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ToddJ
07-21-2004, 03:09 PM
when i put pictures on my Pocket PC, it seems that they save them in their full resolution (5 megpixel). Is there an easy way to get it to make them smaller when syncing? I saw it does for bitmaps, but not for jpegs.

rhmorrison
07-21-2004, 03:41 PM
Get the freeware program IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) and batch process resize all your photos to 320 x 240 in one easy step (or 640 x 480 if you have a VGA PocketPC).

Optionally you can also decrease the JPEG save quality to get even smaller sizes.

I personally think that IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) is the best FREEWARE tool around for what it does (which is a lot). And if you need MORE then you can't get a much more powerful tool then Gimp 2.0 (http://www.gimp.org/about/), certainly not for the same price!

butch
07-21-2004, 04:12 PM
Try Spb Imageer (http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/imageer/?en) it's a very nice and fast picture viewer for pocketPC and have an activesync plug-in to convert files.

Jason Dunn
07-21-2004, 05:39 PM
I'm biased because I helped create Imageer, but I think if you take it for a free trial you'll like it. At least, I hope you will. :-)

ToddJ
07-29-2004, 02:33 PM
Are there any other good ones? I would love to have one that will also work as a slide show when I have my Pocket PC in the cradle

tanalasta
07-29-2004, 03:21 PM
Resco Picture (or now Photo!) Viewer will let you create photo albums of your pictures which you can set to auto-optimize to 320x240 or 640x480 to reduce their size.

I haven't found a PPC program to let you change compression ratios yet to further reduce file size. I have to use Adobe Photoshop for that :P

rhmorrison
07-29-2004, 03:33 PM
I haven't found a PPC program to let you change compression ratios yet to further reduce file size. I have to use Adobe Photoshop for that :PThen you have not yet tried IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) yet! :treadmill:

Jason Dunn
07-29-2004, 05:19 PM
I haven't found a PPC program to let you change compression ratios yet to further reduce file size.

Imageer will do that. :-)

Jason Dunn
07-29-2004, 05:20 PM
Then you have not yet tried IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) yet! :treadmill:

IrfanView works on a Pocket PC? ;-) (that's what the question was about)

Menneisyys
12-28-2004, 11:39 AM
Are there any other good ones? I would love to have one that will also work as a slide show when I have my Pocket PC in the cradle

There're tons of slideshow-capable PPC apps; check out my forthcoming article on them: http://menneisyys.freeweb.hu/PICVIEWERS

ChunkyMonkey
12-28-2004, 02:36 PM
I use Microsoft Image Resizer.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

It easy to use and free! Very simple, powerful app.

Menneisyys
12-28-2004, 07:28 PM
I haven't found a PPC program to let you change compression ratios yet to further reduce file size. I have to use Adobe Photoshop for that :P

Almost all of the programs that are able to export some kind of JPG have settable compression ratio, even if it's in some cases only 3 or 4-grade (an example of the former is ACDSee Mobile 1.0 - which is highly buggy and can't be used with larger, >100k JPEG's - and the latter are PQV 3.0 and XnView 1.20). Some apps, on the other hand, allow for fine-tunable (1...100%) JPG output compression ratio, for example, Spb Imageer 1.2, Pocket Phojo and Resco Picture Viewer 5.1.

As for batch resizing on the PPC itself, XnView 1.20 is certainly the best because, unlike the second best, Spb Imageer, it can also create individual files, not "just" put the resized files upon publishing to Web/in a proprietary-format album, like Imageer.

In XnView 1.20, upon selecting more than one thumbnail, the selected transformation (e.g., resize) can be applied to the images all at once and the new file saved with a given pre/postfix.

(All this info can be found in my forthcoming article BTW ;) )