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Any GOOD image viewer?

As I'm rooted and using a custom ROM I don't have the HTC Sense image viewer.
And the froyo one I don't really like because it only organizes the photos by date and when you zoom in it becomes pixelated.
Want an image viewer which will organize by name and will be clear when zoomed into a picture.
Thank you.

Gallery should be the thing.

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Gallery should be the thing.
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That's the one I'm saying is **** lol.

Since I don't get such pixelation in any viewer, I'm not sure what'll work for you. JustPictures! is another viewer, and, I like it.
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Stock gallery has the confirmed blurry/pixelated issue when zooming in all the way. Incidentally, this seems to be related to the 24MB managed heap restriction, which seems a bit low especially when google coders say you shouldn't use native heap allocation too much.
Anyway, You are right, I'm lost too without htc sense gallery and there is no way to port it at the moment. I've found that when I need to zoom all the way in a photo I can use pictureviewer, which has no navigation though.
PS justpictures sorta works, however it's the slowest and most choppy gallery I've seen on android

Definitely no slowness, pixelation (etc) here. Gallery app is the only sluggish one for me. Maybe check you have enough mem space free before opening the app... Known to slow down most apps and make them sluggish on Android.
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th3 said:
Definitely no slowness, pixelation (etc) here. Gallery app is the only sluggish one for me. Maybe check you have enough mem space free before opening the app... Known to slow down most apps and make them sluggish on Android.
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Nobody said stock gallery is slow, please read carefully the post. Next, take a high definition picture, 5 M Pixel or more, then open it on your computer and on your phone. Zoom in all the way on your phone and compare the result to the same level of detail on the computer.
This is also confirmed by Google, both in eclair and froyo.
This is also completely unrelated to the quantity of free memory, but rather by the fixed limit of memory allocation in the managed heap. I can post the link of code.google if you want to read a very technical discussion about it.

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Nobody said stock gallery is slow, please read carefully the post. Next, take a high definition picture, 5 M Pixel or more, then open it on your computer and on your phone. Zoom in all the way on your phone and compare the result to the same level of detail on the computer.
This is also confirmed by Google, both in eclair and froyo.
This is also completely unrelated to the quantity of free memory, but rather by the fixed limit of memory allocation in the managed heap. I can post the link of code.google if you want to read a very technical discussion about it.
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Your exactly right and you know what I exactly mean.
Because in the HTC Sense picture viewer you can quite clearly see the difference when you zoom into the pictures compared to the stock android gallery and you can zoom in more with the HTC Sense picture viewer.
I think i would be fine though if in the stock gallery you could at least sort them by name and size. Only sorts it by date, quite annoying.

I might be wrong but I think the issue was even worse on 2.1

andycted said:
Nobody said stock gallery is slow, please read carefully the post. Next, take a high definition picture, 5 M Pixel or more, then open it on your computer and on your phone. Zoom in all the way on your phone and compare the result to the same level of detail on the computer.
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I read fine the first time. You've misunderstood me.
1. The "etc" meant in reference to any issue you mentioned including "slow/choppy/blurry"; they're all non-issues for me on both viewers - Sense and JustPictures! - except the stock Gallery app. That's sluggish and blurry, which as you correctly mention, is well known for the latter.
2. Except for testing, I never need to put high def images to view on the phone, ever, and the phone taken images give me no problem viewing in any of the 3 apps. AFAICT, only high quality pics are problematic in the stock Gallery app for me. I'll test more on more free time.
3. I didn't mention the blurry stock Gallery zoom could possibly be fixed by more free memory, but to your "most choppy/slowest viewer" remark for JustPictures!. Android routinely performs dirt slow for any app loading a lot of data when the memory space is sub ~45MB.
4. As to the discussion links re the stock Gallery limitations; I've already seen them priorly.
Late Edit: thankfully, you linked the crappy browser image quality pic I complained about there too: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6021
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(aaargh, damn tapatalk lost 20 rows I was writing here...) hehe to sum up
- we miss HTC gallery
- stock android gallery is a problem for me when reading small text in big pictures or details in landscapes. Sometimes it's not very crisp anyway when zoomed in.
- justpictures is slow on my overclocked desire, plenty of memory free . Don't know, some market comments say the same. I also have some problems with pinch zoom. Shame because it looks nice.
Ps: I'm starting to hate tapatalk! Hehe
Edit: by the way, increasing heap size in build. Prop does not help

I think I've found a way to make justpictures bearable (for me)
Small thumbnails, no tilt, portrait mode. The first time you go through your photos it will be a pain (stops and shutters all the time) but subsequently, while not very smooth, can be used.
Pinch zoom is still a bit of a mistery to me: once you start zooming it's quite hard if not impossible to change photo by sliding.
I don't know if it's stock behaviour but I also can't maintain the max level of zoom and keep panning, as soon as I take the finger off it zooms out.. .

