5.Press “Continue Anyway” to continue the installation. MemoryFrame will not impair or destabilize XP and this is just a warning about digitally signed drivers.
6.Some versions of Windows® automate the following steps so that you may not have to perform or see each of them. The next step is INSTALL HARDWARE DEVICE DRIVERS. Select the install method for the “Digital Picture Frame”. Select “Search for suitable driver for my device” and click Next to continue installation.
7.In the LOCATE DRIVER FILES screen, select the device where the MemoryFrame “Digital Picture Frame” USB driver can be found. Insert the MemoryFrame software CD into the
8.After Windows® finds and installs the driver, the COMPLETING THE NEW HARDWARE WIZARD screen will be displayed. Click Finish to complete the installation.
9.Some older versions of Windows® may require a system restart. If so, you will see the following screen. If this screen is displayed, click on Yes to restart the system. See Figure 6.
Figure 6 – Windows Settings Change Message
Step 3: Save Image as High Quality JPEG
Use a good image editing program to save the image as a JPEG. If the image is pasted into the MemoryFrame Digital PixMaster software and the image is either too large or not JPEG format, the default Windows JPEG compression tools are used to resize and compress the JPEG image. Try to avoid having this happen by storing the image as a JPEG yourself. If you can target the size of the image, shoot for around
Figure 36 - Properly sized JPEG looks squished
Step 4: Insert the Image into a Slideshow and Send to a MemoryFrame
Either drag the 800x600 JPEG image into the Digital PixMaster or insert it using the Edit/Insert menu option. The image will appear squished in the PixMaster. This is fine. When you send to the MemoryFrame, if it has an LCD display, it will still look squished. But when you connect the MemoryFrame to a 16:9 aspect display, the image will look perfect. See Figure 37.
Figure 37 - Final Result
You may notice some color differences between the original image and the final product… this stems from the NTSC broadcast standard (Never Twice the Same Color). The best thing you can do is calibrate your 16:9 display monitor for color. You may also need to set the 16:9 display for Full aspect. 16:9 displays sometimes default to 4:3 aspect display on images coming in through a VGA input.
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