Hi, I was wondering.
On all the diamond ads and demos, you see contact pictures looking sharp, colourfull and nice in he contact shortcut on TF3D.
When I set my contacts in the shortcut, they look like ****, all blury and like underscalled.
When I look at the used pictures threw the album, they look sharp.
Does anyone know haow to have nice pictures in the contact shortcut?
Thanks
nickytheshaft said:
Hi, I was wondering.
On all the diamond ads and demos, you see contact pictures looking sharp, colourfull and nice in he contact shortcut on TF3D.
When I set my contacts in the shortcut, they look like ****, all blury and like underscalled.
When I look at the used pictures threw the album, they look sharp.
Does anyone know haow to have nice pictures in the contact shortcut?
Thanks
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I've noticed the same. I've also noticed that if you take a picture with your Diamond to use as a contact picture it will be sharp and if you take a high resolution picture of someone and crop it without too much scaling it will also be sharp. I think what we need to know is the optimum dimensions for the contact pics as well as the optimum resolution. I'm sure you'll find it somewhere on the forum if you search.
OK thanks,
I think I'll take a picture with the diamond and open it in photoshop, thenre I will have the good ration.
Thanks
I have seen the solution here somewhere before. It has to do with the file compression that the phone does when you select an image as a contact picture. There is a workaround.
to add a pic for contact go to the htc album select the contact pic from the album and add it to a contact with the menu
If you add contact pictures using Outlook on your PC, or Contacts on WM, then it doesn't save them at very high quality.
If you do it using TF3D, then the images are saved at a higher quality, and stay that way, even when they're syncronised to and from an exchange server or through ActiveSync
I had similar issue. Then, I've used S2V (http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=2432) to set images to contacts and they appear very clear now in the TouchFlo3D. I do not really know why, but if you have time to check please let me know the results
mcwtrekkie said:
If you add contact pictures using Outlook on your PC, or Contacts on WM, then it doesn't save them at very high quality.
If you do it using TF3D, then the images are saved at a higher quality, and stay that way, even when they're syncronised to and from an exchange server or through ActiveSync
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This did the trick thanks
YiannisM said:
I had similar issue. Then, I've used S2V (http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=2432) to set images to contacts and they appear very clear now in the TouchFlo3D. I do not really know why, but if you have time to check please let me know the results
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I'll give it a try, thanks
What you need is go to PEOPLE in TFL3D, and flip to the picture you want to replace, and then click MENU | CHANGE PICTURE. Select any High Res pic you want!
In my previous phones I have been using photoshop to tune my pictures for contacts. I would love to know the resolution for the people/contact images aswell.
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It would be great if my contact photos looked as nice as the demo of Grace Fuller and her friends, but mine seem rather grainy. Anyone have an idea what reso those Diamond sample contact photos were taken at?
I posted the same probleme and got answers.
You have to go to the album, select a picture and add it to your contat threw the album menu and tada, photo contacts look sharp.
Thank again to the people who gave me the answer
nickytheshaft said:
I posted the same probleme and got answers.
You have to go to the album, select a picture and add it to your contat threw the album menu and tada, photo contacts look sharp.
Thank again to the people who gave me the answer
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thanks !! that resolved my issue too !!!
and the perfect resolution is 256*256 at 12 kb
Looking for some help with two minor annoyances with the Diamond:
1. my photo contacts are far grainier and poor than the samples shown by HTC. What reso did they use? Any good software that can help with creating good contact pix?
2. There is a setting within WM on other phones to show just the next appointment or upcoming appointments. This seems to have been disbaled in the Diamond. I'd like to have more than just the next appointment appear when I scroll the home screen.
Thanks for any help.
HTC's demo contact pics would have been professionally photographed, scaled and then selected. Its called marketing ;-)
If you take some good pics of people's faces on a digital SLR or with the phone camera under very good lighting, and then use Photoshop to perfect them, you will get the same results.
About the contact pics, do a search. There was another topic about this.
It rescales the pictures badly unless you add them to your contacts in a certain way (some menu, i forget now).
The Windows Contact list contains photos but stores them at a very small resolution - so in the HTC contacts list they look terrible.
To fix this, first highlight which contact you want in the htc contacts window so that it's on top, then hit the menu button and select Change Picture.
Select your higher quality image and voila, looks great now.
