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people pictures

hi where can i get some nice people pictures ie size.all the pictures i put for people look bad very bad i think i need the right size?.thanks

make sure that the pic has horizontal/vertical resolution of 96 dpi and they all look good. size doesn't matter that much
I've some which are 72 dpi and they look dull.

best way,
open the picture in the touchflow album, from there you can add it to your contact.
It will be auto resized and look sweet.

try downloading icons file in png format (fm 128*128 to 512*512 no difference), the same as linux uses... they work great!

thanks for the fast help

razer22 said:
hi where can i get some nice people pictures ie size.all the pictures i put for people look bad very bad i think i need the right size?.thanks
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http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-s2v.html
Free app that has the abillity to set contact pictures.
The picture look clean and clear, and works great.

just to show...
for me these icons (png) are better than any pics!

great pic boglll can i download them anyware??thx

just look here: http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/.
you can download either png files OR stuff for linux users (they are png as well)
bye

if you're having problems with the contact pics looking unsharp (blurred), then try adding them to the contact directly from the tf3d (on the people tab, right softkey "menu" and "change picture"), that worked for me perfectly, now all the pics are crisp.

funny icons
boglll said:
for me these icons (png) are better than any pics!
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where can i find the funny icons?
tnx

gsmgps said:
where can i find the funny icons?
tnx
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You could try coming round my house with a camera!

Tnx a lot ... works like charm and very clear picture using S2V option to use picture for a contact

precisely HERE (page 2 is cool)

Contact Pictures

Which image size do you use for the pictures of a contact ?
I tried almost every combination but the picture of a contact/people in the Touch Flo 3d still remains of poor quality .

BerreZ said:
Which image size do you use for the pictures of a contact ?
I tried almost every combination but the picture of a contact/people in the Touch Flo 3d still remains of poor quality .
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I was about to start a thread about this too. The biggest pain is that there is no sample picture you can use to make your own pictures the same size. Does anyone know the answer?

256x256px 72dpi

BerreZ said:
Which image size do you use for the pictures of a contact ?
I tried almost every combination but the picture of a contact/people in the Touch Flo 3d still remains of poor quality .
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After some research I found it. The resolution is 256x256. I use a PNG, but jpg works as well. I found out by looking at one of the avatars you can use when you have no picture of your own. Now the contacts picture looks perfect

david-v said:
After some research I found it. The resolution is 256x256. I use a PNG, but jpg works as well. I found out by looking at one of the avatars you can use when you have no picture of your own. Now the contacts picture looks perfect
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How do you do it?
Take a pic of the person, crop the wanted part and downsize it?

Yes,
that's what I will do.
I will replace all of my contact photo's in Outlook that way.
Ofiaich

david-v said:
After some research I found it. The resolution is 256x256. I use a PNG, but jpg works as well. I found out by looking at one of the avatars you can use when you have no picture of your own. Now the contacts picture looks perfect
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Perfect??
I'm using a 256x256 JPG or PNG as well at 300 dpi...and it is still poor...

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Ok I tried it . The result is better but still far from perfect.
Does someone has another idea ?

I´ve heard, but not tested, that you could use S2V (Slide to view) to add contacts´ picture without downsizing to low resolution.
If anyone tries it and works, tell us here.

Could someone post how contact picutes look like on the HD so we can see whats you mean when you say its bad quality...
Thanks!

Thanks
Thanks HelderJr I tried 2SV and that worked perfectly.

There is a setting when taking pictures with your phones camera to take contact pictures.. also for some strange reason when you use the pictures and videos program to add a photo in your library as a contact image the quality looks like crap. What looks best to me on the touch pro is open the Album program and add an image to a contact from inside the program. The contact picture quality looks much better.
Now this could turn out different on the Touch HD, but it works like this on my Touch Pro.

The thing that I dont like with TouchFlo 3D Photo Contact ... There is no standard "matrix" view of the photo contacts, for example 5 x n number of photos.
With TouchFlo 3D, we need to scroll to the correct photo and take action.
It is nice to see that 3D animation, but it is better to have an option for the user interface like the old HTC HOME.

