Vault 3
NOTE: The Photo Frame Program has been replaced by Vault 3. Click Information about Vault 3 for information about Vault 3.
Vault 3's File / Export / Export Photos to Device menu does everything that The Photo Frame Program does, and a lot more conveniently.
The Photo Frame Program (Open Source)
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Description
The Photo Frame Program scales digital photographs for display on a digital photo frame.
Download The Photo Frame Program
Running The Photo Frame Program
- Launch The Photo Frame Program.
- Click the Source Folder button and browse to the folder containing the photos you want to display on a digital photo frame.
- Click Destination Folder and specify the folder where the photos will be written. For example, I specify the E: folder, which corresponds to the SD memory card for my digital photo frame.
- Click Add Folder or Add Files to specify folders or photo files that you don't want to display on your photo frame.
- Specify the options for your particular photo frame. The default values are correct for MUSTEK PF-A702BM photo frames.
- Set the width and height values to your photo frame's native resolution.
- Specify a quality of 100% unless you need to reduce the size of the image files beyond what scaling them will accomplish.
- Check the Shuffle checkbox to permute the order of the photo files.
- Check Add Margins to add black margins when the aspect ratio of the original photograph doesn't exactly match your digital photo frame's aspect ratio.
- Click Reduce, and the photos will be reduced and copied into the destination folder.
The C#/.NET concepts illustrated by this source code include:
- Graphics File Manuiplation
- High Quality Image Scaling
- JPEG quality reduction
Requirements
This source code was developed with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The Photo Frame Program
requires .Net 2.0.
Download The Photo Frame Program