Photos application... RUBBISH!

[BergerFan]

I've only recently realised that iTunes optimises and scales all photos down to the exact screen resolution of the iPhone.

How stupid is this? What if you wanted high res images on there?? And what's the point of zooming in to a photo if it'll just end up getting blurry with no added pixel information??

Does anyone think that Apple might update iTunes to allow for un-optimised synching? Or maybe a future firmware upgrade to the iPhone itself?

Anyone know any jailbreaks or ways around this problem?

It pisses me off too. What makes it worse, is that the 'optimization' makes the bulk size of all the photos many times more bigger than they really are. I have 143 photos(132mb) on my iPhone, yet the total size of them in iTunes is 412mb WTF?

 

[stevearm]

It pisses me off too. What makes it worse, is that the 'optimization' makes the bulk size of all the photos many times more bigger than they really are. I have 143 photos(132mb) on my iPhone, yet the total size of them in iTunes is 412mb WTF?

But... "It just works"

🙄

 

[Shytes&Gyggles]

Size matters -- So Ya wanna big pic? Solution:

Newbie here. Not sure if anyone is still on this thread... Ok, I had the exact same dilemna - I wanted a fully scale-able and omnidirectional-scrollable OFFLINE map of London on my iPhone 3G. Specifically, I wanted a nice-resolution scan of a printed London travel map.

DO THIS:
1) open your large-format RGB photo/scan/etc raster image in Photoshop*. Save it as a "high-quality-print" Photoshop PDF format
2) upload the Photoshop PDF to your iphone using FileMagnet App (worth shelling out the $4.50 even if it (sometimes) crashes after 🙂 the upload)
3) DONE (the image will be accessable via FileMagnet). Looks dandy, Andy.

* using Photoshop CS3 on a Mac... not sure if there's an equally good imaging program that will do as nice a job... I tried creating a PDf using PaintNet (free) on my Compaq laptop ("printing" via CutePDF Writer (free)), but the end iPhone-display-results were not nearly as nice a Photoshop's PDF... even tho I used the same source raster image for both.