Hi all,
I'm pretty new to the wonderful world of Android with only a couple of days with my Dell Streak. There a couple of things that I'm trying to get used to but the native photo view is not one of them, I really don't enjoy swiping through masses of pictures from all sorts of folders. The album arts, old photo's and new photo's all mashed together into this time line thing.....anyway of viewing pictures via folders?
If anything, coming from an HD2, I thought Resco Photo Manager was an awesome app, not only was it good at viewing pictures, it also allowed me to edit pictures easily (actually draw on rather than sticking clip art onto) with a good zoom while doing so too, nice layout and folders for different pictures finished off with the ability to upload pictures to facebook all in one. So the question is....is there an Android app out there that is very similar to the Resco Photo Manager program?
I've tried AnDrawing but I can only zoom in a little and when I do so, the image becomes really really blurred even though it shouldn't as it's a high res image.
Any advice would be much appreciated!!! Thanks!!!
Sorry; in the sameboat with you!
I know how you feel, I too used to love Resco pro on my touch hd, the editing features were brilliant. I've been looking for an equivalent for my streak but have found nothing that matches it yet. I use my phones as photo viewers quite a lot and hate the way the built-in viewer displays the photos as a timeline because when I got it I downloaded all of my favorite pics -about 1500- it thinks they were all taken on the same day, searching through them is painful.
If you like editing your pics, I like Colour-Up but it's limited to the one function, you can get some good results with it though. Photoshop.com Mobile is pretty lame and more limited than the built-in editor. As for detailed drawing/editing, I've found nothing yet. I'm not sure but I'm sure I heard Resco were developing for android, but don't take my word for it!
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Adobe Photoshop Express in the market. Don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for.
There's also Picsay available, both it and Photoshop have good editing features but Picsay has a better file/open system. Neither of them are photo managers though.
Nope, photoshop is no good; it also mashes all pictures into one giant lump, and then to add insult to injury, has no zoom, and displays the highest Rez pictures like they are candid pics snapped with a cctv. Avoid like the plague!
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Well since i update it to 2.1 the pictures are grouped into the folder i have put them into and i dont mind. lol but i know what you mean loved Resco.. i hope resco make a android app hehe
the program is pretty good but i have a problem. i wanne change the backround image from my homescreen with that programm but it doesnt changes the spb mobile 3.5 backround...and in spb i just cant change 480x800 as backround
I just emailed HTC about it. I even had to send a photo I took with my Hero with time stamping enabled to show them what I meant. The only thing they can tell me is that it just isn't an option on the Evo 3D. They also told me to look on the market for an app that'll let me add that functionality. Is there such a thing?
I'm adding the same example photo I sent to HTC in this post, so everyone will know what I mean by time/date stamping.
I really don't get why it isn't a standard option.
I was going to add a poll to see how many of you out there think this should be an option added to the camera app, but I can't seem to figure out how to add a poll. lol
Isn't the timestamp simply part of the metadata tags built into the image file?
saltorio said:
Isn't the timestamp simply part of the metadata tags built into the image file?
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...what he said. Unless you actually want an old school red/orange timestamp on top of your photo? Might find an app for that on the Market, who knows?
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Unless you actually want an old school red/orange timestamp on top of your photo? Might find an app for that on the Market, who knows?
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the sample photo he posted above contains a text colored timestamp on the bottom right hand corner.
i do think it is very odd the camera app does not provide an option for a timestamp and i too have used this feature in the past and think its a good idea.
odd they didn't add that feature. i hadn't noticed until i read this post and checked my camera app .. def no option to put a timestamp on the lower right corner of the photo.
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the sample photo he posted above contains a text colored timestamp on the bottom right hand corner.
i do think it is very odd the camera app does not provide an option for a timestamp and i too have used this feature in the past and think its a good idea.
odd they didn't add that feature. i hadn't noticed until i read this post and checked my camera app .. def no option to put a timestamp on the lower right corner of the photo.
