Digital Picture Frame Help

I bought a digital picture frame for my mom's birthday. The resolution of the screen is 480 x 234. The majority of the photos of my family and stuff that I am going to load onto it are 2592 x 1952 but I also have images with non standard aspect ratios and resolutions.

What would be the best way to make these look good on the screen? I am really bad with photo work, so please forgive me. Wouldn't I resize them all down to that screen resolution from original?

If I resize them, what would be the best way to?

 

ifran view would do great if you need freeware. If you have photoshop that will work wonders aswell.

Pretty sure tho that the "digital picture frame" is designed to fit all images to screen in aspect strech mode.

They are so expensive tho ... id just get a 19" monitor instead

 

Ya, they are a ripoff it is a 7" 16:9 screen with SD card readers for $90. If you go for the next price bump, they are $180 for a 9 inch 800:600 screen. Then, Circuit City refused to turn them on to see how the screen looked.

But, I should change the resolution of all of the images, right?

 

I don't know much about digital picture frames but the resolution you stated is very strange. The aspect ratio is over 2:1. Most digital cameras take pictures at 4:3.

You can use almost any picture editing program and a calculator to manually resize/crop images. If you have microsoft office, it has a limited image editing program called ms office picture manager which simplifies things a bit. There are probably a ton of freeware programs available to convert mass files. I've used one many years ago called batch converter I think.

I'd actually recommend photoshop as the perfect, but not the simplest, solution to your problems except it costs a lot.

 

You have to try it out, like i said I bet a product like that set for a simple person and not a computer person will do that for you on its own via aspect strech.

because a computer person would just get a 19" monitor for 200$ and have it as a 2nd computer monitor ^^

I have a 37" computer monitor myself, it makes a great aquarium with the 3d aquarium program I somtimes run on it

 

mfmbcpman: Well it is great to see that you have a kind heart to your mom!!

A lot of the graphics programs will do the auto adjustment for you as long as you select the keep same ratio option, and enter the smallest of the resolution width/height. In this case it is height I take it. So enter it as 243, and the graphics program should do the rest.

Alternatively if you want a bit of fun, you can use MS Excel to work it out the size that it is to be converted to. Here is a simple sets of formula and instruction for determining conversion on landscape mode pictures (for portrait, change-focus the axis):

Open a new worksheet and in the following cells, do as provided:
A1: type in Original Photo Size X axis
B1: type in Original Photo Size Y axis
A2: type in 2592
B2: type in 1952
A3: type in formula =B2/A2
B3: type in formula =A2/B2
A4: leave blank
B4: leave blank
A5: type in Convert to Size X Axis
B5: type in Convert to Size Y Axis
A6: type in 480
B6: type in 243
C6: type in formula =B2/B6
D6: type in formula =A2/A6
A7: type in formula =B6/A6
B7: type in formula =A6/B6

Having done all of that, make bold for cells:
A1, B1, A5, B5

Change text colour to something soft (blue) to represent ratios, for cells:
A3, C6, D6, A7, B7

Change text colour to something bright (red) to represent a dependent ratio, for cell:
B3

To get the right ratio, and assumping you want the biggest possible picture, you will use 243 for the Y (vertical) axis.

So to find out value required for the X (horizontal) axis, you can use an analysis tool called 'Goal Seeker'. It is quite easy, just follow this:
Firstly click on cell B7,
then select from the menu TOOLS -> Goal Seek.
In Goal Seek you will be asked to enter 3 items:
Set cell: type in B7 (if not already is)
To value: type in the value as shown in cell B3 (e.g 1.327868852)
By changing cell: type in $A$6

Then click on OK. Then click on OK to retain the changes.

The outcome:
A6 is your convert to size X value
B6 is your convert to size Y value
Difference between C6 and D6 should be kept minimal, where the lower value means better conversion ratio.

Change the values under "Original photo size X" and "Original photo size Y" as required. And use goal seeker with the same approach as described above, however not forgeting to enter the To Value as shown by the red cell (B3).