Photo optimization

I really need to sync some photos without them being handled by itunes. Is this doable without installing third party software? I really like browsing photos in the default application...

If you transfer photos from your computer to your iPhone via the iTunes sync process, photos are optimized for viewing on the iPhone which cannot be turned off.
If you want the full resolution of these photos transferred to your iPhone, I believe there is a 3rd party application that provides for this which won't include browsing photos with the default Photos application.
I have no problem with the optimization that occurs with such photos for viewing purposes on my iPhone.

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Disabling Photo Optimization on iPhone

Hi!
I'd like to put high resolution pictures on my iPhone to take advantage of the zoom function. Everytime I sync my pictures, it automatically reformats the pictures, and it turns blurry (as I zoom in) on my iPhone. Is there anyway I can disable the photo optimization when my photos syncs to the iPhone? Or can you suggest any alternative solution?
Thanks!!

My thoughts exactly! It seems like this would be much more of a iTunes feature (adding an option to "optimize" i.e. shitify the images or not) than an iPhone feature. It doesn't seem that all of a useful feature seeing as even most hi-res photos are 1/10th the size of a single song and you will usually have far fewer images than songs. It also make me wonder about how pictures taken with the phone are compressed and about their resolution

Can You Control Photos' Optimization?

Maybe I am misunderstanding this, but my impression is that Photos’ "optimization" option will NOT just store thumbnails on my Macbook Pro and the full-res version on iCloud (which I would love), but according to the preferences, "Originals will also be stored on this Mac if you have enough storage space." I started the process, and had to stop it after it took up 3GB on my MBP after getting just a fraction of my photo library. There seems to be NO option to store all the data in iCloud and just thumbs on the Macbook, and NO option to set how much disk space to keep free.
In other words, Apple decides how much free disk space you're going to get?
It's bad enough that Apple overcharges for both SSD capacity and for cloud storage. But to fill up both without giving you an option to set how much space you get to use??
It should be obvious that some people buy iCloud space for the express reason that they don't have to fill up their very limited internal drive space. That's one of the major reasons for getting cloud storage, especially if you have very limited mobile storage. I don't want to keep every d@&#ed photo on my drive! Give me the option at the very least!
I am a huge Apple fan in general, but Apple has always screwed its customers this way, creating gigantic libraries (iPhoto, iTunes, Garageband, Mail, etc.) with few or no options to control it—if you want to use Apple's apps and services, they fill up the disk and you have to suffer with it. Apple chintzes on SSD capacity, demands you leave 10 GB open for memory captures, and then proceeds to cram every last bit with data you have paid to keep elsewhere. I have already been forced to buy a 128 GB SSD add-on (the Transcend works great), but now Apple is stealing away what I gained!!
Someone please tell me I am wrong here, and that I can get the Photos app to store NONE of the full-sized photos on the Mac; I will be very happy to wait for the download from iCloud, and even happier if my whole rant here is mistaken. Otherwise, Photos is nothing but an asinine headache for me, and I am wasting my money on iCloud. I will just go back to saving my photos in folders I create on backed up external storage, and Apple and their stupid new toys can go to ****.

Thanks, and sorry for the rant. It's just not the first time I have had this problem. The thing is, I bought iCloud storage explicitly for this purpose—and every time I have tried to use it, Apple has crammed every last photo onto my hard drive, and left me in the dark about how to control it. I own Photoshop, so I don't need the app so much. I primarily want to be able to keep all of my photos, the originals, online, and access them as I desire, without using massive parts of my limited drive space.
I suppose I will just cancel my iCloud and use Flickr or something like it. I would love for Photos and iCloud to work the way they obviously should—but I also know that once Apple chooses a way of doing things, you can suggest changes to Apple till you're blue in the face—they rarely turn around on stuff like this, and never in a timely fashion.

Sync problem; itune stop working during photo optimization

Hi,
Whenever I try to sync my iPad2, photo optimization window came up, and then, iTune stopped working.
Any idea why this thing is happening? Need somebody's help desperately!
Thank you in advance.
Warren

Try deleting the iTunes photo cache on your computer and then re-try (the location of it and how to delete it is described on this page http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314 )
It might also be worth rebooting your computer and resetting the iPad before re-trying : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot

How to turn off iTunes photo "optimization"???

I have been pulling my hair out trying to find a work around for this problem. I am trying to sync several hundred photos to my iPhone. I have the 32GB model so space is no issue. The problem is that when I sync the pictures to my iPhone through iTunes, iTunes "optimizes" the photos. The optimization process reduces the resolution of the photos significantly, the photos were originally taken with my iPhone's camera! so they were not very high resolution to begin with! Why does iTunes work this way and how do I turn the photo optimizing feature off?? I would really like medium or high quality images on my iPhone which I can zoom in on. I really do not like the low quality images iTunes is forcing me to put on my iPhone. There must be an option to turn off this terrible feature...