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But again, how is a time stamp on the actual photo a benefit over including the time stamp in the image file metadata?
Back when photos were on film, burning the time stamp into the photo itself was the only way to know when it was taken. But these things are digital. Metadata is a much more elegant way to track all sorts of information (like geo tags) associated with a photo, and it's how all the information is stored in the photos the EVO 3D (and pretty much every other digital camera device) takes. Most photo organization software (like most MP3 software) makes extensive use of meta tags for sorting and searching your files. And it doesn't muddy up your images to boot.
saltorio said:
But again, how is a time stamp on the actual photo a benefit over including the time stamp in the image file metadata?
Back when photos were on film, burning the time stamp into the photo itself was the only way to know when it was taken. But these things are digital. Metadata is a much more elegant way to track all sorts of information (like geo tags) associated with a photo, and it's how all the information is stored in the photos the EVO 3D (and pretty much every other digital camera device) takes. Most photo organization software (like most MP3 software) makes extensive use of meta tags for sorting and searching your files. And it doesn't muddy up your images to boot.
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to illustrate the otherside of the viewpoint you've expressed and address your question.
i guarantee not every android user understands metadata, nor knows how to use/where to find it. i find it comical imaging my parents trying to locate the metadata of a picture they took on their phone.
for those people who still print out their images and want to scrapbook/put in photo albums, they might prefer having the time/date stamped on the front of the image itself.
some people prefer timestamps printed on their photos and some people do not. having or not having timestamps on photos is a matter of personal preference and is a legit request as an option, especially given i've had the option of printing timestamps on the images i've taken with previous android phones.
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to illustrate the otherside of the viewpoint you've expressed and address your question.
i guarantee not every android user understands metadata, nor knows how to use/where to find it. i find it comical imaging my parents trying to locate the metadata of a picture they took on their phone.
for those people who still print out their images and want to scrapbook/put in photo albums, they might prefer having the time/date stamped on the front of the image itself.
some people prefer timestamps printed on their photos and some people do not. having or not having timestamps on photos is a matter of personal preference and is a legit request as an option, especially given i've had the option of printing timestamps on the images i've taken with previous android phones.
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Well then go to the official HTC Community forums and make the request.
My X10 didn't have the ability to print time stamps on the photos, neither does my wife's text messaging phone. I'm not even sure if either of our digital cameras (a Digital Rebel, and a Canon point-and shoot) have that capability. All I'm saying is people have to move with the march of technology.
And on a related note: can you imagine your parents even having an EVO 3D?
Here's something. Wouldn't it be possible to just take the setting from the most recent Sense before Sense 3 and add it to the settings in our present camera app?
I'm no programmer, (or I'd just attempt it myself, lol). Just putting it out there so maybe someone will consider it.
The reason for time/date stamping ON the photo in addition to the metadata is the fact that most people, at least in my opinion, when attempting to retrieve the date of a certain photo on the internet, would rather just see it printed right on the photo than have to download the image and look for it in the image info.
Now I'm not sure if I'm just missing it when attempting this or not, but I went to a random site, right clicked on an image and went to View Image Info, and didn't see anything at all about a date or time the image was taken. Only when I actually download the image then go to Properties>Details do I see an actual date/time.
I didn't mean for this to be a debate or anything. Just feel it's wrong not to even give the option anymore. It's not like something like that takes up a lot or space or processing power, or even time processing the photo.
I think It's cool when you need to provide a day and time for a pic that you want to upload online.
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Here's something. Wouldn't it be possible to just take the setting from the most recent Sense before Sense 3 and add it to the settings in our present camera app?
I'm no programmer, (or I'd just attempt it myself, lol). Just putting it out there so maybe someone will consider it.
The reason for time/date stamping ON the photo in addition to the metadata is the fact that most people, at least in my opinion, when attempting to retrieve the date of a certain photo on the internet, would rather just see it printed right on the photo than have to download the image and look for it in the image info.
