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jackz5o
09-12-2008, 12:56 AM
Is there a way for me to set iTunes so that it does not automatically optimize and compress my images to crap before transfering to my iPhone?

Is there a way for me to transfer photos/images in full resolution?

Thanks
psylichon
09-12-2008, 01:25 AM
Short answer: No.

There may be a way with a jailbreak media viewer, but I'm not aware of it.
jackz5o
09-12-2008, 01:41 AM
Whats the point of it anyway?

Its our own storage on our own phones.. If we were streaming the images from Apple's servers then I can understand they might want to save some bandwidth from the optimizations but we're viewing them locally so whats the point of compression??
psylichon
09-12-2008, 02:07 AM
Whats the point of it anyway?

Its our own storage on our own phones.. If we were streaming the images from Apple's servers then I can understand they might want to save some bandwidth from the optimizations but we're viewing them locally so whats the point of compression??

My guess is that multitouch zooming would be slower and choppier with image files much larger than 1 MB. Apple is all about keeping things zippy.
styfle
09-12-2008, 03:08 AM
i agree, there should be an option
the weird thing is that the camera roll has better quality than the save pix
gotzaiPhone
09-12-2008, 09:08 AM
i agree, there should be an option
the weird thing is that the camera roll has better quality than the save pix

I'll take that even one further, the pics that I save and go into my camera roll look better than when I put them into my "wallpaper" folder that gets sync'd to my phone.
psylichon
09-15-2008, 03:12 AM
Well the good news is that there is now a solution to this problem in the App Store and it's free for the next week or so, I believe.

Download Air Share. It will allow you to set up your iPhone as a wifi hard drive that you can drag and drop files to. The best thing is, it will also view any file that the iPhone supports. So, without syncing, you can drop full-rez photos to your Air Share folder and view them in full glory with the Air Share app. It is a bit slow to zoom with high-MB pics, but it works! Definitely snag this app before it goes $$$. It's a gem.
stevetim
09-15-2008, 05:46 AM
Could you save the pics into a PDF and read them on iPhone? I don't think they'll compress.
AaronX
10-30-2008, 08:48 AM
Hi, I just got an iPod Touch (my first iPod), and I thought it was soo cool the way I could zoom and scroll in pictures. Then when I tried reading a comic, I found out - hey! It doesn't look like the actual file at all, iTunes compresses the pictures to a barely zoomable level. I did a web search on this and found a few other threads, but I can't find them now*.

Anyway, stevetim is correct! PDFs seem to pass intact. I've only tested a PDF with 1 image, but I'll try converting a whole chapter to PDF now. There is hope for reading comics on an iPod Touch yet..

*Doh, I just found the original thread in my history..