7-inch TFT-LCD screen; selectable 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio and 480 x 234 resolution
No PC required; supports SD and Memory Stick formats
Playback modes include zoom, slideshow, thumbnail; connect to your TV and share your photos on the big screen
USB interface for easy connection to your computer; PC and Mac compatible
Includes stylish frame for display on your desk or table
Product Details
Product Dimensions:
12 x 10 x 3 inches ; 3 pounds
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
ASIN: B000BMVITE
Item model number: PL7BLK
Average Customer Review:
This review is from: PhotoShare Digital Photo Album and FrameThe Photoshare 7" is not perfect and it's not necessarily the best digital frame money can buy. But for only $100 or so, it is an excellent deal. Some of the poor reviews stem from the lack of understanding on how to size the images. Once that's done properly, the unit displays them beautifully. I've had friends over and they are instantly drawn to the Photoshare, and want to just sit there and watch it cycle through my family pics.After some trial and error late one evening, here is a workflow that yields very good quality:Photos should only be sized to all "portrait" style or all "landscape" style pictures for your slide show. If you mix the two orientations together it won't work. Since most people take all their pictures in landscape anyway, you should be fine. I'm a media producer and graphic designer so I tend to take most of my pictures in portrait mode, which works just as well too. Just choose an orientation for your digital frame, and then conform all the photos to that and you'll be fine. Occasionally one won't quite fit and you can add some small black borders to it if you need to.First import the pics for the Photoshare into Photoshop, or some other picture program and then follow these steps:Landscape Workflow:* Scale the width only by 76%* Set the crop tool to 740x544 pixels and crop to this size, centering the subject(s) in the picture* Save as a jpg, with a quality level that yields a 50-100kb fileThe pictures will now cover about 96% of the Photoshare LCD and they do not look distorted at all. Portrait mode works the same, with just an extra step or two needed. Remember, the pics should be 740x544 resolution, squashed on the x-axis to about 80% of their original width.Portrait Workflow:* Scale height only by 76%* Rotate CCW 90 degrees* Set the crop tool to 740x544 pixels and crop, centering the subject(s) in the picture* If image crop cuts out too much of the person(s) then go back before step 3 and add some small black borders by increasing the canvas an inch or so in the width, then crop again.* Save as a jpg, with a quality level that yields a 50-100kb fileThe only other thing you might want to do is reduce the brightness and color saturation of your pics slightly, as the LCD cranks up the brightness and the colors a bit too much for my tastes.In summary, the main problem seems to be that the Photoshare people do not help the average person in this part of the task. If they had a small program that someone could download to do these few steps, that would go a long way toward making a high-quality slide show for anyone. And a happy customer that proudly displays their digital Photoshare frame is a plus for everyone.If you are able to follow these steps, your slideshows will look great, and the unit will be worth the money.Additional note: I recently made a set of Photoshop actions to do these steps automatically. If you would like the actions, contact me and I would be happy to email them to you.Update Sept. 9, 2006: I slightly revised the above steps, due to a firmware update. The Photoshare now stretches (expands) the image a bit more to use more of the screen space. Unfortunately the several hundred pics that I converted are now all a little stretched out! Oh well, I need to lose a few pounds anyway......
This review is from: PhotoShare Digital Photo Album and FrameThis is my second digital picture frame of the holiday season (the other being the somewhat legendary CVS deal). The price on this unit is certainly attractive, and the leather box frame that comes with it is nice. It also has a wide-screen format (native LCD resolution is 480x234, per their tech support). The picture resolution is fine for viewing across the room (at greater than 5' or more, the way 99% of all framed photos are reviewed). The leather box/frame looks nice on the shelf as well. The unit will only accept memory stick and SD/MMC cards, which should cover the majority of applications, though I still regularly use compact flash. The operating system is pretty simple to follow, allowing you to review pictures individually, or to set up a slide show. It will operate within a specific file folder on a card, or with all the files on a card. You can zoom in and rotate each picture. There isn't a remote control, so you have to use the controls on the unit to perform any operations, including turning it on and off. Unfortunately, once you put the unit into the leather frame/box, all the controls are covered. As another reviewer also noted, turning the unit off resets it, so you have to remove it from the frame/box and set it back to slide show mode everytime you turn it on. If there was a remote, it wouldn't be as inconvenient.My major complaint about this unit is that I have yet to find a picture resolution that isn't distorted by the wide screen LCD. I initially cropped some images to fit the native 480x234 screen ratio. However this left the pictures stretched out on the sides with black bars at the top and bottom. Then I increased the height by 25 pixels for several different iterations, but I never could get a picture that wasn't distorted in the horizontal plane (stretched too wide). Given this glitch, you can only really view scenes with people at a...
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