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Creating a TV Photo Viewer Album on a Floppy Disk
Use the Microsoft TV Photo Viewer software to create digital photo albums, and then save
the albums onto floppy disks. The following is an overview of the basic steps. For more
details, click
Help
in the TV Photo Viewer software.
1
Download pictures from your digital camera or the Internet, and save the pictures
on your computer’s hard disk or other storage media such as a CD-ROM.
2
If you want to edit your pictures, use Microsoft Picture It! Express or another photo-
editing program, and then save the pictures to your computer’s hard disk before
adding the pictures to your TV Photo Viewer album.
3
Start the TV Photo Viewer software.
4
Click
Add Pictures
to start adding pictures to your album, using pictures on your
computer’s hard disk or other storage media. When you’ve finished adding pictures,
click
Done Adding
.
5
Edit and arrange your TV Photo Viewer album. For example, crop or rotate a picture, add
captions to your pictures, or add a title page to your album.
6
Insert a blank 1.44 MB high-density disk (HDD) into your computer’s floppy disk
drive. (One blank disk is included with Microsoft TV Photo Viewer.)
7
Click
Create Floppy Disk
to save the pictures in your album onto a floppy disk that
you can view on your TV with your Photo Viewer device.
Notes about TV Photo Viewer albums and floppy disks
•
Once you save an album to a floppy disk, do not modify the pictures on the disk.
If you want to edit your album, save a backup copy of your album on your
computer that you can modify later.
•
For best picture quality, we recommend albums with up to 20 pictures, but you
can add as many as 40 pictures.
•
When you use the TV Photo Viewer software to create a floppy disk, the software
copies the original pictures and resizes them to 640 x 480 resolution, optimizing
the size, shape, and color depth for your TV. The software also compresses the files
on the floppy disk, which may result in lower image quality than the original
picture. Therefore, do not use the compressed copies of your pictures on a TV
Photo Viewer floppy disk to permanently store your digital pictures. Instead,
always keep your original pictures on a reliable storage media such as your
computer’s hard disk or a compact disc.
•
TV Photo Viewer albums can include pictures with several file formats: JPEG, GIF,
MIX, BMP, and TIF. All pictures are converted to JPEG format when you create an
album on floppy disk using the TV Photo Viewer software. (Note that the original
files are not modified.)
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