I've finished more thorough testing now.
You are right. The Sense viewer zoom level quality and picture sharpness is by far the better of the three viewers. I've tried with up-to 8MB and 8MP images. A 24MB and a 26MB high resolution image fails any level of zoom on all viewers though.
Re the Gallery viewer; I don't fully understand how their heap size explanation holds across all test cases when I have 192KB ~1000x1500 JPEGs giving the same poor zoom quality even at a low zoom level.
Re JustPictures!; during testing I could not replicate any of your earlier mentioned issues leaving it all stock... until I by chance cleared the cache. Ever since, it has been slug slow loading/navigating, choppy and >2MB pics as well as high resolution pics render blurry. You can zoom in more than the Gallery viewer and retain fidelity but no where close to the acuity the Sense viewer achieves. It seems inconsistent and unstable. You can check it out, but I take this recommendation back.
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andycted said:
Pinch zoom is still a bit of a mistery to me: once you start zooming it's quite hard if not impossible to change photo by sliding.
I don't know if it's stock behaviour but I also can't maintain the max level of zoom and keep panning, as soon as I take the finger off it zooms out.. .
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I've never been able to change image while zoomed, and panning while zoomed always resets the zoom for me. Understandably, not ideal at all.
The album sort/view options are the only current advantages it holds above the Sense viewer for me.
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Yup, justpictures looks ok at first and they are updating often, but it's quite messed up in some stuff deep down. If you notice, even when it has cached the images, while scrolling fast enough many still show 'working' in place of the image itself and the choppiness isn't completely gone.
The zoom interface is the last bit that makes it non-recommendable, I think they tried to do something smart there, but failed.
About stock gallery: In fact it's quite strange that heap size could restrict viewing small images correctly, nontheless it's a restriction which I guess hampers proper developement and could force developers to be lazy and just avoid to go near that limit anyway. Stock gallery is from the same guys that developed cooliris for the web and while it always looked awesome, it lacked a bit in functionality.
I think the argument on that google code thread against native stack use doesn't hold much water.

Questions about pictures taken

I may have missed it if it was posted in a different forum/thread, but how does one import or send pictures from device at the full quality taken? I'm noticing that when I e-mail or MMS photos I took on this 5M camera, they are being resized and converted. I suppose this is fine, but I can't find an option to send them at full size and quality. Also, I've tried importing photos to my computer using iPhoto and just Zune->copying to my computer, but in both instances I am finding that the files are 1.5-2.5MB. Anyone having this issue, or know what I'm doing wrong here?

Images are always compressed, so a 5MP picture will be around 1MB or less. You have to look at the dimension of the pictures, I am seeing 2560x1920, which is roughl 5 million pixels.

[email protected] said:
Images are always compressed, so a 5MP picture will be around 1MB or less. You have to look at the dimension of the pictures, I am seeing 2560x1920, which is roughl 5 million pixels.
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Do you mean images are always compressed on WP7 or in general on mobile phones? I should have clarified, I was aware that the resolution was the same, but it does seem to be lower in picture quality. Maybe my eyes are fooling me...but anyway, I'm pretty sure I've taken pictures on my previous phones and was able to import them one way or another uncompressed.

Well, I agree the pictures kinda suck. I've had better luck with turning on anti-shake. I am surprised, because I left a captivate for this, and the cap's pictures were much better, and I would imagine it is about the same hardware.

[email protected] said:
Well, I agree the pictures kinda suck. I've had better luck with turning on anti-shake. I am surprised, because I left a captivate for this, and the cap's pictures were much better, and I would imagine it is about the same hardware.
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I actually quite like most of the pictures when viewed on the phone...the problem is viewing them anywhere else. On SkyDrive, they're compressed, and when syncing it to my computer through the two methods I mentioned, they are also somewhat compressed (though not as bad as SkyDrive). I'm sure somewhere on the phone they exist uncompressed...I just don't know how to get at them. I imagine this phone will produce great pictures once the software is fixed a bit. And while this isn't photo quality related, it would be fantastical if they fixed it so our settings saved...

Zune syncs the "full quality" image. Your eyes are probably fooling you. It's also a difference between the SAMOLED screen and your computer's LCD/CRT.
All images are compressed on pretty much any/every camera unless you're shooting in RAW with a DSLR (or one of the few non SLRs that can shoot RAW). JPG is a compression format.

