. 600x...) and then it worked perfectly. Might come in handy if you get this error...
xzibitB

I am new to the HTC Fuze, about weeks. I have resized the pix to 256 x 256, 640 x 480, 480 x 640 and after the contacts resets the picture is poor quality again. How in gods name do you stabilize this issue. I love the phone but this is pissing me off.
I am no stranger to resizing. I resize in Photoshop...
Thanks in advance...
Viper