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saved photos appear blurred/out of focus

Hi y'all, I have tried to save some photos from email messages to my Photo gallery in iPhone, but all the pictures look blurred. It's like only a thumbnail was saved. Has anyone else got that experience?

iMac PowerPC G5, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Oct 13, 2008 10:37 AM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2008 1:05 PM

Does this happen with other photos in email? What was the source of the photo? Another phone, computer, etc.
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Dec 30, 2008 2:05 PM in response to ginachio

I have the same problem with my pictures, saved email pics are blurred and I deleted lots of good pictures because of this problem. I noticed my pics were going blurry the day before christmas, before christmas eve everything was fine. Now I am frustrated as saving a photo album has become a problem, and it was a feature on my Iphone that I loved.

Jan 12, 2009 3:32 AM in response to KingOfPopBAD!

Yes, you've given us a way to save pictures without the quality being affected. I've used it myself and it works (to create wallpapers, at least). It's a decent way to work around the issue.

It is not, however, a genuine SOLUTION to the problem. Pictures saved from Safari or attachments still show up as blurry in the iPhone photo album and turn up fine when transfered to my desktop. There is still a bug in the OS somewhere, and it needs to be fixed.

Mar 1, 2009 6:59 AM in response to andimac

I have version 2.2.1.
I too am noticing the odd colors, pixelation and poor quality.
This was not the case previously.

The pictures were better quality but now I no longer will use my iPhone for pictures.

If I use the camera application that comes by default, the resolution is 1600x1200 at 72dpi with 24 bit depth and 2 resolution unit.

If I use the Darkroom application, a free download from the app store, the picture is 1600x1200, @ 96dpi, 24 bit depth, no resolution unit set.

Not great but closer to the quality the pictures used to have.

Apr 17, 2009 8:30 AM in response to Pumelke

I'm still experiencing this same degradation of image quality. At first I thought that it was with images imported via an iPhoto sync, that the iPhoto optimization was the problem. I seemed to get a better result by emailing the image, as I noticed that the image quality in the email was preserved. Yesterday I seemed to get a better result with an image synced thru iPhoto. But agree it is incredible that the quality is there in the email attachment image, but degraded in the photo album.

Just hoping this gets attention in the next software revision in June...

saved photos appear blurred/out of focus

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