Stock photo viewer killing image details

So yesterday I email myself a few pics of my car I had on my I pad. When I check them out I notice they are low on detail. I was thinking what the heck higher Res and less detail? I compared the same pic on the ipad and instantly notice the difference. Thinking its impossible I jump into the market and look for another photoviewer and low and behold it displays all that missing detail. I started comparing all my pics on the zoom in both apps on my device (for reference I downloaded viewpic basically it was the first free app I found).
Anyone else notice this? Looks like the stock gallary app is helping to hurt the first impression of the screen and camera when checking out pics. Thankfully it ain't a hardware thing.

Until Google fixes the stock viewer, here is a solution that works for me.
arrtoodeetoo said:
Q: Photos in the stock viewer are blurred when scaled to fit the screen. How do I view my DLSR pics and other high quality photos without the blur?
A: Download QuickPic from the market (free). It's a photo viewer that scales correctly without garbling photos.
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Yep, I have noticed the same, and my Vibrant had the same issue with it's gallery App when it first came out, it was eventually fixed.

Xoom gallery question

So I loaded a ton of high res photos straight from my DSLR forming a digital portfolio on my Xoom, but one thing is really irking me. When you first launch the gallery, the image is rendered somewhat fuzzy until you pinch and zoom in - then it becomes nice and sharp. Has anyone found a way around this? Should I be resizing to a ceettain size before transferring to the Xoom?
It's just a tad annoying that when swiping through photos in a gallery, they're all previewed almost in a low res fashion. Id hate to have to zoom in just to show how a photo is supposed to look.
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Android Gallery sucks ... period.
Google does not spend time for that.
Go to the Market and get "QuickPic".
That's better.
GrimmySnarf said:
So I loaded a ton of high res photos straight from my DSLR forming a digital portfolio on my Xoom, but one thing is really irking me. When you first launch the gallery, the image is rendered somewhat fuzzy until you pinch and zoom in - then it becomes nice and sharp. Has anyone found a way around this? Should I be resizing to a ceettain size before transferring to the Xoom?
It's just a tad annoying that when swiping through photos in a gallery, they're all previewed almost in a low res fashion. Id hate to have to zoom in just to show how a photo is supposed to look.
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i resize to 1600x1200 to save storage mostly but the images show well in both stock gallery and QuickPics. Higher Res takes a second to resolve to full detail but it should do so without the pinch and zoom trick. QuickPics saves the full screen view once you view the image the first time so it is faster on both viewing and slide shows.

GrimmySnarf said:
So I loaded a ton of high res photos straight from my DSLR forming a digital portfolio on my Xoom, but one thing is really irking me. When you first launch the gallery, the image is rendered somewhat fuzzy until you pinch and zoom in - then it becomes nice and sharp. Has anyone found a way around this? Should I be resizing to a ceettain size before transferring to the Xoom?
It's just a tad annoying that when swiping through photos in a gallery, they're all previewed almost in a low res fashion. Id hate to have to zoom in just to show how a photo is supposed to look.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App
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Never experienced that. I loaded my hi-res pics but it seems fine. Its pretty I like it, the 3d gallery.
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Hi all,
I'm developing a full resolution image viewer "Gallery illusion HD" that supports big "jpgs" and displays pictures with no quality loss. Now is in public beta and can be download free on the Android Market. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Regards,
Mobileillusion

You should add basic viewer functions as scrolling by finger, rotate and so on.

moriakoj said:
You should add basic viewer functions as scrolling by finger, rotate and so on.
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Hi moriakoj,
thanks for the feedback. I will add those features in next versions.
The application is intended, above all, to see the details of high-resolution images (> 10 MP). Most viewers downscale the image in such images.
Regards,
Mobileillusion.

Take pictures in a smaller size?

I have a dumb question I don't think the stock camera has this option but is it possible to save pictures taken from the stock camera app in a smaller size?
I mean it's great and all that I have this 16mp shooter but if you're just snapping a quick reference pic to share with friends sometimes 5mp or less will do.
Cameras used to come with some selection of small medium and large or quality settings which is effectively a size reduction I don't see this option anymore.
It's not a huge deal but it does mean that I get into the habit of dropping the size before I send things with another image editor.

vortex-5 said:
I have a dumb question I don't think the stock camera has this option but is it possible to save pictures taken from the stock camera app in a smaller size?
I mean it's great and all that I have this 16mp shooter but if you're just snapping a quick reference pic to share with friends sometimes 5mp or less will do.
Cameras used to come with some selection of small medium and large or quality settings which is effectively a size reduction I don't see this option anymore.
It's not a huge deal but it does mean that I get into the habit of dropping the size before I send things with another image editor.
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I found Google camera apk had this option..
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Well, the stock cam won't let you choose resolution as far as I know, but if you really wish to save a couple of MBs you can take photos in a different aspect ratio (16:9 or 1:1 which are cropped versions of the main 4:3 ratio).
Although, I must admit the solution posted above (Google cam) will definitely serve you better. Cheers!