Help: ipad photo size

[giradman]

Hi T poet!
Can you please explain how I can discover the file sizes of the photos in the Camera Roll?
I use iPad 2.
I can see the file size of photos in Dropbox, but still I want to see the sizes in Camera Roll.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Peter - well I'm not TP (who will likely chime in soon), but not sure that the native Photo App of the iPad can show you the file size on your images located w/i that app. Now, there are other apps that can provide that information, e.g. the pic attached is a screen capture from one of my pics opened in Photogene - selecting metadata provides a lot of information, including the size, in this case just over 95 KB - hope this may help -

 

[Deleted member 247820]

Hi giradman.

Thanks for the reply.
You have almost confirmed that I cannot discover the file size without installing another app!
I am tossing up about whether to install Photogene.
Only because it seems a bit of over kill.
I will wait a day or so and depending on other people's answer, will probably give it a go.
I read all the reviews and must admit many people say it's the best!
Thanks again.

 

[twerppoet]

Hi T poet!

Can you please explain how I can discover the file sizes of the photos in the Camera Roll?
I use iPad 2.
I can see the file size of photos in Dropbox, but still I want to see the sizes in Camera Roll.
Thanks in advance.

Like Giradman, I don't know of any way to tell the size of a photo with the Photos app. I use the iPhotos app. Just open the app and browse the file you want. The info tab at the top right (when the file is being viewed) will give you file size, type, and a few other stats.

The advantage of using iPhotos for this, rather than most third party apps, is that you do not have to copy the file to the app. Being an Apple app, they cheated a bit and gave iPhotos a bit more integrations and access to the Photos library than most other apps can manage.

 

[Deleted member 247820]

Hi T Poet and G Man
Thanks for your replies.
I checked IPhotos and the reviews were not good, considering the price!
I installed Photgene and it seems pretty good and had hardly any negative press, and no problems so far, except cannot delete photos!
It is bitterly disappointing that Apple does not allow 3rd. party apps to delete photos. Just plain stupid!
This has completely spoiled Photogene for me.
What is the big deal for Apple about deleting photos?

 

[twerppoet]

iPhoto can not delete photos either. It's part of the sandboxing, I suppose.

 

[giradman]

iPhoto can not delete photos either. It's part of the sandboxing, I suppose.

Hi again Peter - I have to agree w/ TP's comment above; I also have iPhoto on my iPad - a good app that can certainly resize your images, but deletion as already stated is not possible.

Sorry that you cannot find an app to 'fit' your needs - the 'native' iPad photo app has a number of irritating limitations, e.g. creating albums w/i the app only links your images, so deletion can even be tricky w/i that app - has been to subject of a number of threads in this forum - Dave

 

[twerppoet]

Hi again Peter - I have to agree w/ TP's comment above; I also have iPhoto on my iPad - a good app that can certainly resize your images, but deletion as already stated is not possible.

I thought we were just talking about seeing what size the photo is. As far as I know there is no way to resize a photo in iPhoto, other than cropping it.

 

[giradman]

I thought we were just talking about seeing what size the photo is. As far as I know there is no way to resize a photo in iPhoto, other than cropping it.

Hi TP - OOPS! I meant to say that iPhoto can provide the 'size' of an image - agree, no way to 're-size' the pic; OTOH, Photogene can 're-size' an image using the 'export' function, if that may be of interest to Peter? I have TOO many photo apps on my iPad, likely reflecting no prefect single one for me, so can be confusing @ times. Dave

 

[twerppoet]

Hi TP - OOPS! I meant to say that iPhoto can provide the 'size' of an image - agree, no way to 're-size' the pic; . . .

No problem. I was half hoping you'd found something I hadn't. Oh well.

 

[zstairlessone]

You may be able to send pictures to yourself, select something other than full size (individual pic size is available here too) and when you receive it save it and delete the original (or delete the original before saving). This will take a while, and is a kludge, but if it gives you the option . . .

Sometimes I get the option and other times I don't, not sure the logic behind it.

 

[Deleted member 247820]

Hi T Poet and G Man.
Big thanks for your input.
My original question is well answered.
Sorry for then going off topic a bit about the "delete" aspect.
Anyway you both have helped me with that as well.
Thanks guys!

 

[Mickey330]

If you are looking for something to reduce the size of a photo on the iPad (the actual length and height), have a look at the [free] app "Photopad by ZAGG." I used it just now to decrease the size of an iPad screenshot (obviously, you can resize any picture - this is just an example). You know how big a screenshot it (esPECially on a retina iPad!). Well, here's the screen shot that's been resized to 300 x 224:



And, here's the screenshot from an app I have that shows EXIF information (size and storage size for this example):



All this was done on the iPad. So, while you do indeed make the photos smaller (so you may have to zoom in on them later), they can be sized so they take up less storage.

Just an idea....

Marilyn

 

[giradman]

If you are looking for something to reduce the size of a photo on the iPad (the actual length and height), have a look at the [free] app "Photopad by ZAGG." I used it just now to decrease the size of an iPad screenshot (obviously, you can resize any picture - this is just an example). You know how big a screenshot it (esPECially on a retina iPad!). Well, here's the screen shot that's been resized to 300 x 224:.......................

Hi Marilyn - thanks for the mention of the Photopad app - I've not kept up w/ some of the others released, so added the program to my iPad and will check out its features later - Dave

 

[Deleted member 247820]

You may be able to send pictures to yourself, select something other than full size (individual pic size is available here too) and when you receive it save it and delete the original (or delete the original before saving). This will take a while, and is a kludge, but if it gives you the option . . .

Sometimes I get the option and other times I don't, not sure the logic behind it.

Hi Zstair…
Good idea.
Photogene gives that option, and as far as I can tell is very reliable.