Resolution of contact pictures

[Guest whatmeworry]

I did a search and found a few topics around contact photos but none that answers my question.

basically I have added photos for me key contacts for use on both the HTC home contacts tab and the touch cube contacts screen. In both cases though the images have ended up looking unpleasantly pixellated despite being of a decent quality (about 50kb) and looking fine when viewed using HTC camera album.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[Guest hotphil]

I know the ones I took with the Contacts Picture function of the camera do much the same (look awful), but if I took a normal picture (or even added a profile picture from Facebook or somewhere) they look pretty good.

[Guest dolbe666]

i use photo contacts pro andf it does the contact pictures at 200x200 pixals although the size is only 5.85kb its noth size of the picture its the resolution thats important. even the picture in full screen at 200x200 doesnt pixalate. try downoading the trial of photo contacts and let it make the contact pictures, then save them to another folder and you can uninstall photo contacts pro but keep the renderd pictures. it would be a free way of rendering your pictures. thats unless you want to keep photo contacts pro which is a good program in itself

[Guest creamhackered]

Microsoft should support this by default... :(

[Guest whatmeworry]

Thanks guys, may also try photoshopping the pics to 200*200 and see if that helps

[Guest dolbe666]

Thanks guys, may also try photoshopping the pics to 200*200 and see if that helps

I would of suggested a pc app if i knew you had one. ms paint is the quickest way to resize the picture although photoshop will do it also but photoshop tends to save jpg files rather big compared to ms paint

[Guest whatmeworry]

I would of suggested a pc app if i knew you had one. ms paint is the quickest way to resize the picture although photoshop will do it also but photoshop tends to save jpg files rather big compared to ms paint

Well, I've tried with photoshop and they're only marginally better - still really pixelated and nasty depite looking fine if viewed normally. This leads me to suspect that the problem lies with Pocket Outlook rather than the original pics - specifically that the version of the pic it attaches to the contact is deliberately degraded to save space. I will try Photo Contacts pro too to see if that makes any difference.

Does anyone know if there is a way of overiding the size of pic that Outlook attaches to the contact?

[Guest whatmeworry]

Right, in case anyone else is have the same problem I've done some more experimenting with the 200*200 pixel photos that I made using photoshop and found that adding them to contacts using (the rather wonderful and free) PocketCM rather than Outlook gives much better results.

Edited November 27, 2007 by whatmeworry

[Guest Transform]

i downloaded pocketcm but mine shows people in text format. what theme did you download to get people view as pictures only?