The iPhone never was intended as a photo storage device. There are hard drives and thumb drives for that. You aren't losing your original quality photos, they are on your computer in iPhoto, Aperture, etc.
Personally, I prefer the ability of the iPhone to be able to show my hundreds of photos (to which I have the original high-res originals at home in iPhoto) on the go, which is the intent of the iPhone, rather than to just show the thumbnail of a few high-res photos I may have taken with my iPhone or elsewhere. This is how the iPhone was designed.
You have 3 things you can do:
1) feedback to http://www.apple.com/feedback/iPhone.html
2) research the features of electronic devices prior to future purchases
3) get a different phone that better meets your needs.

Photos Optimize Mac Storage: When?

At what point will Photos remove the high res photos from the mac when "Optimize Mac Storage" is enabled? Honestly, I'd rather they just remove the high res from my drive for all of them immediately. But since that's not the case I'm wondering what the available free space threshold is.

I guess nobody has an ideas.

How is Photo Optimization working on your IPad 3

I have 21000 odd jpg photos on my Ipad3 64GB. Although I have managed to overcome most of the syncing problems without reducing photo size, I think they are taking up 47GB of space (39GB showing on itunes as photos + 8GB in other) this matches what is in the ipod photo cache. Which isn't being used for any other apple device and the number of files in the photocache equals the number on the Ipad.
The typical picture pixel size is 3264x2448 and average memory size on computer is 2.7MB, on the ipad it is 2.3MB. A reduction of only 15%. When I download great looking hires wallpaper photos they take up only around 0.5MB each and despite the fantastic screen I can't see that my photos look any sharper.
I know the additional compression from itunes will depend on the photo but things should average out with large numbers of photos. But for those who have managed to sync a reasonable number fo photos how does this compare with your compression.
One reason I ask is that early on in my sync efforts I was achieving a reduction of closer to 100% for up to 16,000 photos i.e. only 1MB per photo it seems to have increased after reinstalling ios itunes etc as part of the efforts to get the syncing work.
I have spoken to a number of people at Apple Support but no one knew what the optimization would/should do.
Thanks

Hello there unknown223,
It sounds like you would like to connect to a 4g network with your iPad 3. A 4g connection for your iPad depends on your provider. This article outlines which providers have a 4g connection for iPads:
iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular: About 4G LTE connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5205
iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular supports 4G LTE connectivity when used with the following carriers:
Country
Carrier
Canada
Bell
Rogers
Telus
United States
AT&T
Verizon
iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular does not support LTE in any other countries, carriers, or networks.
iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular is compatible with all carriers that support iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, with additional support for fast 3G networks, including HSPA, HSPA+, and DC-HSDPA.
Note: Data plan is sold separately. 4G LTE and fast 3G coverage is not available in all areas and varies by carrier. See your carrier for details.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care,
Sterling

Tweak photo optimization settings?

I'm trying to put an NYC subway map on the phone (don't tell the MTA!), but when zoomed even a little, it looks awful and is illegible. Obviously there's some serious image compression going on in iTunes.
The original map was 963x1248 @ 160dpi. I tried resizing it to 1445x1872 with a bit of sharpening in Photoshop. Both look great on my monitor but terrible on the iPhone zoomed. Unzoomed, they're just too small to read.
Any ideas?
thx,
rkny

bump, because i have the same basic question.
if i look in the "package contents" of the iphoto library it contains a ton of freshly generated images in the "iPod Photo Cache". this "iPod Photo Cache" takes up 8GB!!!! that is double the size of my folder of ORIGINALS?!?!?!? how can i change that? i only have an 80GB HD and i dont need 10% of that devoted to ipod duplicates?!?!?

Photo Size is WAY TOO BIG!

Once I synch a photo album I created specifically for the iphone I notice the file sizes bloat on the Iphone to literally almost 1mb per photo. I exported my photos using Picasa and resized the .jpg files so they are around 40kb per pic. This means with around 374 photos the disk size on my PC is 26MB. Once I synch using itunes to my iPhone 3g the photos now take up around 300mb on the iphone. This is totally nuts as it is inflating my pics by a ratio of almost 15 times.
I understand that itunes creates the Photo Cache folder after iTunes performs the photo optimization. I have performed some research and learned that some people think iTunes is actually converting .jpg file types to a raw .tif or .bmp type format so the iPhone (ipod or whatever as this happens on all devices) can quickly display the image and not have to use Processor power to unzip the compressed file types like.jpg.
I guess I can understand this but to me what a joke. This is really limiting the number of files I can dispaly on my iPhone and considering that the audio .mp3 format is compressed and the iPhone can handle real-time decompression of that format I think this is more of a bug or just plane old bad design.
I would like an answer from Apple on why this is done in this matter as I could store literally 15 times the pictures on my device but currently I'm getting robbed of my precious iPhone disk space.
If you have same issues as me let me know and maybe we can get some traction on this one. Thanks.

