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Jayst84

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Hi all,

Just a quick question, is there an easy way to display decent resolution images on the iPad 3/new whatever you want to call it?

I mean without buying a full portfolio app, surely you should be able to display high resolution images using the native photo app. If I sync through iTunes (don't get me started on how much I hate that horrible excuse for a piece of software) it seems to crush the photos to tiny thumbnails. Do you have to upload images and then download them onto the iPad or something to get the full resolution?

Or, am I missing something blindingly obvious? (Likely)

Cheers,

J
 
See if this works:

Locate the iPad in the my computer or finder.

Go into it and keep going until you hit the camera roll.

Then copy and paste the images in the camera roll folder with all the other images.
 
borisnikon said:
See if this works:

Locate the iPad in the my computer or finder.

Go into it and keep going until you hit the camera roll.

Then copy and paste the images in the camera roll folder with all the other images.
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That's what I was hoping I could do. But the iPad doesn't show up like an external drive on my iMac. I thought this was the case with iPhones and whatnot as well. Apple trying to be clever, and making things more complicated than they need to be..

neil_g said:
I don't recall my 2 shrinking images, I pre size them to the screen res but they don't come out as thumbnails.

Presumably you're syncing a picture folder within iTunes?
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Yeah, syncing a folder on my desktop with photos in it. Doesn't matter what resolution files I put in there, they look appalling on the iPad (like blown-up thumbnails). :thinking:
 
Is this on a mac or pc?

I sync through iPhoto on mac and the images seem to resize automatically perfectly for the retina display and are really sharp and look amazing. I thought I would hav to do something to make that happen but it just seemed to work perfectly.

If its on a pc then I can't help as I don't know.
 
Try some searching on spotlight for iPhone or your iPhone name see if you can find it that way...
 
Ok, turns out I still have iphoto, could've sworn I deleted it. Doesn't seem to be helping me though, I still have to sync through iTunes, and select sync photos from iPhoto in the dropdown. I do that, and it still loads up pixilated rubbish on the iPad.

Sometimes Apple really make me miss PCs.

EDIT: Resetting everything seems to have worked. I also tried emailing myself and saving the photo from the email. Of course, this did nothing, and didn't actually save the image anywhere. Good fun trying to get inside the mind of an Apple engineer. :whistling:

Final edit: Seems importing to iPhoto, then syncing that through iTunes is the way to go. Coupled with the odd reset of the ipad. Thanks for the tips everyone.
 
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Jayst84 said:
I also tried emailing myself and saving the photo from the email. Of course, this did nothing, and didn't actually save the image anywhere. Good fun trying to get inside the mind of an Apple engineer. :whistling:
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1. open email on ipad
2. scroll to bottom of email message and tap the image icon, it will download
3. Hold on the image until the "Save Image" option shows.
4. Press "Save image"
5. open photos app
6. Go to Camera Roll

Your image should now be there - does that not happen?
 
I just sync a folder (with subfolders for albums)called iPad photos, then just look in the standard photos app. Works for my iPad and iPhone.
 
Jayst84 said:
Tried it four times before and after a reset, thats enough for me :D syncing seems to be working for now anyway, so I'll see how we go. Until next time... cheers :)
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yeah, fair enough. It's probably working now anyway :thumbs:
 
Byker28i said:
I just sync a folder (with subfolders for albums)called iPad photos, then just look in the standard photos app. Works for my iPad and iPhone.
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Yup,

I have an export preset for Lightroom that produces a jpeg with the long side at 2048 pixels, saved into my iPad sync folder.
 
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