Now I'm not sure if I'm just missing it when attempting this or not, but I went to a random site, right clicked on an image and went to View Image Info, and didn't see anything at all about a date or time the image was taken. Only when I actually download the image then go to Properties>Details do I see an actual date/time.
I didn't mean for this to be a debate or anything. Just feel it's wrong not to even give the option anymore. It's not like something like that takes up a lot or space or processing power, or even time processing the photo.
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i didn't want a debate either so i stopped replying as it was clearly off topic.
copying the settings file from a previous sense version of camera which supports the time/stamp, *could* work, assuming the current camera.apk supports time/stamping and they just forget/intentionally didnt add it to the options menu inside the camera.apk.
i dont have a previous sense phone, like the EVO, handy to pull the camera settings file from /data/data ..
on the EVO3D the settings file is: /data/data/com.android.camera/shared_prefs/com.android.camera_preferences.xml
an example adb pull command to copy it to the local computer:
adb pull /data/data/com.android.camera/shared_prefs/com.android.camera_preferences.xml c:\com.android.camera_preferences.xml
i do wonder how adding time stamping to the picture would work in 3d mode ... i wonder if that presented an issue so they scrapped it ... just speculating!
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i do wonder how adding time stamping to the picture would work in 3d mode ... i wonder if that presented an issue so they scrapped it ... just speculating!
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Ya know, I never thought of that as a potential reason for leaving it out. That's probably it too, not that we could get an official answer to it though, so speculation will have to do, but I do think you have it right.
I DID hear early on in the threads that it was possible that panorama and burst mode, among other things, weren't acting right for one reason or another, and those functions were pulled right before release. Makes sense that panorama or burst wouldn't work right either in 3D, so it stands to reason.
Still though, it would've been nice to have those options for 2D pictures. It's a shame they couldn't figure out how to disable those options when the 3D switch was flipped, if any of this is really the case even. lol
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Hello,
I'm looking for a program to change timestamps files (created, modified, and accessed)
I need it for Android, no for PC.
Problem is that after copy&paste photos and videos, stock gallery order it by created by, and i don't know why, but all videos always are first, and then my photos.
If now i take a photo, and after a video, i see in my stock gallery: last video created, last photo taken, all the other videos, and then older photos
Here you have a screenshot to see an example:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/38/screenshot2012100315365.png/
Any idea?
Using Samsung Galaxy S3
Thanks!
I really think this is a valid question and have been wondering this myself.
Hello folks!
U're my only hope. As u may noticed, Cinemagram made it to Android finally. I know there are still many clones but I love Cinemagram and the community behind it plus it's animations are in a better resolution/quality that almost all it's clones.
The problem is: It seems that Cinemagram saves the animations as MP4 files. Plus there's no direct way to save 'em on the phone. Via the share function it is only possible to share the link into a text file (or an Evernote note). When I do so, open Evernote (or the text file) and follow the link I get to the Cinemagram website where the animation is embedded as a MP4. But that's only possible from a PC. From my mobile browsers (even with desktop mode) it's just possible to view the mobile version of the website when I follow the shared link. There - surprisingly - it appears as a GIF and I can save it to my phone. The problem with this way is, that the GIF is reduced to a lower resolution than it is in the app originally.
So it would be great if one of you could make a small app, which appears in the SHARE function of cinemagram and when I use it, it converts the original MP4 (from the desktop version of the cinemagram website) and save it as a GIF on my phone.
Is that possible?
Cheers from Germany
Tarik
Alright, I'm dare to push this once.
i'm also very interested in this.
I have installed custom Beanstalk Custom ROM, one app I miss is the original Photo Editor which I can just draw and add remarks on the photo directly. Would hope any kind should would advise how I can install that in my Note 2. Take note when I go Play Store and search, it is a different version of Photo Editor. Also if anyone got any alternatives app I can make use with the same functions. Thanks and appreciate it.
photo editor from samsung app shop
Photo Editor Assistance
Hi,
You can go for PhotoViewerPro.. Its easy to use and user friendly.