PhotoShare Digital Photo Album and Frame
by Photoco Inc.
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: Photoco Inc.Model: PL7BLK
Product features:
- 7-inch TFT-LCD screen; selectable 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio and 480 x 234 resolution
- No PC required; supports SD and Memory Stick formats
- Playback modes include zoom, slideshow, thumbnail; connect to your TV and share your photos on the big screen
- USB interface for easy connection to your computer; PC and Mac compatible
- Includes stylish frame for display on your desk or table
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of PhotoShare Digital Photo Album and Frame
Customer Review: For the price and features, you can't beat it, and the quality is great!
Summary: 5 Stars
What makes this item better than the competition is the ability to go portable with it. You can leave it in the frame, or carry it with you. And it's priced pretty low compared to other 7 inch frames.
Some have noted about poor quality images. I do not find this to be the case, as long as the images are at the proper size or aspect ratio. I did a comparison to a popular 5.6 inch frame that I saw in a retail store and the quality of the photoshare was definately better. They have thought ahead so the LCD is viewable from the front, top, and sides, but not the bottom. A lot of frames (including the one I saw) look greyish and have distorted the color of images when viewed from an upper angle, the opposite is true for this viewer, which makes it perfect for desktop display. There are vents on the frame and the viewer, the book says you can hang it but it also says not to block the vents, and there is no place on the back for wall mounting it.
Something none of the product descriptions mention, is the ability for this frame to play back AVI files. Keep in mind there is no sound, but it's an unlisted feature nonetheless.
I think a lot of the issues that people have described here have been related to the non-standard aspect ratio of this device and poor understanding of resizing images. Widescreen on this device isn't really the standard 16:9 widescreen that we see on HD TV's for instance. This device actually has an aspect ratio of 16:9.75 (-/+ 0.10). If you are just using this as a frame, and nothing more, then images sized to 960x468 should be just fine for slideshows and using it as a digital picture frame.
If you have no use for the zoom feature, resize the width (the first number) to 960 and check the box to maintain the aspect ratio (a checkbox on most resize dialogs). After you have resized it move to the next section. If you size all the images at the native res, you can fit 2500+ jpegs on one 256mb card! If you want to use the zoom and don't care about the disk space used by the images, leave the original alone, as I will describe how to crop properly. If you don't have a good program to resize images, try IrfanView (free).
To get the pics to the proper aspect, with LITTLE TO NO BLACKSPACE (maybe 1 pixel on top and bottom, but not sides of an image cropped to 16x9.75) on the borders, download and install JPEGCrops (opensource/free), which you can find on Google by just typing in: JPEGCrops (I recently used this app to crop 1500+ resized images, 200 at a time, it's great for doing multiple files and folders full of images)
Setup Custom Aspect Ratio in JPEGCrops:
1) Click file -> preferences
2) Click Add
3) Enter PhotoShare for description
4) Type is: Fixed aspect ration w/o units
5) Size should be 16 x 9.75
6) Click OK
7) Select PhotoShare as Default Aspect
8) Click OK
Use JPEGCrops to set the images to the proper aspect:
1) Click file -> open folder to open a whole folder of pics
Click file -> open file to open individual files
2) Once you have all the files you want to edit opened and
onscreen, make sure PhotoShare is selected in the dropdown.
It should be, if you set as default.
3) Move the boxes up and down to highlight what you want to cut out
You can also resize and move the boxes at the corners!
Whatever you have in the box will be output in the proper aspect
but possibly a lower quality depending on the originals resolution
4) After you have adjusted the boxes on all of the images
Click edit -> crop all images
5) Your cropped images will be in your my documents folder under "Cropped"
6) Close JPEGCrops
Notes for JPEGCrops:
I would only recommend opening no more than 100 images at a time
300+ will make the program throw up some really nice error messages
If you want to use pictures taken in portrait mode, you can just open them and uncheck the flip aspect box. If you plan to use the frame in portrait mode all the time, you can just leave the flip aspect box checked and crop them just as described above.
If you run into errors in the middle of using JPEGCrops, I would
suggest turning down the thumbnail size to reduce it's memory
usage. You can do this by opening JPEGCrops, click file, then
preferences. Check the advanced settings box, then select the
visuals tab, specify 400 or 200 for the "height of huge images",
then click the special tab, and change the cache from 50mb to
100mb. You can further tweak these values, after doing this it was stable opening 200 images at once (I have 1gb of RAM).
If you didn't resize your images (and you intend to use the zoom or don't care about the space), they will now be in the right aspect ratio and will display without issue.
I would also suggest, if using more than 200 pictures in one folder or the root of the flash card, format it using fat32 to avoid copy errors.
btw -- I have bought three of these
I hope this helps, the reviews here don't do this item justice!
Description of PhotoShare Digital Photo Album and Frame
The PhotoShare digital photo album and frame will allow you to enjoy and share every photo you have ever taken! Display the PhotoShare on your desk or table in the stylish frame or insert the optional lithium-ion battery and take it with you anywhere! View photos as thumbnails, full size, or as a slide show. PhotoShare is simple "plug and play" and does not require a computer. If you do have a computer, the PhotoShare is compatible with MAC and PC and comes with a USB cable allowing you to connect and transfer photos. Connect PhotoShare to your TV with the included AVI cable and enjoy your photos on the TV screen. AC adapter is included and PhotoShare is UL approved.Storage & Presentation Materials
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