USB photos on smart TV (Page 2): Exactly. The cropped photo (which works) is 638x1172, While the uncropped one that doesn’t is 2855x4485 which is higher than the resolution of the TV.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Screamin Scott wrote:

Looking at the images, the cropped one is likely a smaller file size. Try limiting the file size on the uncropped one and see if that does the trick

Exactly. The cropped photo (which works) is 638x1172, While the uncropped one that doesn’t is 2855x4485 which is higher than the resolution of the TV. It would be interesting if you export a .jpg at exactly the TV’s resolution (2160x3840) and see if it displays.

eplahna Loc: Sheboygan, Wisconsin

TriX wrote:

Exactly. The cropped photo (which works) is 638x1172, While the uncropped one that doesn’t is 2855x4485 which is higher than the resolution of the TV. It would be interesting if you export a .jpg at exactly the TV’s resolution (2160x3840) and see if it displays.

Maybe there's something else at play here because the photo of the boat at the dock is 4999 X 3548 and it displays!

Ah well... I think I'm on the right track.

Thank you all for your help.

Eric

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

eplahna wrote:

Maybe there's something else at play here because the photo of the boat at the dock is 4999 X 3548 and it displays!

Ah well... I think I'm on the right track.

Thank you all for your help.

Eric

Interesting. Does it display in its entirety, or is it cropped when displayed?

eplahna Loc: Sheboygan, Wisconsin

It's all there...

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

So, what are the results of resizing the problem image ...

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

eplahna wrote:

It's all there...

Hmmm... so we’ve ascertained (I think) that the TV will scale up small images and scale down images that are larger than the native TV max resolution - correct? And they’re all .jpgs, correct? The only other thing I can think of is aspect ratio - is there any difference between the ones that succeed and the ones that fail?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Somewhat related - my Vizio has access to one of the photo sites, and I could put images onto that site (whatever it is) and view them on the TV. I assume it would be like viewing them on a computer.

bbrown5154 Loc: Baltimore, MD

eplahna wrote:

I post process photos, put them on a thumb drive (USB) and try to view them on my LG smart TV. Most will not show... only a few can be viewed. I'm wondering if this a function of the way I'm post processing and if so, is there any way to avoid it? What is causing this?

I use a Nikon D750, Canon SX50, and an iPhone 8 Plus camera, and PP with Photoshop CC.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Eric

I had a similar question but it was about burning a slide show at 1080 to a DVD.
What I ended up doing, because it was cheaper and the slide show with music was output at 1080p, was to create the slide show in either Photos or View NX-i (I too have a 750 and a 6s iPhone that I used) and then export the slide show to a USB drive. Worked great and the pictures look much, much better than when I tried to burn the DVD. That being said I have a Samsung Smart TV and it recognized it and played it as soon as I plugged it into the USB port. It saves it as .MP4. Which I thought was kind of Universal support for Smart TV's but I might be wrong on that.
Edit:
Oops forgot that I've also used Lightroom to create a Slide show and it worked really well, it has more bells and whistles and ways to edit your photos in the slide show than either View NX-1 or Photos but I wasn't interested in that just a high quality photo slide show.
That being said I just saw where your using a 4k tv. As far as I know the highest output option for all of those I mentioned is 1080p or 1920x1080 resolution.
View NX-i offers "standard" settings (PC, Youtube, webservice and Advanced) I used Advanced and saved it as an mp4

bbrown5154 Loc: Baltimore, MD

Screamin Scott wrote:

What format are the final images in ? I would think they would have to be jpegs and not DNG...

starlifter Loc: Towson, MD

Dont't know about the thumb drive. I run a HDMI cable from my lap top to the TV. That way I can view what pics I want in what ever order I want.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Not a clue other than make sure you save them as JPEG's. Smart TV's aren’t very smart. If your default format for edited files is Adobe's PSD, your TV won’t recognize them. You have to export them as New File and select JPEG as the format. I do this all the time with PS Elements. I put the exported JPEG's into a folder on my PC and then copy that folder with its files to a USB drive. Elements won’t let me export the new JPEG's directly to a USB drive, only to my HD. An extra step but no big deal.

griffzky

I'm not familiar with those two cameras, but I think Quixdraw has the best solution, i.e., if the camera has an HDMI port, use that with a good HDMI cable to show the images directly from your camera. You could eliminate the bad stuff and copy the best images to a different card then show them.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

eplahna wrote:

I post process photos, put them on a thumb drive (USB) and try to view them on my LG smart TV. Most will not show... only a few can be viewed. I'm wondering if this a function of the way I'm post processing and if so, is there any way to avoid it? What is causing this?

I use a Nikon D750, Canon SX50, and an iPhone 8 Plus camera, and PP with Photoshop CC.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Eric

Be sure they are JPEGs. Ideally, they will be in 16:9 width-to-height aspect ratio, although most smart TVs display any aspect ratio. Ideally, too, they will be 3840 by 2160 pixels, or no larger than those W x H dimensions.

Apple HEIC format images are not widely supported. Be sure your iDevices save standard JPEGs. The default is HEIC.

(Settings — Camera — Formats — Most Compatible)

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

eplahna wrote:

I see... thank you... so the size in MB isn't as important here as the dimensions. Looks good, I'll give that a try... thanks again.
Eric

In digital imaging, JPEG *file size* has little correlation to the all-important *image dimensions*. Your first priority should be sizing an image in PIXELS.

Always learn how many pixels (width x height) the target device, lab, or process requires for optimal results. Then adjust JPEG quality or JPEG compression just enough to keep the file size under any stated limit.

File resolution in dpi is irrelevant. File size in megabytes may matter. Resolution in MP is somewhat to totally irrelevant. But actual image dimensions in pixels always matters!

Mark1948

Pretty much same setup here... smart tv w/jpegs... BUT I watch movies & view still w/PLEX, it was a free download for TV & PC back then (don't know now). PLEX on tv, accesses pc via Wi-Fi. Setup on pc allows user to designate a folder for stills that can be viewed on tv.