I just started playing around with photos, and I love how cool the slide shows are. I especially like the "face detection" one, (portrait I think it's called) where the program will slowly zoom into a face, or pan across it, etc. I also really like how good the pictures look, especially when the slide show zooms into them, filling up the entire screen on my wide screen TV. They look just as sharp zoomed in, plus it's nice getting rid of the black bars on the sides.

Is there any way you can save your pictures zoomed in like this? By pushing the triangle button on any one picture, you can go in and zoom on a picture to fill the entire screen (and also move it around, left/right/up/down), but so far I can't figure out how to save it that way. Maybe you can't, but it would be cool. Any one have any idea about this?

Well, I've pretty much tried everything, but it doesn't look like you can save a picture in the edit mode. However, once you zoom into one picture, you can use L1 and L2 on the control to move through pictures manually...and they will all keep in wide-screen mode. Which is still pretty cool, I guess. Would be better to just put them through the slide show that way...but until someone has a way to save these pictures, that's all I got.

Is there way to put them into the PS3 hard drive already in a wide-screen format? I know your TV can zoom, but that never quite looks right to me. Plus, the slide show zooms already...so that would be a double zoom? Hm.

Back to google I go...

Well it's a little bit of an extra step, but most computers come with some type of photo editing software. You can take the pictures you really want on your PS3 and crop them to the 16:9 format. You could crop them to 1920px x 1080px for the highest quality or even something similar in aspect ratio. I've cropped some images for my PSP which uses 480px x 270px and they displayed nicely on the PS3. Still if you want some high resolution images go with 1920x1080 pixels. Or if your TV is 720p then do something like 1280px x 720px. Hope that helps.

Well it's a little bit of an extra step, but most computuers come with some type of photo editing software. You can take the pictures you really want on your PS3 and crop them to the 16:9 format. You could crop them to 1920px x 1080px for the highest quality or even something similar in aspect ratio. I've cropped some images for my PSP which uses 480px x 270px and they displayed nicely on the PS3. Still if you want some high resolution images go with 1920x1080 pixels. Or if your TV is 720p then do something like 720px x 405px. Hope that helps.
Hey, thanks for the suggestion, eclipz. It works! Just tried it out on one picture and it looks great. I have Adobe Editor 3.1, and it took a little tinkering to crop the pixel count without making the people look short and stumpy...if you just type in to edit the pixels to 1920x1080, it doesn't look right...but if you crop using the crop tool, it doesn't alter the proportions of anything. Now if only I could remember how I did it to get exactly 1920x1080! Ha. Thanks again. It probably seemed like a simple solution to everyone, but I just thought if I cropped it like that, it would still only be kept within the SD picture size. (So I'd end up with a narrow little picture with black bars on the top, too.) But this works great.

No problem. Yeah what I meant was crop using the cropping tool. If you just resize your picture it might get squished if the aspect ratio isn't the same. I'm not too familiar with Adobe Editor but in Photoshop you can change the cropping tool specs to a fixed pixel amount. So I just set it to 1920x1080 and start cropping away. Of course if your picture is smaller in pixels (say 640x480) it will make it look blurry.

So if your picture size is smaller (ex. 640x480) use a comparable 16:9 picture size.

Oddly enough, Adobe Elements 3.0 doesn't allow you to use the crop tool with a fixed pixel amount. Just pixels/cm or pixels/inches. (So you can't just put in 1920x1080). Instead, I've experimented a little and have found that cropping the picture 26.667 pixels/inch x 15 pixels/inche works perfectly. The over all pixel count remains over 1920x1080 but that higher pixel dimention doesn't seem to affect the quality of how it looks on my TV. You can then resize the pixel count to 1920x1080 after that (without squishing anything), but it doesn't appear to make a difference in display quality.

Example: I just cropped a picture to 26.667 pixels/inch x 15 pixels/inch, and the pixel count ended up being 2584x1453. And it looks great on my wide screen TV. I guess the TV would scale the picture down automatically.

**26.667 pixels/inch is just the first number that worked when I started cropping things without a fixed pixel amount. I'm not actually so anal as to take something down to a .667 on my own! (At least I don't think I am!)

Oh, and it is actually Adobe "photoshop" Elements that I'm usuing. So maybe I can crop to exactly 1920/1080? Perhaps there's a setting I'm missing. But like I say, I'm still able to get it to work, anyway.