Correction
2SV does the job. But !!!!!!!!!
Touch Flo 3d became extremely slow especially when reaching the tab "PEOPLE" and even crash down . Has to perform a soft reset and then 2SV doen't seem to work anymore.
So back to first question .

recorrection
UTVOL has it right.
Using the album(program) to assign a picture to a contact does almost the job.
Picture quality in tab "People" is largely improved but still not perfect.

asci said:
Perfect??
I'm using a 256x256 JPG or PNG as well at 300 dpi...and it is still poor...
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... i think you must save in 72 dpi to avoid resizing by the HD ... in 300 dpi, there is a resize to web definition.... i 'm currently trying becaus ei have same problem, ...i will post the answer later ...hope it works.
Charles

Add photos from Album
Hi, try to add photos to your contacts from Album application

the difference is tremendous ... see samples:
1. foto used in both tries
2. set in outlook and synced via activesync
3. viewed with touch hd fotoviewer and saved to contact

so are you saying we should use 446 x 446 res?

tboy2000 said:
so are you saying we should use 446 x 446 res?
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No!
256x256 pix. but you need to set it from the phone. Copy the picture to device, open it and set to contact. Outlook will blurr it.

Picture Size in Contacts

I've been searching for an answer to this question for a while with no luck so far.
Outlook 2003 has a placeholder for a photo on each contact's details page. This picture can be used in the People tab on the Touch HD.
What is the ideal specification for such a picture (resolution and actual size)?
It may be obvious to others but it isn't to me!
TIA

I don't know what the optimum size is, but if you add the contact photo from within the contacts app it will be small and at low resolution.
The best option for me is to resize the desired image to the same size as the screen and then add it to a contact from A_C's S2V program. This then allows a full screen photo for caller ID with another of A_Cs programs S2U2. This works fine on my Kaiser and I see no reason it wont work on my Blackstone when it finally arrives.
Hope this helps.

i just got my touch hd yesterday and i instantly had to figure out the same problem.
i recommend to sync all your contact with your pc and then add the pictures later at the "people tab" on your device.
anyways,
the contact pictures in the "people tab" are 268x268 pixels.
that works pretty good, just try it.

Most people seem to agree 256x256 is the best resolution to use, however if you import the picture from Outlook it'll be horrible quality no matter what the original resolution was.
You need to select the picture from TouchFlo on the contacts tab to get the best quality (which still isn't fantastic).

some clues here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3388796&postcount=100

Is it still 256x256 in PNG format for HTC Sense ?

Try 400x400 pixel size. I use a 400x400 JPG and work fine for me.

oxygen2k said:
anyways,
the contact pictures in the "people tab" are 268x268 pixels.
that works pretty good, just try it.
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Should have read up higher. I can confirm that is still the exact resolution for HTC Sense.

Touchflo Wallpaper Comes Out Blurry

Hi all,
I decided to set a custom wallpaper today on my HTC Touch HD and found one
that was 800x480 so it would fit perfectly on the screen. When I look at the
picture through the file explorer, it looks sharp and exactly what it looked like
on my PC, but when I set it as a wallpaper using the Settings tab
in Touchflo3D, it comes out very blurry. It's almost a low-res version of the
original image.
Is there any way to fix this problem.
Thank you
EDIT:
I opend another thread in the HD Touch sesction of the forum as I thought
I'd get more replies here. Could a moderator please remove my other thread
in "Questions and Answers"

Da11y said:
Hi all,
I decided to set a custom wallpaper today on my HTC Touch HD and found one
that was 800x480 so it would fit perfectly on the screen. When I look at the
picture through the file explorer, it looks sharp and exactly what it looked like
on my PC, but when I set it as a wallpaper using the Settings tab
in Touchflo3D, it comes out very blurry. It's almost a low-res version of the
original image.
Is there any way to fix this problem.
Thank you
EDIT:
I opend another thread in the HD Touch sesction of the forum as I thought
I'd get more replies here. Could a moderator please remove my other thread
in "Questions and Answers"
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Not sure if this is related. I had a similar problem with my contacts images.
If I assigned contact photos in Outlook and then sync, the contact photos on my phone were low-res.
But if I assigned contact photos on your SD card directly to specific contacts they became hi-res thumbnails.
Were do you have your wallpaper saved?

