Digital Photographer Alert: Storing Full-Quality Photos on the iPod
When iTunes optimizes your photos for iPoddification, it streamlines the images a bit instead of copying the big, full-resolution files. But if you want, you can copy the full-size photo files. That way you can transfer them to another computer—good news if you're a photographer and want to haul around a big, print-ready photo collection.
Just follow these steps:
❶ Connect the iPod Nano or Classic and select it in the iTunes Source list. Make sure you've set up the iPod as a portable hard drive. (See Chapter 10 for details.) The short version: in your iPod's settings page in iTunes, click the Summary tab and then turn on the "Enable disk use" checkbox.
❷ Click the Photos tab in the iTunes window.
❸ Turn on the "Include full-resolution photos" checkbox.
After you sync, full-resolution copies of the photos sit happily in the Photos folder on the iPod's hard drive. (The Photos folder also has a subfolder called Thumbs that'sfull of iPod-optimized images all scrunched up in special .ithmb files; you can safely ignore these.)
Get iPod: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
