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Remove the delete button on a digital picture viewer to make it safe for Grandma

Step 5Fix problems with images

Probably because this thing is so cheap it has some problems with certain images. I never really identified what those problem were but my guesses include images that aren't a "normal" aspect ratio, images that are smaller than 640 pixels wide, and images that have their resolution set to 72 pixels/inch (screen resolution) rather than 300 or so pixels/inch (printing resolution). Problem images would not be displayed by the picture frame.

To fix all my images, I first renamed them to an imgsxxxx.jpg, where xxxx is a number, type format. Then I used Preview on MacOSX to crop both the width and height to 95%. The act of opening the image, cropping it, and saving it seemed to fix them. Cropping to 100% fixed some of the images but not all; losing 5% of the image on the edges seemed like a small price to pay considering this problem was driving me nuts. Automator made it a snap to do this to all 200 images I want to send to Grandma.
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Eric J. Wilhelm is the founder of Instructables. He has a Ph.D. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. Eric believes in making technology accessible through understanding, and strives to inspire others ...
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