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S2u2 Question: How Do I Resize Gifs???

With S2U2 now supporting .gif formats, how can i resize them without distorting the image? I have a few wallpapers I want to try myself, but I cant figure out what program to use. Can anyone help me?

hhhmmm do you mean on pc or pda?
irfanview is a good program to do it on pc
but you can never do it without it becomming blocky
all resizing do is to multiply the sizes of the pixels
no software can add new infomation to an image
those tv shows where they can keep zooming
and it audo makes the picture unblocky is just tv

I use GIMP 'Scaling' feature to scale a picture to 240 x 320, after I crop out the portion I want.
GIMP allow you to save multiple layers of pictures as gif format and even determine the speed of animation.

So....would GIMP enable you to take a 240x320 and crop it to a 240x240 like cropping a photo in other imaging software?

Yes it sure does.
GIMP may seem a bit 'daunting' for non-graphic designing tool user like me at first glance. but once you play with it for a while, it's not that difficult.

I'll give it a shot...thanks for the quick response!

is there a way to resize these in a batch rather than one by one using gimp? I just spent 30 mins trying to resize one gif and it still wouldnt even let me save it. Can someone give me some quck instructions on resizing using this program por favor?

How many layer are there in your gif file? I think the length of time taken is due to your unfamiliarity with GIMP. Otherwise, it should be pretty fast. Not sure whether there are other software out there which allows an even faster and easier way of doing this.
By the way, a question for the guru. I notice the picture quality dropped a bit after I saved them into gif. Any tips to get around such a drop?

i believe one gif had about 141 layers, is there a LIMIT to how many layers S2U2 .96 will support?

Looking for simple image cropping & scaling utility

I'm looking for a simple to use Windows utility which I can use to crop pictures with a 4:3 frame and will automatically scale to 320x240 in landscape or portrait. Picasa comes close to what I'm looking for but it doesn't have 4:3 as one of the default cropping ratios.
If you know of something that can do this let me know. I have hundreds of pictures I'd like to crop and scale for display on my HTC Touch.
Thanks.
Leon.

for this i use "irfanview" . it's a freeware.
it can respects the original ratios, and even can handle batch processing/resize ..... on big groups of pictures.

I gave irfanview a whirl, it's quite a powerful program but still a little more than I'm looking for. The interface is not what I'm used to.
Any other suggestions?

Image Cropping App??

I have been searching, but no luck on and IMAGE EDITOR so i can crop images on my TP2. (Something with more functionality than just cropping would be nice) All i have found is programs to draw on images. Has anyone else found something that i didn't?

Monotonyallthetime said:
I have been searching, but no luck on and IMAGE EDITOR so i can crop images on my TP2. (Something with more functionality than just cropping would be nice) All i have found is programs to draw on images. Has anyone else found something that i didn't?
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I found a pretty-good free app, "XnView Pocket". Check out www.xnpocket.org.
Then, a really great app-for-pay is Pocket Artist -- almost like Photoshop for Windows Mobile: http://conduits.com/products/artist/ $20.
Despite the name "artist", it has all the tools you can think of for digital image editing (level, curves, etc.)

Monotonyallthetime said:
I have been searching, but no luck on and IMAGE EDITOR so i can crop images on my TP2. (Something with more functionality than just cropping would be nice) All i have found is programs to draw on images. Has anyone else found something that i didn't?
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resco photo viewer pro works for me...rescos got a 7 day trial...but further searching will get u what u want

Increase zoom in album viewer

Is there any registry tweak that will allow you to zoom in closer with the album viewer software. It works great for the files I view but I need to be able to zoom in much more than it allows
Thanks
Mike

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can zoom in as far as the resolution of each image allows. I have some pretty high-res photo's (taken on a digital SLR) and I can zoom in on them until I start to see pixels. If you have low-res pics, you'll start seeing pixels much sooner.
Zooming in any further would be useless since it can't add any detail, you'll just see pixels the size of Lego blocks.
Edit: I realize you may want to examine an image pixel-per-pixel for some reason. In that case, sorry, I can't help.

Thanks for your response, If I could zoom in that close it would be great. I have some hi resolution files anywhere from 6-10 MB which open fine but I can only zoom in about 3 levels. If I could go to the level you describe, it would more than meet my needs.

Hm... Maybe there is a limit after all. I must admit I haven't tried any files in the 10mb region.
I've taken a quick look in the registry but I haven't come across anything that looks like it might solve this. Sorry.

I looked in the registry too but couldn't find any reference to HTCalbum at all. Guess I'll just have to start trying all the demos of the photo apps again...

There's a bunch of stuff under 'HKLM/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum'. Maybe you can find something I overlooked there.

Thanks, don't know why Resco didn't find that ref, I thought it scanned all directories. I couldn't find anything there either. I did change a dword from 2 to 3 in wheelzoomin frames but that didn't do anything obvious so I changed it back. Wonder if HTC support might be able to help, I've read that they're quick to respond to customer software issues but since this is more of a preference issue vs buggy software they may not offer up much.

Yeah, today I copied a 78 mega pixel image (actually a map) to my Leo and to my surprise, I can't zoom more than a certain amount in HTC Album. Anyone know a fix for this?

use resco photo manager, that one allows you to zoom in much more than the htc album. The newest version also supports multi-touch!

thanx! Tried resco; I'm flattered how they implemented multi touch this soon! only a month and a half after Leo's release.
It's really nice and fast (even faster refresh time than htc album) but I wish u could disable multi touch rotation. It's constantly confusing pinch with rotation.

[SOLVED] How would I go about editing photos

Hi,
I'm a new developer and I want to make a simple photo editing app that will have basic brush and crop functions, my question is what's commonly used for this kind of functionality, I've browsed the net but really didn't find much.
I guess I could display a picture and use some kind of loop to capture touch inputs, something like a game loop that's running in the background but how could I use that data to crop a picture?
Is there any APIs for this, any built in functionality?
Thanks in advance!

Just use the Canvas class and paint, crop etc.
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I have the same thought that canvas can serve the purpose very well for cropping and post editing. For cropping function, you may consider to use intent below. I used it for circle cropping. It is relatively simpler than using canvas.
com.android.camera.action.CROP

Thanks,
I've been exploring canvas, I'll use it for painting etc.