Part of the problem is that iTunes makes multiple copies of each photo in different sizes when you sync. This is to support zooming and rotating. This article:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-ipod-ph oto-pictures
has a lot of useful background info.
Alas, I think it means you won't get a solution. I guess Apple thought that with 8GB/16GB to play with, a few megabytes here and there wouldn't be such an issue

Distorted photos when syncing to Vista OS

I'm trying to sync my ipod touch with my jpeg photos on a PC with Vista OS. The photos show up on the ipod, although most are distorted with color streaks going across, different colors, etc.
I've spent a bunch of time trying to fix, and have seen this question numerous times without a solution. In fact, many people have posted answers saying cannot be done - Itunes and Vista incompatible.
The attached article would seem the natural fix, but doesn't help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306525
I cannot see "readyboost" in Vista since the ipod doesn't show up as an external drive. I'm not sure if that's the actual problem anyway.
It seems like this is indeed a compatibility issue with Vista and Itunes/ipod, i suspect the photos becoming distorted when the photo optimization is taking place, specific to whatever process Vista using via the harddrive (or readyboost)
The reason I believe this to be the case is I can create a simple work around by taking the photos on the PC and burning to a CD. Then I can point itunes to the CD to sync, and the photos are transferred perfectly to the ipod.
This is less than optimal since it takes additional steps that shouldn't be necessary, as well as limits the number of photos that can be synced to the size or a CD or DVD. I guess one can purchase an external hard drive to keep photos and sync, although also not optimal.
Seems like this should be something that the apple engineers would have figured out - I'd imagine a problem with most Vista computers. The apple support people haven't been able to figure it out - I'd imagine there's someone out there who can help.
Does anyone have a step-by-step solution to solve?

So no one has any solutions?
I've actually spoken with a number of people with the exact problem, including my brother who has the iphone and vista photo sync issues (the rainbow disorted colors.)
It's surprising Apple couldn't get their software working properly with the most current OS from Microsoft. Or maybe it isn't - I guess it's a bit harder to design software to work when you're not doing it in a closed system environment.

Photo syncing, PC

I sync my iPad with iTunes on a Windows 7 PC. When I do this, photos in folders in my Pictures folder are uploaded to the Apple-provided Photos app on the iPad. In the photo optimization (resizing) process, the order of the photos is scrambled which undoes the sequencing of the photos. Thus a pre-prepared slide show can not be moved in tact to the iPad.

If you sync from a PC then the photos will be ordered on the iPad by their capture date - from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221 :
If you are using Windows, or are not using iPhoto or Aperture on Mac OS X, you must change the Date Taken of photos to change their sorting on your device. Third-party photo-management software may be able to do this.
You might be able to chage their dates via windows explorer so that they are in the order you want

Itunes has stopped working message whenever I sync photos to my iphone

I am using itunes 10.4.1.10 (the latest) and an iPhone (4.2.10) on windows 7. I have always used itunes to sync photos to my iphone and it was working great. For the last month or so itunes stops working when it gets to the photo optimization and sync. I recieve a message that itunes has stopped working. I have deleted the ipod photo cashe folder several times with no effect. The phone syncs fine if I do not select any photos. I have tried different photo folders and the same thing happens. It seems to be volume related but it worked perfectly in the past. Please help! I love having my photos on my phone.

Same exact problem with my iPod Touch ever since updating iTunes to 10.4.1. I've reinstalled iTunes and still no progress. What the ****, Apple?

Photo Optomization painfully slow

Currently I have both a 60GB iPod video and a 4GB iPhone which I both love so dearly.
One of my biggest problems and gripes is that Photo optimization when syncing both of these devices is horribly slow. By slow I mean. 1...2...3...4...5...6...7... Next Photo (Wash, rinse, repeat).
I have a dual core 3ghz processor with ht and 8GB DDR667 F ECC DIMMs
It isn't even making a 5% dent in my processor usage. If I watch the Windows task manager every time that the counter in iTunes increments up 1 for the number image that it is on the memory will jump consumption of about 30 MB for less than a second. (No additional processes detected.)
Is there a way to fix this? Or is this another obnoxious hard coded limitation in iTunes to keep from using my processors which I so very much paid for and want iTunes to use?
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Email Photo Clarity Question

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Saving any photo from an email attachment to your iPhone photos 'optimizes' it (reduces the resolution). There was a bug in v2.2 that made the pics blurry - that was fixed in v2.2.1 so update your iPhone if you have not yet done that.

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