How To Load Images Onto Your Video iPod:

1. Create a IPOD IMAGES file folder on your computer
2. Scan or copy photos and documents and save them to the file
3. Plug your iPod into your computer
4. Open up iTunes.
5. From the gray menu tabs Click PHOTOS
6. Click the SYNC PHOTOS FROM box
7. Click the gray box to choose a folder from your hard drive.  (This will open a window called BROWSE FOR FOLDER.  Navigate your way to your IPOD IMAGES folder.)
8. Click on the IPOD IMAGES folder (the folder icon will open but you won’t see image files)
9. Click the OK button.
10. Click the ALL PHOTO button
11. Click the INCLUDE FULL RESOLUTION BUTTON.
12. Click the gray APPLY at the bottom right corner of the screen.

ITunes has now copied all of the photos from that folder onto your iPod.  You’ll see that happening in the box at the top of the Itunes screen.

How To View Your Images On Your iPod

1. Eject your iPod from iTunes.  The main menu will appear on iPod video screen.
2. Select PHOTOS from iPod menu
3. Select PHOTO LIBRARY to view thumbnail images
4. Scroll to the image you want to view and select it

How To View Your iPod Photos And Videos On Your Television

1. You will need:  A/V Cable for the video iPod
2. Plug one end of the cable into the headphone jack of your iPod
3. Plug the three plugs into the corresponding yellow, white & red jacks on your TV.
4. Turn on your ipod
5. From menu select VIDEOS
6. Select VIDEO SETTINGS
7. Select TV OUT and set it to “ON”
8. Click the MENU button and go back and select the video you want to watch
9. Press play
10. You will probably need to change your TV tuner to an AV input

How To Create A Photo Slideshows In Your iPod

1. Start at PHOTOS menu
2. Select Slideshow Settings. 
3. Set the time per slide (I suggest 5 seconds)
4. Select MUSIC. Select a music Playlist, or Random. 
5. Set the REPEAT and SHUFFLE PHOTOS settings to OFF.
6. Select TRANSITIONS  (I like Dissolve)
7. Navigate your way back to the PHOTOS page
8. Select the folder of photos you want to play as your slide show.
9. When you see the list of thumbnails and the yellow box is around the first image you’re ready to go so hit play. 

So now you can gather the family around the television set and share your photos, and videos in big, living color with your Video iPod

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Here are some research strategies from Episode 23.

Proactive listener Donna wrote this week to ask what the best format and resolution was for saving pictures to be viewed on the Video iPod. 

For photos to be viewed on a television screen, save them as JPEG files at 300 dpi resolution.      

For photos strictly viewed on your iPod, resize them to reduce their ipod storage requirements.  Here’s how: 

To Reduce Image Size: 

1. Copy and paste the photos into your IPOD IMAGES folder (see Episode 22 re: folder) 
2. In Windows XP, click MY COMPUTER icon on your desktop 
3. Go to your IPOD IMAGES FOLDER 
4. Click a photo that you want to downsize so that it’s highlighted. (To highlight all the images click on the first image, hold down the SHIFT key and then click the last image in the folder.)   
5. Look to the blue side bar on the left under FILE AND FOLDER TASKS and click on EMAIL THIS FILE which will open up a little window called SEND PICTURES VIA E-MAIL 
6. Make sure the MAKE ALL MY PICTURES SMALLER button is selected 
7. Click OK 
8. An email message will open with all the photos you selected attached, but at reduced sizes.  
9. Double Click on the first image to open & view it in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer 
10. At the bottom of the window click the COPY TO icon. 
11. Keep the original file name and click SAVE 
12. It will ask you if you want to replace the original.  Click OK 
13. Follow that procedure with each photo.  

I was able to reduce my original 1.24 MB photo to just 141 KB.  This saves LOTS of room on your iPod!