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Storing photos on Garmin 265WT

 
Mon, 09/27/2010 - 8:40pm

I've been dragging location and family photos from my PC to my Garmin and realized that there is no need to use large filesize pics to display photos on my Garmin.

The Garmin screen is 4" by 2.2".

I edited my 12 MP photos that are about 5 MB in filesize (jpg) and scaled them down to 4"x 2.2" in imagesize and changed the resolution from 300 dpi to 90 dpi.

The resulting pictures are about 10% of the original filesize. Quite a savings in Garmin disk space. I can probably do better but it's OK for now. The quality is still sharp even when zooming in.

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Ihor
Mon, 09/27/2010 - 8:44pm

Garmin is limited

Reducing the resolution of the pictures is the right thing to do and the pictures will look just as good. The memory and processor on the Garmin is limited, and I want mine to work on navigation.

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