Slideshow Viewer

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Bart_Wood
Sep 3, 2007
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Fellow Forum Members:

In the old days of roll-film cameras, exposed film was taken to a brick-and-mortar photoshop, and we viewed the finished 4×6" prints. To share them, my wife Nancy would put them in her purse and show them off.

I’m a new user to Photoshop Elements v.5. At the moment, I have a 45-photo slideshow with captions that I want to share with friends. What I need is a battery-operated viewer that Nancy can put in her large purse. It should have an LCD screen of about 4×6" size. Sorry, 2.5" won’t do it, and a separately-carried laptop would be too cumbersome. Also, I don’t need a super gadget with lots of bells and whistles.

Is there anything on the market that would satisfy my requirements? Any suggestions or specific recommendations will be appreciated. If nothing is available, maybe I can make a million dollars creating one myself (smile).

Bart in Southern California
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Rob_Keijzer
Sep 3, 2007
Bart,

The days of carrying heavy computers etc around are over. In this day and age web-connected computers are everywhere. you don’t even have to carry media with your photo’s anymore, just a USB memory stick with a link to them.

No more Kodak Carousels in a backpack.

Rob
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John_Joslin
Sep 3, 2007
Just google "LCD Photo frame". There are dozens out there from $20 up.
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Daryl_Pritchard
Sep 3, 2007
Bart,

Rob’s idea is the easiest by far, assuming you have access to a PC for all situations where you want to share your photos.

Apart from that, the least expensive and battery-powered photo viewer I can think of would be something such as this Coby 7" Portable DVD Player < http://www.amazon.com/Coby-TF-DVD7107-Portable-DVD-Player/dp /B000EN8A7S/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0396118-6488039?ie=UTF8& s=electronics&qid=1188842415&sr=1-1>. It shows JPEG compatibility, so I’d think it should offer the ability to step through images one at a time. Of course, you’d have to burn CDs or DVDs for it. A more expensive alternative are the multimedia viewers or "image tanks" that are designed to download digital memory cards to their internal hard drive, so as to free up a card when you’re in the field. Most have nice displays and I can certainly testify to the "Epson Photo Fine LCD" being excellent….I have an Epson P-2000, about $500 and now discontinued, that I lucked into it for about half-price, although new. I see that Amazon shows a new P-3000 < http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J3ZGXY/ref=pd_cp_p_0/00 2-0396118-6488039?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4 1&pf_rd_r=0Z0HBWVFD0N6E85KPT36&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd _p=250314001&pf_rd_i=B0006SKK4C> which I presume supercedes my P-2000 and is $299.99 after a $100 rebate. That may still be far more pricey than you want to pay if view-only features are all that you need. While I don’t know much about the Coby brand as far as quality goes, that portable DVD player does seem to have some favorable reviews at Amazon.

Hope that helps,

Daryl
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John_Joslin
Sep 3, 2007
I bought one for a friend. It is battery or mains power has an internal memory for about 50 pictures and also takes SD cards. It has its own slide show controller.
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Bart_Wood
Sep 4, 2007
John Joslin & Others:

Thanks for responses to my query re. LCD photo frames. I viewed several web sites and found a leading candidate: Digital Spectrum NuVue 700 Plus. Most frames only input from memory cards. The 700 Plus also has USB connectivity, which is essential for me. Best price I found for the item was $90.

The 45 edited photos from my Canon PowerShot A640 camera are the default 10 megapixels each. However, the 700 Plus only accepts photos up to 6 MP. I certainly don’t need 10 MP for the 480 x 234 resolution of the 700 Plus LCD.

So, I’m writing to ask whether I can reduce the 10 MP before exporting the photos to the LCD viewer.

Bart in Southern California
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Daryl_Pritchard
Sep 4, 2007
Bart,

Sure you can. Just as you state the 700 Plus LCD only displays 480×234 pixels, you don’t need any more than that for that specific purpose. I don’t know what the features of PS Elements 5 is (you’d do well to post your question in that product forum), but if it has a crop tool similar to Photoshop, you could use that to set up a crop size of 480×234 pixels, ignoring the resolution since that’s irrelevant for a display device. Then, for each image you open, just crop the image as desired using the preset dimensions as a guide, apply the crop, and save the cropped image as a new file (preserving your high-resolution original).

Regards,

Daryl
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clifford_hager
Sep 4, 2007
Cropping will remove part of your image that you may not want removed. Cropping from 10 MP down to a 480 x 234 image will remove 98% of your image.

You need to re-size the image, not crop it.

Simply select Image from the menu, then Image Size and change the width from (3500 px?) to 480.
Save it on a memory stick or directly to your display device and you are done.

Don’t change the size of the original photo, because this small display size will not print nicely if your decise you want paper prints later.
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Daryl_Pritchard
Sep 4, 2007
Clifford,

"Cropping" probably wasn’t the best word to use except for that I was referring to use of the Crop Tool…whether you use it to actually crop or not. When using the Crop Tool, you have the added efficiency of an image resize being performed on the fly without need for that extra step. For example a 1600×1200 original image being cropped to 400×300, would lose none of the original image content if the tool was used to fully encompass the image at it’s outer edges, but it would resize it to the desired 400×300 dimensions. However, if only a portion of the original image was desired and creatively cropped, then you have the advantage of cropping and resizing as needed in one step.

Note, there is a separate Image > Crop command also, which simply crops an image to the rectangular limits of a selection. I am not referring to taking that approach.

Regards,

Daryl

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