When it comes time to transfer your photos to your digital frame, it’s important to understand the format of the photo files. Using the right file format for your digital photo frame pictures can mean more space on your memory card and better looking photos on the frame’s display.
Chances are your digital camera, whether it be a point and shoot camera or a digital SLR, shoots photos as JPG files. This is great, as JPG, or JPEG, files are often the best format to move photos around as. JPG files varry in size, but often don’t contain a lot of excess information that makes the file sizes larget than they need to be.
If you do use an SLR, make sure to check out the file size of the photos, as SLRs often shoot rather large multiple-MB files that will take up most of you digital memory card if you don’t resize them. This can be done in almost any photo editor, and you should always trim your digital photos down to the standard 4×6 size if you want to get more of them on your frame.
Many frames also support TIFF anf GIF file formats. I recommend converting your TIFF and GIF files to JPEGS if at all possible You can do this with a photo editor like Photoshop, as well. TIFF files often lack any compression and this results in large file sizes. And with GIF, while they remain smaller, the file size is less recognized and may not play on all devices like JPGs will.
Overall, I recommend JPGs. You will be happier and so will your guests, who will get to see more photos on the same frame.
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