Of course as this is not part of the normal contacts list, it's not synchronised and you need to redo it all again if you do a hard reset or upgrade roms.
Oh well
someone1234 said:
About the contact pics, do a search. There was another topic about this.
It rescales the pictures badly unless you add them to your contacts in a certain way (some menu, i forget now).
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LOL - from the album, NOT from Outlook. Do that, and the photos will be all nice and shiny
upcoming appointments
rlintacoma said:
Looking for some help with two minor annoyances with the Diamond:
1. my photo contacts are far grainier and poor than the samples shown by HTC. What reso did they use? Any good software that can help with creating good contact pix?
2. There is a setting within WM on other phones to show just the next appointment or upcoming appointments. This seems to have been disbaled in the Diamond. I'd like to have more than just the next appointment appear when I scroll the home screen.
Thanks for any help.
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I have this isue about upcomming appointments as well. Does anyone have a comment og solution?
Whels said:
I have this isue about upcomming appointments as well. Does anyone have a comment og solution?
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There have been many comments. You can find them using the Search function.
However, there is no solution...
Thanks for the help on the contact photos. Using the People menus made all the difference.
am i wrong, or the pictures used in touch flow for the contacts are way worst?
they looks... compressed... A LOT
[i suppose this is one reason the tf3d is faster]
diamondino said:
am i wrong, or the pictures used in touch flow for the contacts are way worst?
they looks... compressed... A LOT
[i suppose this is one reason the tf3d is faster]
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These pictures are from outlook and are limited in size. Try to add higher resolution pictures from TF3D.
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These pictures are from outlook and are limited in size. Try to add higher resolution pictures from TF3D.
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How do you add pictures from TF3D?
I have noticed that when you add picture to contact from the Album the quality of the picture is better than if you add picture from contact edit.
Even when you use the same picture.
rexxxxx said:
I have noticed that when you add picture to contact from the Album the quality of the picture is better than if you add picture from contact edit.
Even when you use the same picture.
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hmm weird.
i'll give a try
rexxxxx said:
I have noticed that when you add picture to contact from the Album the quality of the picture is better than if you add picture from contact edit.
Even when you use the same picture.
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Great tip, I was trying everything, but didn't find this option. Pictures are much better this way.
rexxxxx said:
I have noticed that when you add picture to contact from the Album the quality of the picture is better than if you add picture from contact edit.
Even when you use the same picture.
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can confirm this looks alot better this way.
why outlook do that??
I don't use photos for my TF3D contacts, I just want to use ones like the standard grey Manilla ones.
But I notice if I don't choose a photo for a contact its sets the default to a "male" photo. I would like to find the "female" picture for this.
Is there anywhere I can find this?
I tried using these and cutting them individually but they appear blurry and not sharp when I view them in the contacts tab
The trick is...
..to find them in the album and then use the 'Set as contact' and it will give you a much higher res looking version. It seems to compress the images when setting the image for a contact in some cases.
Thanks, I tried that too, but it still doesnt look as clear as it should for some reason
Hi Everybody,
is there a way to prevent picture dithering in TF3D on the Diamond2?
I have very nice looking background pictures, but TF3D dithers them very strong, so they look terrible.
I know, that WM 6.1 only supports 65k colors, but the same pictures look very good, when I look at them with a picture viewer on the Diamond2, but not so in TF3D as a background image.
Does anybody know how to turn this behavior off or how to prepare the images right, so that they look as great as with a dedicated picture viewer?
Similar problem with the contacts pictures. What started out as a nice sharp image ends up as a blurred mess when TF3D's finished with it. Any hints on improving this would be welcome.
Contact Pictures:
Don't start within the contact. Start with the picture album, use there the menu to add to the contact. Works better. And sharp.
Pete_S said:
Similar problem with the contacts pictures. What started out as a nice sharp image ends up as a blurred mess when TF3D's finished with it. Any hints on improving this would be welcome.
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Have you taken you contact pics using your TD2 camera in contact picture mode? mine come out perfectly!
Thanks, guys, I'll try both. I don't tend to use "contact pic" mode with the camera, 'cos I don't know in advance it's going to be a contact picture, if you see what i mean!
You have to choose the picture from the contacts. Add a favorite contact, and from there add a picture. This results in a very sharp image.
Adding an image through Outlook and syncing it results in a blurry image. Have no idea why. This device has plenty of bugs.