I have my pictures saved in the Pictures Folders in the My Documents folder.
I don't understand why this would happen, just because it's stored in
internal memory.
Never-the-less I shall try what you said and see whether it works.
Just to make sure 800x480 is the correct resolution for wallpapers on the
HTC Touch HD isn't it?
Thanks for your help Fallen Spartan

Fallen Spartan said:
Not sure if this is related. I had a similar problem with my contacts images.
If I assigned contact photos in Outlook and then sync, the contact photos on my phone were low-res.
But if I assigned contact photos on your SD card directly to specific contacts they became hi-res thumbnails.
Were do you have your wallpaper saved?
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Your problem is slightly different Spartan, If you synch with Outlook it will always down res your contact images. The trick is to add them via the people tab in manila. That keeps them high res.
Da11y said:
I have my pictures saved in the Pictures Folders in the My Documents folder.
I don't understand why this would happen, just because it's stored in
internal memory.
Never-the-less I shall try what you said and see whether it works.
Just to make sure 800x480 is the correct resolution for wallpapers on the
HTC Touch HD isn't it?
Thanks for your help Fallen Spartan
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Unfortunately Da11y, yours is a known issue right now where background images are converted to a lower resolution, allegedly to save on processing power! So a large image doesn't have to be rendered every time. I could see they woul;d put a cap on the image size, but not limiting it to less than the screens resolution! There is a thread about this somewhere. I'll try to dig it out.

Cheers ClownShoes
I find it kinda of silly that this restriction is in place. The Touch HD has got an
amazing screen and not being able to set wallpapers in the normal high-res
defies the point.
I hate having low-res wallpapers so at the time being have no option but to use
the default wallpaper

ClownShoes said:
Your problem is slightly different Spartan, If you synch with Outlook it will always down res your contact images. The trick is to add them via the people tab in manila. That keeps them high res
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To be honest I sort of thought this and I had corrected my problem beforehand. Just wasn't sure if Da11y's problem was related and I knew someone like yourself would correct me anyhow

Im confused about this very same thing, it somehow converts the image to lower resolution (dpi). Isnt there some registry entry that can be manipulated to disable this "feature"?
The phone has more then enough power to render a wallpaper, why else call it HD if it isnt even able to render a simple wallpaper properly...

I know what you mean 0verseer. This problem is very annoying as all my
high-res wallpapers are coming out proper sh*t on my Touch HD when set
to wallpaper.
I tried what you said as well Fallen Spartan but it made no difference.
You would think HTC would provide an option to enable/disable high-res
wallpapers

Da11y said:
I know what you mean 0verseer. This problem is very annoying as all my
high-res wallpapers are coming out proper sh*t on my Touch HD when set
to wallpaper.
I tried what you said as well Fallen Spartan but it made no difference.
You would think HTC would provide an option to enable/disable high-res
wallpapers
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What, you mean HTC actually providing the solution to something!!
Think you may be waiting a while!

Fallen Spartan said:
What, you mean HTC actually providing the solution to something!!
Think you may be waiting a while!
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LOL
As much as I love my Touch HD, there's so many little things that really
p*ss me off with it.
This is just one of the few. Hopefully someone comes up with a reg hack
or something that will disable wallpapers from turning low-res.

I found that link guys http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=447785&highlight=wallpaper+lo+res
It appears it's a touchflo issue and a limitation of the way the graphics engine works.

Size of Contact Pics?

All,
Can anyone help me here? I am trying to figure out the idea size of a picture for a contact in Outlook that will look best in the Sense UI. Anyone know? The contact pics that are picked up from face book look great, the ones I created look like crap. What is the trick here? Thanks!

Yes I have wondered this as well, I dont use the favorites tab b/c of this, every pic I have is blurry.

Anyone know?
A lot of views but no answers...anyone?

200x200 pixels
Try 200x200 pixels.

Use S2V (freeware) to assign pics to contacts. I always create 300x300 jpeg pictures (for future use). After you assigned the contacts they will also sync just fine with Outlook.
Even full screen caller ID's look wonderful!

S2V
Thanks that works well.