01-31-2008, 04:37 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 307
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Stupid Photo Handling???
OK, maybe I'm missing something here, and I'd certainly appreciate it if someone could set me straight if I am, but...
This evening, for the first time, I decided to put some pix on my Zune 80GB to try different background images. So I scoured my collection for some shots I thought might look good, then I manually edited them to make them 480x640 in portrait mode, then I saved them in a special folder to automatically sync to the device.
When I went to view the pictures on the Zune, it would show them to me only in landscape mode, so the images I so carefully cropped to display perfectly in portrait mode were, instead, crammed into landscape mode with acres (all right, inches) of black space on the sides.
So, as a test, I manually edited one of the pix to rotate it 90 degrees to the left, so, I hoped, it would display properly in landscape mode. When I viewed the shot on the Zune, it displayed full-screen portrait-wise, as I anticipated that it would. However, when I set that image as the background, it was rotated 90 degrees to the left.
As I understand it, then, if you want to view your pictures full-screen on the Zune, they must be either landscape shots or portrait shots rotated 90 degrees to the left; however, any image that you might want to use as a background on your device, you must leave as-is without rotation, meaning that when you just want to scan your pix the image will be really cramped on the screen.
So, is it just me, or is this really stupid?
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